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Fort Cavazos is a United States Army post located near Killeen, Texas. The post is named after Gen. Richard E. Cavazos , a native Texan and the US Army’s first Hispanic four-star general. Formerly named Fort Hood for Confederate General John Bell Hood , the post is located halfway between Austin and Waco , about 60 mi (97 km) from each ...
Richard E. Cavazos. Richard Edward Cavazos (January 31, 1929 – October 29, 2017) was a United States Army 4-star general. He was a Korean War recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross as a first lieutenant and advanced in rank to become the United States Army 's first Hispanic four-star general. [1] During the Vietnam War, as a lieutenant ...
The fort will be called Fort Cavazos, after Gen. Richard Cavazos. So who is Gen. Richard Cavazos? Cavazos, a sixth-generation Texan, was the first Hispanic American to earn a four-star rank in the ...
Lineage. Constituted 29 August 1917 in the Regular Army as Headquarters, 1st Cavalry Brigade. Organized in February 1918 at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, as an element of the 15th Cavalry Division. Relieved 12 May 1918 from assignment to the 15th Cavalry Division. Demobilized 14 July 1919 at Brownsville, Texas.
III Corps [4] is a corps of the United States Army headquartered at Fort Cavazos, Texas. It is a major formation of the United States Army Forces Command . Activated in World War I in France, III Corps oversaw US Army divisions as they repelled several major German offensives and led them into Germany. The corps was deactivated following the ...
Attempted murder (32 counts) On November 5, 2009, a terrorist mass shooting took place at Fort Hood (now Fort Cavazos ), near Killeen, Texas. [1] Nidal Hasan, a U.S. Army major and psychiatrist, fatally shot 13 people and injured more than 30 others. [2] [3] It was the deadliest mass shooting on an American military base and the deadliest ...
The 36th Engineer Brigade is a combat engineer brigade of the United States Army based at Fort Cavazos, Texas. The brigade is a subordinate unit of III Armored Corps . The unit is responsible for providing command and control to subordinate Engineer units. The unit was formerly designated as the 36th Engineer Group, and before that as the 36th ...
The Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center is a United States Department of Defense medical facility at Fort Cavazos, Texas. It provides medical care to servicemembers and their families, along with veterans and their dependents, in and around the largest U.S. military installation in the world. Named after inventor of water chlorination Brigadier ...