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The 478th Transportation Company based at Camp Pendleton, was at Fort Hood during Thursday's shooting rampage.
About 160 Army Reserve soldiers left San Diego for Texas over the past few days. An anonymous soldier e-mailed Fox 5 about two hours after the shooting. In the first e-mail at 2:21 p.m. (Pacific Time), the soldier seemed panicked, using abbreviated words and incomplete sentences. The message was "some soldiers witness shooting."
Twenty minutes later, the soldier replied to questions that we sent in response to the e-mail.
"All of our unit is ok," the soldier wrote. "Our troops that were in the building, made it out without injury, just really shook up. We are currently on lockdown."
The unit stopped at Fort Hood on their way to Afghanistan for a year long deployment. The company will deliver ammunition and supplies to troops throughout the war-torn country.
At 3:15 p.m., the tone of the e-mails changed. The soldier wrote about what lies ahead.
"If you can let the people of San Diego know we thank them for their support and to pray for us on this deployment to Afghanistan. We will keep our head up and work as a family from here. Thanks for recognizing us. God bless, and go Chargers," it read.
The final message, came just a few minutes later.
"One more thing, some soldiers families don't have phones, so if you could let everyone know that we are all OK. Thanks."
About 160 Army Reserve soldiers left San Diego for Texas over the past few days. An anonymous soldier e-mailed Fox 5 about two hours after the shooting. In the first e-mail at 2:21 p.m. (Pacific Time), the soldier seemed panicked, using abbreviated words and incomplete sentences. The message was "some soldiers witness shooting."
Twenty minutes later, the soldier replied to questions that we sent in response to the e-mail.
"All of our unit is ok," the soldier wrote. "Our troops that were in the building, made it out without injury, just really shook up. We are currently on lockdown."
The unit stopped at Fort Hood on their way to Afghanistan for a year long deployment. The company will deliver ammunition and supplies to troops throughout the war-torn country.
At 3:15 p.m., the tone of the e-mails changed. The soldier wrote about what lies ahead.
"If you can let the people of San Diego know we thank them for their support and to pray for us on this deployment to Afghanistan. We will keep our head up and work as a family from here. Thanks for recognizing us. God bless, and go Chargers," it read.
The final message, came just a few minutes later.
"One more thing, some soldiers families don't have phones, so if you could let everyone know that we are all OK. Thanks."
