Shooting at Fort Hood? Again?
According to KCENTV, there’s a possible shooting on Fort Hood. But I don’t see anything anywhere else. Fort Hood is locked down. Here’s the live feed;
kcentv.com – KCEN HD – Waco, Temple, and Killeen
6:18 PM: Bell County Sheriffs reported to CNN that there’s an active shooter on Fort Hood. Suspect is white male with a .45 cal pistol.
“They got some kind of shooting incident going on. They haven’t told us anything. It was on post and being handled by the military. Fort Hood has not asked for any assistance,” said Lt. Donnie Adams with the Bell County Sheriff’s Office.
6:29: KAKE reports one person dead and others injured.
6:31: Fort Hood Tweet;
7:11 PM: CNN says the shooter is dead (not clear how he was killed) also others are 15 injured. Remember they told us Hasan was dead initially, too.
Category: Breaking News
Praying for those on base. Report says two in ER thus far from FOX News.
Shooter moving to more than one building including Darnall Medical Center. Pentagon through CNN News.
I was about to come on to tell you guys about this, just heard about it on Mark Levin. From what I heard, they were taking casualties in the hospital and the battle simulation center. I can’t say I’m familiar with Army bases, but I’m guessing both of these areas feature the least amount of guards, and that’s why the shooter targeted them. The gunman is still at large.
God help those guys down there; here’s hoping the situation calms down, the wounded are treated quickly and with success, and that the culprit is brought to swift justice.
Jonn-
I emailed you but couldn’t tell if it was DUSA or my MOS moniker…the Blaze is saying domestic terror. I wonder if it’s that dude they lost who targeted Ft. Hood. I lived right across from DARMC.
Saying prayers because I wish I could find the bastard terrorizing our troops. Mr. President…it’s fucking terror. Empty suited bastard.
Prayers out to the injured.
This wouldn’t be a problem if every military installation ordered all personnel to be always armed, whether in uniform and on duty, or in mufti and away from the installation.
That is standard operating procedure for the Israel Defense Force.
If any soldier, sailor, marine, or airman cannot be trusted with a loaded firearm, then they shouldn’t be retained in the ranks of our military services.
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Fort Hood, Texas was my last assignment in the United States Army, where I received my Honorable Discharge, when serving as a Cavalry Scout, i.e. Armored Reconnaissance (MOS 11 D 20) in CSC, 1/7thCavalry, 1st Cavalry Division.
Fort Hood is also where I graduated from III Corps NCO Academy, got married, injured my back, got tuberculosis, and was signed to a recording contract with Peach Music Productions in Marietta, Georgia, and was recorded at Peppermint Studios in Youngstown, Ohio.
Agreed. This was my response on FB earlier: (WARNING: rage, vitriol and foul language ahead):
https://www.facebook.com/hagagaga/posts/10203252677305243?comment_id=72808187&offset=0&total_comments=18¬if_t=share_reply#!/robert.ries.90/posts/10202612782393282?stream_ref=10
Just heard they say the shooter is dead, thank god they learned from the mistake the first time and killed the guy now!!!
Self inflected wound at last report. Perhaps he popped himself when the cavalry showed up. Willing to shoot the unarmed, but unwilling to be shot at.
INFLICTED, not inflected.
Something I can un-lurk for.
Went down about 1/4 mile from me; don’t know much more then what’s on the news. Was just sitting in my office when I heard tons of sirens outside, then got the post-wide notification to shelter in place.
Current reports at 1815 local are 2 shooters, 1 dead 1 active, with 8 people shot and 1 killed. Happened at the Medical BDE HQ; also heard a report about something at the Battle Simulation Center but most of the emergency vehicles are heading past us toward the Med BDE.
SIGNALCAT:
Are you ina Signal unit?
Which one?
Before I transferred over to the Cavalry, I was a Field Radio Relay and Carrier Equipment Repair Specialist (MOS 31 L 20) in HHS, 16th Signal Battalion, 13th Corps Support Command (COSCOM).
