{"id":37360,"date":"2021-10-27T21:20:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T21:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/10\/27\/fort-hood-crisis-didnt-hurt-armys-hispanic-recruiting-data-shows\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T03:10:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:10:43","slug":"fort-hood-crisis-didnt-hurt-armys-hispanic-recruiting-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2021\/10\/27\/fort-hood-crisis-didnt-hurt-armys-hispanic-recruiting-data-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Hood crisis didn\u2019t hurt Army\u2019s Hispanic recruiting, data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite high-profile calls for young Hispanic men and women to stop joining the Army in the chaos following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2021\/04\/30\/vanessa-guillen-was-sexually-harassed-by-a-supervisor-and-she-informally-reported-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spc. Vanessa Guill\u00e9n\u2019s disappearance<\/a> last year, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/2021\/10\/11\/what-tradoc-has-been-doing-about-recruiting-and-retention\/\" target=\"_blank\">Army\u2019s recruiting machine<\/a> kept rolling along with virtually no impact to how many Hispanic recruits joined the service, according to accessions data the Army provided to Army Times upon request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2021, in fact, Hispanic men and women made up a greater percentage of their respective gender\u2019s overall ethnic makeup among new soldiers than in any other quarter evaluated in three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guill\u00e9n\u2019s disappearance and murder at the hands of a fellow soldier \u2014 and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2020\/12\/15\/army-cid-is-burned-out-and-mismanaged-by-military-police-leadership-special-agents-say\/\" target=\"_blank\">Army\u2019s handling of the case<\/a> \u2014 led to public outcry and protests, including marches that called for people of color to boycott enlisting in the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5032\" height=\"2896\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hispanic-accessions.png.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hispanic-accessions.png.png 5032w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hispanic-accessions.png.png?resize=300,173 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hispanic-accessions.png.png?resize=768,442 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hispanic-accessions.png.png?resize=1024,589 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hispanic-accessions.png.png?resize=1536,884 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/hispanic-accessions.png.png?resize=2048,1179 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 5032px) 100vw, 5032px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This graph depicts what portion of the Army&#8217;s quarterly accessions since fiscal 2019 are Hispanic. 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(Staff\/Davis Winkie)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One leading Latino civil rights group, the League of United Latin American Citizens, made public calls for such a boycott in July 2020, shortly after the service found the soldier\u2019s remains in a shallow grave near the Texas post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LULAC later participated in policy discussions with senior Army officials and released a statement praising the Army\u2019s decision to discipline leaders and implement reforms following the report of the Fort Hood Independent Review Committee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The organization did not immediately respond to a request for comment for this story that Army Times made through its website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The data, provided by Army spokesperson Matt Leonard shows that the proportion of Hispanic recruits among Army accessions did not meaningfully decrease in the wake of the Fort Hood scandal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2798\" height=\"1742\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-27-at-2.39.06-PM.png.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-27-at-2.39.06-PM.png.png 2798w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-27-at-2.39.06-PM.png.png?resize=300,187 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-27-at-2.39.06-PM.png.png?resize=768,478 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-27-at-2.39.06-PM.png.png?resize=1024,638 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-27-at-2.39.06-PM.png.png?resize=1536,956 1536w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-10-27-at-2.39.06-PM.png.png?resize=2048,1275 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2798px) 100vw, 2798px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This table shows the number of Hispanic recruits who shipped to Army basic training measured against the total number of recruits, broken out by gender and quarter, stretching back to fiscal 2019. (Matt Leonard\/Army)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe table illustrates that the quarter-to-quarter accessions numbers remained consistent by year, with the exception occurring during the COVID pause [on basic training classes] of third quarter [of] fiscal year 2020,\u201d Leonard explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That third quarter saw nearly 10,000 fewer<b> <\/b>recruits<b> <\/b>across all demographics<b> <\/b>ship to training than the previous quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even the two quarters immediately following the identification of Guill\u00e9n\u2019s remains in July 2020 \u2014 the fourth quarter of fiscal 2020 and the first quarter of fiscal 2021, or July through December 2020 \u2014 saw only a marginal decrease in the proportion of Hispanic accessions compared to the second quarter of fiscal 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And although accessions may be a lagging indicator 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