Woman wounded at Fort Hood thought shooting was a drill

Monona woman wounded at Fort Hood thought shooting was a drill

Steven Verburg 608-252-6118
sverburg@madison.com
Posted: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 8:45 pm
A Monona woman who was among the wounded in the Fort Hood massacre told a fellow officer Wednesday that while the shooting was happening she thought it was a drill.

Army Reserves Capt. Dorothy Carskadon and two other wounded members of the Madison-based 467th Medical Detachment have been medically cleared and should be coming home soon, said Capt. Robert LaFountain.

They were among the 15 members of the 467th who were being processed for deployment to Afghanistan on Nov. 5 when an Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, allegedly opened fire and killed 13 soldiers, including three from the 467th.

She was sitting in an office cubicle in the processing center when the shooting started.

"Almost through the whole ordeal she thought it was a training exercise," LaFountain said.

She remembered being hit by what she thought was a paint ball round, and the unit commander Maj. Laura Suttinger pulling her to a safe area and propped her up with another soldier, LaFountain said.
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