Staff Sergeant Devin Schuette was found dead in his pickup truck, fitted with a hose running from the exhaust pipe to the cabin, in January 2016. The stories are gruesome, then heartbreaking, then beyond belief. Fort Hood might not even stand out were it not for a particularly bad year among many. His killers were never looked for properly and thus never found. In 1941, Private Felix Hall was lynched by fellow soldiers, at Fort Benning, Georgia. In 2018, a soldier was allegedly shot and killed in her front yard by her husband at Fort Campbell, in Kentucky, which also has one of the highest rates of suicide in the Army. Last December, a Special Forces soldier and an Army veteran were found dead at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where another soldier disappeared in May and was later found murdered. And yet: The data is not really out of the ordinary for U.S. The suicides, which reportedly jumped by as much as 20 percent across the military last year, work out to a rate of one soldier a month.

These figures eclipse American casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq in the same year. The 2020 numbers add to ongoing mysteries, including a 2016 case where a corpse’s hyoid, the U-shaped neck bone typically examined to determine whether strangulation has occurred, was missing.

Eleven of the deaths remain unresolved-some legally others for the victims’ families. Last year, at least 39 Fort Hood soldiers died or went missing.

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