One troop member, August Whitlock, recalled that when he left Vietnam, the soldier processing his papers asked if he had been in any major battles.
The latest attack bears a number of sad resemblances to the 2009 massacre at the same base, in which Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan walked into a soldier processing center and opened fire on a group of troops preparing to deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Thirteen people are dead and 31 are wounded after a horrific shooting Thursday at Fort Hood's soldier processing center.
He told CNN: "More than one shooter fired shots in our soldier registration processing centre and the house theatre at Fort Hood".
This was a major port for processing soldiers who were being shipped to Europe, so a lot of people have ties to Fort Hancock.
Following World War II she worked processing American soldiers.
In "I Want You," robot soldiers execute unison maneuvers while processing draftees.
And as recently as last Tuesday, a National Guard unit from Massachusetts, C Company of the 181st Infantry, arrived for "soldier readiness processing," said Ms. Nisbet, the post spokeswoman.
was training soldiers on how to help veterans in processing paperwork, according to The Associated Press.
