Ninety-six percent of those deaths took place stateside.
Fewer than 20 were from natural causes.
All the rest, includingmacabre or unexplained deaths, homicides, anddozens of drug overdoses, were preventable.
Soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division line up to board a plane in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in 2021.Allison Joyce/AFP/Getty Images
The Army has repeatedly stonewalled grieving families seeking answers.
AFTER VANESSA GUILLEN, 20,went missingon April 22, 2020, she was listed as AWOL.
Months later, Guillens remains were discovered in shallow graves about 20 miles from Fort Hood.
This supervisor created an intimidating, hostile environment, says the report.
Guillen was bludgeoned to death at Fort Hood by Army Specialist Aaron Robinson.
In August last year, shewas sentenced to 30 years in prison.
The audit which was completed earlier this year determined this is not the case.
Unit leaders didnt report 74 percent of Soldier absences correctly in Army personnel systems, according to the audit.
The military is fixated on figuring out if the soldiers absence is voluntary or involuntary.
Thats inconsequential to the problem, she tellsRolling Stone.
We learned how to take care of these problems in kindergarten.
Call the police and make a report.
Its a failure of the Army.
The Army should be transparent but its a foreign concept for them, says Braley-Franck.
Without transparency, were never going to see positive change.
IN THE LAST DECADE, scores of troops perhaps hundreds havedied or gone missingat Fort Hood/Cavazos.
In 2020 alone, 13 soldiers at the base killed themselves and five, including Guillen, were murdered.
The Army ruled her death a suicide.
Ruizs familydisputed the findings.
Such requests, if ever fulfilled, generally take months, if not years, to be completed.
