Fort Hood soldier found dead behind barracks

[diehardblue]

A 26-year-old Fort Hood soldier was found dead Saturday behind his barracks, according to military officials.

The soldier was identified as Spc. Maxwell Hockin, who was assigned to 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. He entered the Army in March 2017 as a combat engineer, Fort Hood officials said Wednesday.

Hockin had been at the Texas base since July 2017, where he was assigned to the 91st Engineer Battalion.

"The entire Saber family is devastated by the loss of our true teammate and friend Specialist Maxwell Hockin," Lt. Col. Patrick Sullivan, commander, 91st Engineer Battalion, said in a statement Wednesday. "He had an outstanding work ethic, was a mentor to his peers, and was always willing to help out the team. He will truly be missed. Our thoughts and our prayers are with Maxwell's family during this difficult time."


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fort-hood-soldier-found-dead-behind-barracks/ar-AAPtES4?ocid=mailsignout&li=BBnb7Kz

[Arazi]

1. Fort Hood again. Something is really fucked up there

At least 150 dead soldiers there in the past 5 years or so iirc. Probably more now since I last looked it up after Vanessa Guillen was murdered.

The top brass have a lot to answer for. This is fucked up

[blogslug]

2. What the hell is going on at Fort Hood?

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/inside-the-rash-of-unexplained-deaths-at-fort-hood

The numbers are distressing. Last year, at least 39 Fort Hood soldiers died or went missing. Thirteen killed themselves. Five were murdered. Eleven of the deaths remain unresolved—some legally; others for the victims’ families. The 2020 numbers add to ongoing mysteries, including a 2016 case where a corpse’s hyoid, the U-shaped neck bone typically examined to determine whether strangulation has occurred, was missing. These figures eclipse American casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq in the same year. The suicides, which reportedly jumped by as much as 20 percent across the military last year, work out to a rate of one soldier a month. And yet: The data is not really out of the ordinary for U.S. military bases. Last December, a Special Forces soldier and an Army veteran were found dead at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where another soldier disappeared in May and was later found murdered. In 2018, a soldier was allegedly shot and killed in her front yard by her husband at Fort Campbell, in Kentucky, which also has one of the highest rates of suicide in the Army. In 1941, Private Felix Hall was lynched by fellow soldiers, at Fort Benning, Georgia. His killers were never looked for properly and thus never found. Fort Hood might not even stand out were it not for a particularly bad year among many. The stories are gruesome, then heartbreaking, then beyond belief...

[joetheman]

5. It's in TX, what do we expect? nt

[lpbk2713]

4. I doubt if the 'entire' Saber family is devastated.

If he was done in around the barracks area it likely would
have been someone stationed at Fort Hood that did him in.