My wife and I lived in Post Housing at Walker Village (which may no longer exist – – – even back then, it was old).
Nothing on the local news about it. But bodaprez is in town on a fund raiser and the streets are blocked off for His Presence and Cavalcade.
I’m going to gag.
Now bodaprez says ‘we’re heartbroken’.
I want to know ‘who’ is ‘we’? Does he have a mouse in his pocket? His response resonates with insincerity.
He thanked the foursome in front of him for allowing him to play through so he could read the prepared statement and comment on the shooting
Anymore, I feel safer anywhere downrange where my CCW Permit is valid vs. on a CONUS Military Installation. The high and mighty “Brass Asses” and their bootlicking staffers inflict every bit of disarmament on Personnel as they can making it a free-fire zone for any sickass perp that wants notoriety.
WTF is a bodaprez?
B O da president = bodaprez.
Ya’ mean B. Hussein 0bama,or B-HO for short?
Take your pick.
It’s a childish name for the current President of the United States. See past examples like Chimpy McFlightsuit, Shrub, etc.
I prefer “president mom-jeans”. It sums up that entire administration quite succinctly.
“Bodaprez” (n) A euphemism for an empty suit in the Oval Office who seems to lose all but the most basic grasp of the spoken English language when the teleprompter takes a shit. Also refers to a hypocritical rat-bastard who tells everybody else that they need to make tremendous personal and financial sacrifices for the greater good while sending his privileged shrew of a wife on taxpayer-funded vacations every weekend to the tune of several million dollars per hour. Also a former member of Congress who made his career by voting “present” as much as possible. Also a “leader” who is usually too busy playing golf to do his Goddamn job. Also an incompetent numbnut who blames all of his fuckups on his predecessor. Also a socialist jerkoff who rules by executive fiat “because he’s the Prez” and wipes his ass with the law of the land. Also an anti-American idiot with delusions of genius, who calls it “workplace violence” when an outspoken Moslem known to the FBI to be an AQ sympathizer walks into a building on an Army post and starts shooting at everybody in sight while shrieking “allahu ahkbar!”
Syn: Glorious Leader, Obamessiah, asshole-in-chief, SCOAMF, Obumbles, the Obamadon, B-HO, Moochelle’s ladyboy, President Momjeans, Vladimir Putin’s bitch, the asshole who makes Jimmy Carter look like Teddy fucking Roosevelt
Other: Beautiful! Well said, all bases covered.
“Anonymous” = Gutless puke to afraid to identify himself. A bedwetter, douchebag, asshole, loser. GFY.
I wish I could add to that TOW. You said all I was thinking and then some.
DING! DING! DING!
Quarter size shot group at 100 meters, give the man a Gurkha Black Beauty and a Guiness!
Stay safe, Signalcat.
Looks like another case of workplace violence
“A shooting at Ft. Hood that reportedly left three injured Wednesday was a “soldier on soldier” incident without any terrorism link, a senior Department of Homeland Security source told FoxNews.com.”
Lookie. Lookie. They all ready have the story line running. Damn near as quick as Benghazi—and equally as trustworthy at this point.
Yeah, they haven’t finished the chalk outline around the guy’s body, but they know it wasn’t terrorism.
Almosty as if they helped script it.
Anymore, I wouldn’t put anything past President Mom-Jeans and/or the Clintons.
The leftists have been trying for a half-century to portray ALL veterans as damaged goods, and since 2009, the current administration has been hoping to add a diagnosis of PTS as a means of banning veterans from possessing firearms.
Yeah, I know I sound like I ought to be wearing a tinfoil hat, but this same administration has steadfastly refused to link Hasan with terrorism, even though he said he got his ideas from Awlaki. To them, it’s a “workplace incident”. Right. They also claim he killed 13, but in fact he killed 14. One of the soldiers he killed was pregnant.
Anyway, I’m steamed about this. Our soldiers deserve the right to carry on post to protect themselves from crap just like this.
I’ll be quiet now…….
3 + shooter dead from CNN
Yeah looks like USAToday is reporting on it as well.
