[Vision2020] Just Another Statistic

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of the Army Times.

 

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Bliss soldier kills himself in police standoff

The Associated Press

 

EL PASO, Texas - A soldier died Monday after shooting himself in the chest
during a standoff with local police.

 

Spc. Robert Nichols, 24, shot himself Monday night, El Paso police spokesman
Mike Baranyay said. Nichols was taken to William Beaumont Army Medical
Center at Fort Bliss, where he later died.

 

Baranyay said police went to Nichols' northeast El Paso home after getting a
call about a suicide in progress. After officers heard several gunshots from
inside the home, Nichols came out and later shot himself as police looked
on.

 

Fort Bliss officials said military authorities have investigated three other
suspected suicides involving soldiers from the post this year.

 

A statement issued Tuesday by Fort Bliss said Nichols was a Phoenix native
assigned to the Battery A, 2nd Terminal High Altitude Area Defense Regiment,
112th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense
Command, out of Fort Bliss.

 

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Pro patria,

 

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

 

"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil
and steady dedication of a lifetime."

 

-- Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.

 

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