Six months after the disappearance and death of Vanessa Guillén, Army changes how missing soldiers are reported
Haley Britzky
Updated:
Oct 14, 2020 2:00 AM EDT
After a summer of seemingly-never-ending bad news regarding missing soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, the Army is changing its policies for how missing soldiers are reported.
In a new action plan sent out to Army leaders on Tuesday — which was obtained by Task & Purpose and details the service’s path forward on its new number one priority, people — Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, Chief of Staff Gen. James McCVonille, and Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Grinston say that new guidance on reporting missing soldiers will be released in “the coming weeks.â€
“In the coming weeks, [the Department of the Army] will publish guidance on absent soldiers to clarify that when one of our teammates fails to report for duty, we will consider them missing and take immediate action to find them,†the action plan says.
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-missing-soldier-guidelines-vanessa-guillen