Shooter SPEC Ivan Lopez
Can we run this shooter in Army On-line?
Latest: One deat, 14 injured
And on ‘Breaking news’: Editor’s note: Federal law Enforcement officials tell NBC News that there is no connection between the shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, and a report of a lookout notice sent to local law enforcement last weekend. – Stephanie
OK, I’ll be the first to say it – the “in” crowd will call it terrorism if it suits their agenda to do so. In other words, if it is remotely connected to what we sane folks would call terrorism, they will call it something else. If it really is something else, they will call it terrorism.
Truck driver MOS.
Where is the surfer in chief at? Another vacay in Hawaii?
If it was a crowd of welfare flunkies or illegal aliens being shot up, B. Hussein 0bama would have his [In]Justice Department out in full force at light speed to deal with it, but it’s vets, a crowd he couldn’t care less about, so thus he MIGHT issue a statement as soon as he’s done playing golf!
He’s at a fundraiser in Chicago.
Thoughts are with the victims and their families. I am just heartbroken and furious that our troops aren’t allowed to protect themselves on home soil.
I heard Ivan Lopez earlier. But there’s none at Ft Hood according to AKO. There’s one retired in Tucson.
Because it was near COB WONDER IF AN ARTICLE 15 went downhill
If this turns out to be like the last one …
The notion is all over the news … Let’s strike now FED Vet Safety Act … Cops active and retired have it.
Federal Concealed Carry Weapns Permit for all qualified active, reserve and retired Mil personnel.
AMEN TO THAT!!
That will never happen the, the criminals who run this country don’t want Americas veterans armed. There is a better chance of legislation being passed to ban all veterans from owning weapons of any kind.
Kinda doubt that, Cooter Brown.
However, IMO it’s not beyond possibility that our “liberal brethren” might try for a ban on anyone who has ever been diagnosed or treated for mental illness of any type – including PTSD – as a knee-jerk reaction.
OK … God Bless those lost, wounded and the Fort Hood community at large.
Sending light, love and prayers to all the Soldiers and families at Fort Hood…
I’m not surprised that AQ has been increasing their recruiting campaign to target potential converts who aren’t “Arab” or “Middle Eastern/South Asian” in appearance. We’re fighting the same problem in the Philippines with the Balik Converts who hook up with the networks led by Khalil Pareja and Ahmed Santos. It’s not brain surgery, instead of guys who look like Fallujah University alumni they now have guy with names like John Thomas Booker, Jose Padilla (the dirty bomb guy, remember him?), and John Walker Lindh (among so many others) that can slip through security undetected. And, because our new-found PC nature makes it next to impossible to dig into what sect of Islam these converts have decided to follow, we have no way of knowing who’s adhering to hard-core militant Wahabbist or Salafist ideology.
Been enjoying the commentary from COL West, one of my favorite people walking among us. (Can I claim that publicly? Dare I risk having the “racist” claim refuted?)
Anyway. His take on it is much more interesting than what most others have to say.
Meanwhile, that hollow statement from the poser in chief was sickening. No comfort. No sincerity. Nothing but hot air. Ick.
Summary as of Wednesday 2300
From statement by LTG Mark Milley that started at about 2230.
Shooter went into a medical building, fired shots, got into a vehicle, fired more shots, went into a second building, fired more shots, went to the parking lot, was engaged and committed suicide.
Soldier died of a self-inflicted shot to the head
Probably not terrorism, not ruling it out
Four killed — shooter plus three others
16 injured
All were military.
Shooter was male, was being treated for behavior, health, and mental health issues
Served four months in Iraq in 2011. He was not injured in combat and had not been awarded an purple heart.
Weapon was a .45 caliber Smith & Wesson pistol. the weapon was not registered on post.
Shooter arrived at Ft Hood in February from another post in Texas
Injuries were gunshots, glass blast, and jumping over a fence
The shooters body is in a parking lot
Shooter was approached by a female military police officer, he reached under shirt and pulled out his weapon, she engaged him, he shot himself.
