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Vicente Gonzalez: “We don't keep a database of members who die in military…”

Featuring: Vicente Gonzalez, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 34

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Congressman Gonzalez on protecting future service members and honoring Seaman Angelina Resendiz

Published | Video Starts at 01:11

The service members that were serving with her in the Navy immediately knew that that wasn't common, that it was odd for her not to be there. And We don't keep a database of members who die in military bases, and certainly not a public database. So now whenever something like that happens, they immediately investigate, and they have 180 days to report it to Congress from now on. And we should have a database just last the last few years. (01:11–01:20)

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Asserts that there is no database, public or otherwise, of military members who die on bases.

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