Lt. Col. Juanita Warman killed at Fort Hood wanted to help female soldiers

FORT HOOD SHOOTINGS

Trauma expert wanted to help female soldiers
Highest-ranking person killed in shootings, Lt. Col. Juanita Warman, had husband, two daughters and six grandchildren.
By Patrick George

AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF


Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Editor's Note: Lt. Col. Juanita Warman was one of 13 people killed Thursday at Fort Hood.

Just a day after Lt. Col. Juanita Warman arrived at Fort Hood, the shooting started.

Warman had arrived in Texas to be processed for her deployment to Iraq at the end of the month. On Thursday, she was at the post's Soldier Readiness Processing Center when a gunman entered and began firing, killing her and a dozen others. She was 55.

Warman is survived by a husband, two daughters and six grandchildren.

"I kept thinking, 'She can't be in the processing center,' " her husband, Philip Warman, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "She had just gotten there; she had more training to undergo. She was not due to leave until the end of November. The base hot line didn't have her on the initial list of casualties."

But a half-hour later, two soldiers arrived in dress uniforms, and Warman immediately knew she had been killed, he told the paper.
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Trauma expert wanted to help female soldiers