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SSG Dennis R.
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I arrived at Ft Hood in late Sep '71, fresh out of Vietnam. Killen back then was a mean little Army town. Hood was chaos. There were shortages of everything except new folks arriving daily. Lots of racial strife and violence. I was there for 3 years & went to Korea. 13 months later I returned for another 4 years. It was still wild & crazy. I left in 1980 for Germany & never went back to Hood for any reason.
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SGM Joel Cook
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I agree with your accessment of Killeen and Fort Hood. I arrived there in Dec of 1979 as a PFC and racial tensions were incredibly high. Something I had never experienced prior. I stayed there for about a year and there were two huge race riots that cleared out the barracks of two battalions because some moron played the song, Disco Sucks at high volume on a stero. It took a platoon of MPs over an hour to sort it out. It was never reported in any type of media so it was like it never happened. Then a week later the same guy did exactly the same thing again. I volunteered for duty in Korea and stayed there for four years. Much better environment for race relations but very hard duty in 2 ID. So I re-enlisted after 18 months for 8th Army down south. I went back to Fort Hood in 1984 and it had improved greatly and I liked it there very much. In the past two years it almost seems like a serial killer has been taking out young soldiers with Hispanic family names. Still no arrest in the murder of PV-2 Wedel-Morales over 10 months ago.
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PO1 H Gene Lawrence
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Good news.
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