Another Female Soldier Died at Fort Hood. The Base Said Nothing.

I'm with you. Hood and Bragg seem to be the center of problems....

Hood is close to the middle of nowhere Texas.

Gotta wonder. When I was there 85/86 there was a known problem with E-7s (according to the chaplain). One dimension was sexual harassment from married Platoon SFCs and their E-6 protégés in-training. I am grateful to have been warned about a problem by fellow SMs in the unit when I arrived by fellow SMs. Didn't take long to learn the truth of that warning. Of course not cooperating meant getting screwed in ways other than physical, and/or targeted by the E-6s in-training. The problem probably spread and escalated. Apparently the problem has escalated to murder . . .
Male troops have been targeted too, and have ended up dead, but the news doesn't ever add a sexual dimension to those reports. Perhaps it is open season on anyone these days after the don't ask don't tell policy is no longer in force - added to tran confusion (i.e. from folks who are not trans).
I suggest defensive solution would be for some amount of martial arts training to be mandatory - at least for female SMs.
When you know what to do that works and does not require excessive brawn, there is more chance of preventing a problem and/or of shining a needed light on it when a recipient of a no nonsense "no" needs treatment for some type of injury.