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Mother of Fort Hood Soldier Gregory Morales hopes for changes in the Army after new policy announced for missing soldiers
Kim Wedel hopes the Army will make changes recommended by the Fort Hood Independent Review Committee. She believes Army leaders failed her son when he went missing. Author: Tiffany Liou Updated: 5:29 PM CST December 9, 2020
On Aug. 19, 2019, Army Private Gregory Scott Wedel-Morales went missing from Fort Hood, Texas.
Kim Wedel, his mother, said the Army quickly marked her son as AWOL, then added him to the list of deserters. He wasn t important to them, Wedel said. There was nothing where they cared or looked.
Speier, who in September led a congressional delegation to the base, said she met with junior enlisted women who described a culture of sexual harassment. Squad and platoon leaders saw the abuse but “seemed either unwilling or unsure how to help them, she said.
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“No one was held accountable. And not one leader stepped forward,” Speier said in her opening remarks at a hearing featuring the five experts who made up the Fort Hood Independent Review Committee, which produced the report.
Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller on Wednesday backed the findings of the report, voicing his support for the firings that followed in its wake.