At Fort Hood, LI soldiers felt secure
Photo credit: AP | Spc. Ryan Howard of Niles, Mich., right and Spc. David Straub of Ardmore, Okla., await news of fellow soldiers at the gate of the Fort Hood after a shooting spree at the Killeen, Texas, Army base on Thursday. (Nov. 5, 2009)
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The giant Texas military facility where authorities say an Army major shot dozens of people was home to about 600 soldiers of New York's famed 69th Infantry Regiment - many of them from Long Island - as they prepared for their 2004 deployment to Iraq.
"I'm stunned," Sgt. Tim Wiwczar, a member of the regiment's Bay Shore-based B-Company, said of the deaths of 12 and the wounding of 31 at Fort...
