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Killings at Fort Bragg, NC and theHouse Committee on Armed Service’s reaction

On September 30th of last year the Subcommittee on Military Personnel of the House Armed Services committee traveled to Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, NC to hold meetings concerning the alleged murders of four wives of US Army soldiers, three of whom were special operations soldiers, who had recently returned from a tour of duty in Afghanistan.
Although officials on base say that there is no connection between the four killings Deborah Tucker, co-chairwoman of the Defense Department's Task Force on Domestic Violence, is alarmed at the number of killings of spouses in one place in such a relatively short time. Many believe that the stress of deployment and the fear of unfaithfulness by their wives may have been a cause of the killings, but Tucker believes that there were deeper problems in the marriages including past violence, that in conjunction with insecure “control hungry” husbands who feared losing control because of their deployments.
Representative Mike McIntyr...

Posted by: William Katz

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