7 soldiers have died in the Fort Hood area so far this year

I’ve sat looking at this post for a good 20 minutes, wrote 5 responses trying to sound professional and not step on toes but sometimes you have to Chuck it In the fuck it bucket.

Currently stationed here, this is also my first duty station in the Army after 5 years with the Marines. And it a perfect storm of trash. Killeen is a trash city, crime is high, it’s on the list as hot spots for trafficking in persons, drug use is through the roof and it all spills into Fort Hood.

The composition of trash kids being let into the military now and trash leadership staying here forever chasing OER/NCOER and the ever present good ol boys club over works, kills morale and promotes pick and choose punishments and favoritism.

The complete lack of fear of a deployment leads to insane amounts of complacency that trickles down through the ranks allowing for insane training schedules, long work hours all so some O3 and higher can stack his OER with as much irrelevant or repetitive training and leave after their command time.

Officers micromanage and taking away the power of the NCO leads to poor NCO development which also trickles down, rank is handed out with our prejudice and we are raising a generation of spoiled NCO who do not have the experience nor pride developed while earning the rank.

Sorry went off on a tangent but that and more leads to complacency, soldiers getting involved in wrong crowds, soldiers trying to cram all their free time into 2 days off after 3 months in the field.

It is a huge post with III Corps HQ and I bet if you looked into deaths at other similar sized posts, you would see the same. One of the biggest issues with Army posts is they are old and the cities around them often old with multiple problems. I would not live in Killeen, TX if it was free.

I don't know