Ft. Hood Center Proposed

DALLAS (AP) _ U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards says he expects broad, bipartisan support for a $16.5 million earmark to fund a new Soldier Readiness Processing Center at Fort Hood.

The money is part of $529 million for military construction projects in the supplemental appropriations bill the House Appropriations Committee is to consider Thursday. The project would replace the site of last year’s shooting rampage.

The Waco Democrat said Wednesday he secured the earmark because the last place soldiers visit before deployment and the first place they see when coming home “should not be the site of a senseless, terrible tragedy.”

Maj. Nidal Hassan, an Army psychiatrist, is charged with killing 13 and wounding dozens of others at the facility Nov. 5.

 

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