Following the Fort Hood shooting of November 5 , 2009 , Michael Kern , former President of the Fort Hood IVAW chapter attempted to hand President Obama a statement from the organization , when the President visited his barracks at Fort Hood on November 10 . The statement in part demanded that the military radically overhaul its mental health care system and halt the practice of repeated deployment of the same troops
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