A 25-year-old soldier died during training at Fort Hood, the latest death at the troubled Army base.

Pvt. Corlton Chee, who was from Pinehill, New Mexico, collapsed during physical fitness training on August 28 at the military base in Killeen. He died at a hospital with his family by his side on Wednesday, Fort Hood said in a news release Friday.

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Congress will launch an investigation into sexual assault, disappearances, deaths, and the leadership's response at Fort Hood after 28 soldiers stationed at the U.S. Army base in Texas died this year, two subcommittee leaders announced Tuesday.

According to data from Fort Hood officials, the 28 deaths include five homicides, as well as accidents, suicides, deaths related to illness, cases still under investigation, and one combat-related death.

Democratic Representatives. Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts and Jackie Speier of California sent a letter to Army Secretary Ryan D. McCarthy requesting documents and information on the deaths. Lynch chairs the Committee on Oversight and Reform’s Subcommittee on National Security, and Speier leads the Committee on Armed Services’ Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

The subcommittees will jointly investigate if recent deaths "may be symptomatic of underlying leadership, discipline, and morale deficiencies throughout the chain-of-command.”

According to Army data, there were an average of 129 felonies committed annually at Fort Hood between 2014 and 2019, including cases of homicide, sexual assault, kidnapping, robbery, and aggravated assault.

Army Secretary Ryan D. McCarthy stated that Fort Hood had the “highest, the most cases for sexual assault and harassment and murders for our entire formation of the US Army.”

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Article 59 on August 28, 2020, Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services includes a reference to an article by Alex Gibbs about our efforts to rename Fort Hood.

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Also an Editorial in the Dallas Morning News September 8, 2020.

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https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2020/09/08/murder-and-suicide-at-fort-hood-signal-a-broken-culture-that-must-change/

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https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2020/09/08/murder-and-suicide-at-fort-hood-signal-a-broken-culture-that-must-change/