(Reuters) -Five U.S. soldiers were shot and wounded at the Fort Stewart Army base in the state of Georgia on Wednesday. Here are some other mass shootings at U.S. military bases in recent years:
* December 2019: A Saudi Air Force lieutenant shot andkilled three people and wounded eight others at a U.S. Navy basein Pensacola, Florida. * July 2015: A man shot people at a recruiting center andlater at a nearby U.S. Navy Reserve Center, killing four Marinesand a Navy sailor, and wounding several others before theshooter was killed by police. * April 2014: A soldier at the Fort Hood Army base in Texasfatally shot three service members and injured 16 others beforekilling himself in the deadliest U.S. military base shootingsince 2009, also at Fort Hood. * March 2014: A civilian truck driver shot dead a sailoraboard the USS Mahan destroyer at a Navy base in Norfolk,Virginia, before being killed by base security forces. * September 2013: An employee of a government defensecontractor fatally shot 12 people and wounded four others at theNavy Yard in Washington before he was killed by police. * November 2009: Major Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist,killed 13 people and injured more than 30 at Fort Hood, Texas,shooting unarmed soldiers in a medical building with alaser-sighted handgun in what he later called retaliation forU.S. wars in the Muslim world. A military jury convicted Hasanin 2013, sentencing him to death, and he awaits his execution atFort Leavenworth, Kansas. * October 1995: An Army sergeant killed one officer andwounded 18 soldiers at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, duringmorning exercises before several soldiers tackled him. Thesergeant was sentenced to life in prison. * June 1994: A man who had been discharged from the AirForce a month earlier killed four people and wounded at least 20at a hospital at the Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane,Washington. He was killed by a military police officer.
(Compiled by Jonathan Allen and Brendan O'BrienEditing by Rod Nickel)
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