Trump threatens to deploy military to Texas to clean up Fort Hood

KILLEEN, Texas – After deploying the National Guard to patrol the streets of the nation’s capital to “beautify and clean the once-great American city that Joe Biden turned into a crime-infested hell hole”, President Trump announced he’s working with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to deploy more military troops around the country.

One of his latest targets is the city of Killeen, Texas, home of Fort Hood, one of the largest U.S. Army training facilities in the country—as well as one of the most notoriously crime-ridden duty stations in the continental United States.

“Fort Hood is commonly known as ‘the great place’,” said Spc. Damien Fargas, a tanker with 1st Cavalry Division. “And it really is a great place … to die. Literally, morally, emotionally, it all dies in the Great Place. Fort Hood is a lot like Baghdad except we gotta worry about that 22-years old staff sergeant going through his fourth divorce instead of a suicide bomber or some Al-Qaeda dude with an AK.”

Fort Hood is home to some of the most horrific and publicized deaths of U.S. servicemembers in recent years. In 2009, Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist killed 13 people and injured 32 more in what was considered an act of terrorism. Between March and June 2020, five Fort Hood Soldiers were murdered, making it one of the most deadly years in the fort’s history.

In 2020, Fort Hood came under the microscope after several active-duty Soldiers and Fort Hood veterans were murdered, including:

• Spc. Vanessa Guillen, whose disappearance and murder made international news
• Spc. Freddy Delacruz, 23, his girlfriend, Asia Cline, 20, and veteran Shaquan Allard, 23, were all shot and killed
• Spc. Shelby Jones was shot and killed outside a nightclub in Killeen
• Veteran Michael Wardrobe was shot and killed by Spc. Jovino Jamal Roy after a fight broke out between the men due to an alleged love-triangle involving Roy’s wife
• Pfc. Brandon Rosecrans was shot and killed in the Harker Heights neighborhood of Killeen

Then-Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy said, “The numbers are real high [at Fort Hood]. They are the highest in most cases for sexual assault, harassment, murders, for our entire formation in the U.S. Army.”

The numbers are so high, in fact, that Fort Hood ranks number one in most violent crimes committed between 2015-2019, even before the high-profile cases of Guillen and Delacruz shed light on how the Army was failing its soldiers at this duty location. According to the data, released by the Fort Hood Public Affairs office, Fort Hood averaged 129 violent felonies committed during each of those years. These crimes include homicide, violent sex crimes, kidnapping, robbery, and aggravated assault.

According to crimegrade.org, Fort Hood received a D- rating in safety and costs the average Fort Hood family about $2,400 a year.

“The crime in Fort Hood is out of control,” said Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. “Texas is a border state, so a lot of this crime is probably from all the illegal immigrants that Joe Biden let flow into our country during his disastrous term in office. It’s not just a threat to our nation, but it’s a threat to our brave men and biological women in the armed services. That’s why I’m authorizing President Trump to deploy the National Guard, will full armament to Fort Hood. We need to make out military bases safe again.”

Critics of the decision question why the National Guard needs to be activated and deployed to Fort Hood, which is a military base with about 41,000 Soldiers stationed there.

“Wait, why are we deploying troops to protect troops?” asked Tad Crater, a Killeen strip club owner. “Shouldn’t the troops stationed at Fort Hood just, like, protect Fort Hood? Am I missing something or does this just feel like a major waste of everyone’s time and money?”

The Fort Hood command team is also not happy about the announcement, which they only learned about from the president’s tweet on TruthSocial.

“I have all the respect in the world for my National Guard brothers and sisters,” said Col. Mark McClellan, commander of Fort Hood. “But with all due respect, we don’t need these weekend warrior’s help.”

To add insult to injury, Hegseth also said he’s open to deploying Marine reservists from around the state to occupy and control Fort Hood if the President needs the Texas National Guard redeployed to other areas around the country in his continuing bid to place the entire country under his military command.