It explains a lot.

I don't really need to read this article. i was a criminal defense attorney in the Army.

January-June 1969. There was more entertainment at Hood than in Killeen.

Might as well call it Fort Thug, as an alternative!

Maybe, for good luck, just call it Fort Peace? Or Fort Obama?

I was enlisted there in the mid 90s and then later went back briefly to train defense counsel as a defense attorney.

Killeen has always been a craphole in the middle of nowhere, the female to male ratio is like 1 to 10 so you have a lot of guys with no women, nothing to do, and boredom. The location sucks, the only thing there is Fort Hood. The weather sucks pretty much year round. It's hours away from a major city, and the one it's closest to, Austin, is expensive and known mostly for its party and music scene.

Also, lot of gang activity in the area, probably because it's a midpoint for trafficking to points north.

It's just a perfect storm of a lot of different things. I think it would be just as bad proportionally even with no military base, but having a large pool of young 18-24 year old men which is prime crime age doesn't help.