Shooter was married and has a family in the local area
He was not diagnosed with PTSD, they were in the evaluation phase of that.
LTG Milley does not want people carrying concealed weapons on post.
“LTG Milley does not want people carrying concealed weapons on post.”
Screw Miley. Being a base CO under this administration, he’s gotta be another boot licking Dempsey.
Would I be incorrect to assume that the good general’s office and residence benefit from visibly-armed security personnel?
My kids have drill this weekend so thinking about how this may affect them and what they do. My son has a concealed carry permit but of course, can’t take his gun on base, even though he carries everywhere else.
Since we live in the same school district as Columbine, this kind of thing always brings it all back.
Our kids and our troops should not be trapped in gun-free sitting duck zones.
They must have scrubbed Lopez’ name off of AKO before they released it, because they’re now saying he was stationed at Hood. At least there was a good gal with a gun there.
If he PCSed in Feb, is it too big a stretch to think AKO hadn’t updated yet?
What’s the take on Spec. Lopez’s alleged PTSD/ traumatic brain injury?
He spent 4 months in Iraq (which is four more than me)- did they send him home early?
This is just is awful. May those who were killed rest in peace and those who were hurt heal quickly. And when can we let more Soldiers carry – at least those in leadership positions and those who control access points.
OK … On the record:
This is my read and I am typically fairly close each time.
This 34 year old Specialist (clue) who had an MOS in and around Truck Driver (clue) that deployed for only 4 months (clue) was being treated for disorders including depression and mental illness (clue) brought an unauthorized weapon (clue) on to the post killing 3 and wounding over 15.
He had problems long before the US Army. I assert mommy and daddy issues as evidence by his station in life as compared with his age (clue). I also believe statements from his family will be like, “he needed help and the US Army was not providing it”.
He is probably in my opinion just another dirt bag with a gun who could not man up and square away his sea bag. We know who these people are and often we are afraid to do and or say anything about it.
Finally, I also believe the findings will show … Leadership failed to take proper action.
Several years ago I had a selected Chief who got in serious trouble with a DWI on his beloved Harley.
We went to his house, collected his guns and the keys for his Harley. I told him, “when this is all over we can all ride to the range and go shooting … Until then we are going to keep you out of anymore possible trouble”.
It worked … He was pinned CPO … He appreiated it!
It is called Intrusive Leadership and it should be employed when dealing with troubled subordinates.
Carry on!
Too early to make any determinations on anything regarding this individual, and why they did what they did yesterday.
Plenty of 88M’s had their vehicles blown out from under them, and a good number of them have seen combat just as upclose as many of the “Combat MOS’s” have.
4 months in Iraq, could mean he got hurt and had to be evacced, or that he cracked while there and had to be evacced, or that something back home happened and he had to be returned to the states…
Who knows, maybe he had pre existing conditions, maybe his daddy “loved” him too much and mommy not enough, maybe he caught his wife banging the neighbor, maybe he was just nucking futs altogether from the get go and it just remained hidden.
We don’t know and likely will not really know because he is dead now.
so maybe we should deal in knowns, not wild ass guesses and assumptions… like all the freaking morons out there regurgitating the Crazy Combat veteran with PTSD idiocy they have seen come out of Hollywood and the antiwar crowd.
I have a nephew stationed there on Ft Hood. This shit stresses me out and I want answers as much as the next guy. I will wait for the answers to come.
I just provided some of the answers …
The findings will show …
JUST REPORTED: Self-reported TBI (clue) coupled with PTSD evaluation (clue) … His eyeball was on a payday and his plan was not working out!
I assert the findings will show that the only possible brain injury this failure of a Soldier could have received is from a slap to the head from his SGT for being a dum ass!
I am heartbroken that this is happening again. But I also have a lot of questions. This guy apparently served only 4 months in Iraq? Why such a small amount of time? Clearly something is up with that.
I’m assuming he only did four months in Iraq because he was there for when we were leaving. There was nothing going on there at that time to get PTS from.
Yea, but he could have been sent home early for some reason.