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AUSTIN, Texas It’s been three months since Pvt. Richard Halliday went missing from Fort Bliss. Despite a dozen agencies in two countries taking part in the investigation, there’s still no clear evidence to determine how or why the 21-year-old disappeared from the west Texas base. “We have not gotten the help that I think the military should give us, especially since they failed to reach us and make us aware of our son’s absence,” said Patricia Halliday, the soldier’s mother. Halliday’s whereabouts were unknown for about a month before his parents, Patricia and Rob Halliday, knew their son was missing. For another month, they trusted the Army was using every opportunity to search for him, despite unit leaders believing Halliday deliberately left the base July 24, his mother said.
The disappearance of Pvt. Richard Halliday in July ignited scrutiny of his battalion at Fort Bliss, as the unit faced claims of a toxic culture at the base.
Long field exercises, deployments led to low morale in missing soldier’s unit, investigators say February 6 Pvt. Richard Halliday joined the Army in 2018, serving as a Patriot missile maintainer. His current whereabouts is unknown. (Find Richard Halliday cause/Facebook) The leaders of a Patriot missile battalion at Fort Bliss, Texas, where a soldier has been missing since July, were cleared by an investigation of allegations that their command climate pushed troops to go AWOL. But investigators did determine that soldiers were pushed to their limits and had poor morale due to a high training tempo that began after events in the Middle East necessitated the unit be ready for deployment earlier than originally expected.
Fort Bliss soldier Pvt. Richard Halliday has been missing since July, 23, 2020.
EL PASO – As the Army continues to search for missing soldier Pvt. Richard Halliday, the commanding general at Fort Bliss has ordered an investigation of the soldier’s unit.
“I directed an investigation into the leadership, climate and treatment of soldiers in the 1
st Battalion 43rd Air Defense Artillery Battalion, “said Maj. General Sean C. Bernabe, senior mission commander at Fort Bliss.
Bernabe announced the investigation during an extensive update on the case for handful of journalists on post.
He detailed the chronology of the “exhaustive” search for the solider who was last seen on post July 23