.The unit doesn’t simply fall short the family members of missing out on Latinas it has likewise repeatedly let down the girls that required their support. This is, possibly, very most infamously evident in the case of Vanessa Guillu00e9n, the 20-year-old united state Army soldier who was bludgeoned to death by an additional soldier, Aaron David Robinson, on April 22, 2020. Just Before the Mexican American servicewoman went overlooking, she found retreat in a superior, notifying all of them that she had actually been sexually bothered twice at the Fort Bonnet (relabelled Fortress Cavazos in 2023), TX, depot where she was actually based.
Examinations that developed after her death discovered that her administrator neglected to disclose the harassment and also various other representatives carried out not take proper action. “Forerunners, despite position, are liable for what occurs in their units and also need to have the tenacity to speak up as well as intervene when they recognize actions that carry harm to our soldiers as well as to the honesty of our establishment,” past Secretary of the Soldiers Ryan D. McCarthy claimed in a claim observing the seekings of an independent evaluation right into management at the base, which triggered 14 forerunners and soldiers being actually suspended or sustained, in December 2020.