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10 unusual facts about Fort Hood


67th Armor Regiment

Since December 1995, the Division was thoroughly involved in the training, testing, and evaluation participating in the Division Capstone Exercise (DCX) I held at the National Training Center in the Fort Irwin Military Reservation, California in April 2001, and culminating in the DCX II held at Fort Hood, Texas, in October 2001.

Coffee Strong

It is one of three currently active GI resistance coffee houses along with Under the Hood Café near Fort Hood in Texas & Off Base in Norfolk, Virginia.

Eddie Crowder

He was drafted 9th in the second round (22nd overall) by the New York Giants in 1953, but declined due to a nerve problem in his throwing arm and served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as quarterback of the Fort Hood team for 1953.

K. D. Dunn

Keldrick Arthur Dunn (born April 28, 1963 in Fort Hood, Texas) is a former American football tight end in the National Football League for the St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Washington Redskins, and the New York Jets.

Nation of Islam

So why did Army major Nidal Malik Hassan, a Muslim psychologist at Fort Hood go on a shooting spree after being assigned to debrief soldiers who came back from the theater of war.

Richelle Carey

She's most well known for her coverage of Fort Hood in Texas along with the week she spent in Bosnia where she covered the work of soldiers in the 1st US Calvary stationed there.

Tanks of the U.S. in the Cold War

Two battalions detached from the 2nd Armored Division at Fort Hood Texas, the 6th Medium and 64th Heavy Tank Battalions, were fully equipped with M46 Patton tanks.

Tim Grendell

Grendell served in the United States Army from 1978 to 1983, and was assigned to the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Office for the 2nd Armored Division at Fort Hood, Texas.

Under the Hood Café

It provides services for soldiers located at Fort Hood, one of the largest American military installation in the world.

Zarana

She also completed the Unit Armorer School at Fort Hood, the Marksman Instructor course and Airborne School at Fort Benning, and the Counter-Sniper course at Camp Robinson, Arkansas.


George J. Walker

He served tours in France, Germany, Korea and Vietnam as well as stateside assignments at Seneca Army Depot, Romulus, New York; Fort Holabird, Maryland; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Fort Huachuca, Arizona; Fort Hood, Texas; Washington, DC; and Fort McPherson, Georgia.

Michael D. Barbero

Other staff assignments included service as the executive assistant to the commander of Joint Forces Command/Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, the Deputy Director for Regional Operations on the Joint Staff and the Chief of Staff, III Corps and Fort Hood, Texas.

Morris Hills High School

General Raymond T. Odierno (born 1954, class of 1972), appointed to the United States Military Academy at West Point, he became commanding general of the 4th Infantry Division in Fort Hood, Texas, when troops under Odierno's command in Iraq were given credit for capturing Saddam Hussein.

Sandia Base

The other original NSS installations similar to Manzano were: Site Baker at Killeen Base, adjacent to Gray Air Force Base and Fort Hood, Texas; Site Charlie at Campbell Air Force Base and adjacent to Fort Campbell (Tennessee and Kentucky); Site Dog at Bossier Base, adjacent to Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana; Lake Mead Base, adjacent to Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, and Medina Base, adjacent to Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.