In the Line of Fire: Fort Hood First Responders Heroically Save Lives

By • on November 7, 2009

In the Line of Fire: Fort Hood First Responders Heroically Save Lives

By U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Joy Pariante
Special to American Forces Press Service
FORT HOOD, Texas, Nov. 6, 2009 – “Pop, pop, pop.” Those were the sounds Fort Hood’s first responders heard when they arrived at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center here Thursday.

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Detectives assigned to the Fort Hood Directorate of Emergency Sevices respond Nov. 5, 2009, to a shooter barricaded in the post’s deployment readiness center. Thirteen people died and 30 more were wounded in the Fort Hood, Texas, incident. U.S. Army photo by Andrew Evans