Installation Management Command Commanding General Lt. Gen. Douglas Gabram recognized the efforts of a company command team, military police investigators and the public affairs practitioners who aided in the safe return of a missing Soldier last month during a short ceremony in the III Corps and Fort Hood Headquarters here July 20.
The general gave coins to seven individuals who he said represented a much larger effort involving dozens of people to bring what could have been a tragic situation to a positive outcome.
“Nobody ever talks about the saves,” the general told the group. “We don’t get accolades for that because it’s our job. We take care of each other. That’s what we do. That’s one thing special about the Army.”
Gabram gave coins to the Soldier’s command team: Sgt. Tranasha Brinson, first-line supervisor; Sgt. 1st Class Jose Rodriguez, acting first sergeant; and Capt. Jordan Lovin, commander, Headquarters Company, U.S. Army Garrison – Fort Hood.
Brinson is a lifetime resident of Orange. She is a 2012 graduate of West Orange Stark High School and the daughter of Rolanda Brinson of Orange and Troy Brinson Sr. of Goldsboro North Carolina. Granddaughter of Edward Broussard and Carol Scott of Orange. Shortly after graduating high school She began her career in the US Army and has done a tour in Iraq and Korea as well as been stationed at Ft Sill Oklahoma and Ft Hood Texas.
Brinson was the first to notice the Soldier’s absence and was the first to execute steps to locate the Soldier and establish coordination and communication with area hospitals, clinics and law enforcement. She was also the first to make contact with the Soldier, once found.
“Once she figured out the Soldier was missing,” Lovin said, “she came into my office and voiced her concern as this was out of character. She was the one to get me linked with the (Soldier’s) family and she started to work the friendship network.”
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