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Texas Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia says at a House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel hearing with the Fort Hood independent review committee that the report validated a lot of the things the family of Vanessa Guillen had said so there was no surprise, but to build on questions about working with families, she had gotten involved with begin, but first of all no members should have to go to a member of Congress to try to get answers that should happen from day one, she heartened that there was a new policy on missing persons and a suggestion that status be chained and of kin notified within eight hours, but without a recommendation what was missing that without a guide a protocol that might be haphazard including notification to next of kin, to go through a checklist with real transparency as to which commander was designated to engage, needing more than human contact but to make sure families knew almost immediately about a missing loved one.