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Decisions on whether to prosecute members of the U.S. military for sexual assault or harassment would be handled outside the chain of command under a measure members of Congress proposed Wednesday that is named for Texas soldier Vanessa Guillen who was slain by a fellow soldier.

Congress is launching an investigation into recent incidents and the leadership response at Fort Hood after 28 soldiers from the U.S. Army base in Texas died this year

The commander of the U.S. Army’s Fort Hood is being removed from his position and will no longer assume command of a division at Fort Bliss, according to a U.S. Army statement released Tuesday. Maj. Gen. Scott Efflandt was set to take over the 1st Armored Division soon. Now the Army will announce who will take over the division...

Police in Texas say a body found near Fort Hood is likely that of a soldier missing since last week

Sgt. Elder Fernandes, 23, a Fort Hood soldier who has been missing for five days, was recently transferred to a different unit because he was the victim of “abusive sexual contact,” U.S. Army officials said Saturday. “We can confirm there is an open investigation of abusive sexual contact involving Sgt. Fernandes,” Lt. Col. Chris Brautigam, a 1st Cavalry Division spokesman,...

The U.S. Army is asking for the public’s help in a search for another missing soldier from Fort Hood.

Flags from the U.S., Texas and Mexico flew at half staff Friday as a white, horse-drawn carriage embellished with white flowers brought in the custom green casket that carried the remains of a slain soldier.

Fort Hood has one of the highest rates of murder, sexual assault and harassment in the Army, Secretary Ryan McCarthy said Thursday during a visit to the Texas base.

U.S. Army officials said Tuesday that a Fort Hood soldier drowned at the same lake near the Texas base where another soldier’s body was found last month.

U.S. Army officials say the body of a Fort Hood soldier was found near the Texas army base, marking the third time in a month that a Fort Hood soldier’s body has been discovered

Artists in Washington, D.C. are honoring Vanessa Guillen’s memory with a mural in Columbia Heights. 20-year-old Guillen, a soldier who vanished from Fort Hood, was found dead after being killed by a fellow soldier, military officials said.⁠

U.S. Army officials say they will begin an independent review of the command climate at Fort Hood following calls for a more thorough investigation into the killing of a soldier from the Texas base

Army investigators have identified the body of Spc. Vanessa Guillen, a soldier who vanished from Fort Hood more than two months ago, according to a lawyer for Guillen’s family.

Federal and military investigators say a soldier missing since April was killed and dismembered by a fellow soldier stationed at the same Texas base. The revelation followed demands for the Army to release details about its investigation of the disappearance.

The two suspects in the disappearance of 20-year-old Spc. Vanessa Guillen, who has been missing since April, were identified by authorities on Thursday.

While authorities haven’t confirmed the identity of remains found Tuesday, the family of the missing Fort Hood soldier said Wednesday Vanessa Guillen’s body had been found. “My sister’s no joke, “ said Lupe Guillen, the soldier’s sister. “My sister’s a human being. And I want justice.”

As law enforcement approached Tuesday night, a suspect in the Fort Hood disappearance of 20-year-old Pfc. Vanessa Guillen took his own life in Killeen, officials with the base confirm Wednesday morning. A second person, a civilian, is now in the custody of the Texas Rangers as officials continue to investigate human remains found on the post Tuesday.

Unidentified remains were found in Killeen Saturday afternoon, within walking distance of the site where the skeletal remains of a missing Fort Hood soldier were found a week earlier.

The U.S. Army, which has come under criticism by the family of missing Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen, is speaking out, addressing questions about the investigation into her disappearance more than two months ago.

The Army is now convinced there was “foul play” involved in the two-month-old disappearance of Fort Hood Soldier Vanessa Guillen, Rep. Sylvia García, D-Texas, said Tuesday.