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American Military News by Cody Shepard - The Enterprise   September 27, 2020

Massachusetts lawmakers who toured Fort Hood found a ‘toxic culture of fear, intimidation, harassment and indifference’

Fort Hood soldiers told members of a congressional delegation that suicides are treated as an inconvenience, they aren’t provided resources to live safely and in healthy conditions and victims who report sexual assaults are harassed by superior officers.

A congressional delegation, including three representatives from Massachusetts, traveled to the U.S. Army’s Fort Hood base in Texas last weekend to investigate an “alarming number” of deaths at the base this year, including Sgt. Elder Fernandes. The Brockton native was missing from the base for more than a week before he was found hanged from a tree about 28 miles away in Temple, Texas, on Aug. 25.

Authorities say Fernandes hanged himself, but his family disputes that there was no foul play involved in his death.

U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch, a Massachusetts Democrat whose district includes Brockton, first visited the base while Fernandes was still missing in hopes he could help the soldier’s family get answers regarding his disappearance.

“The Army is a learning organization. When they have a problem, you know it. They respond robustly. There’s an urgency. There’s a well-defined issue and they get right at it,” Lynch said Wednesday during a virtual news conference. “I did not see any of that in my first visit to Fort Hood. There was a lack of seriousness, a lack of attention, a lack of focus. Some of the officers, at the very top, were casual about what was going on there.”

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American Military News by Cody Shepard - The Enterprise   September 27, 2020

Massachusetts lawmakers who toured Fort Hood found a ‘toxic culture of fear, intimidation, harassment and indifference’



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