FORT HOOD, Texas — The death of Spc. Vanessa Guillen and a number of other soldiers at Fort Hood sparked outrage across the country, leading to an independent review of the command climate and culture on the military post.

From that review, committee members determined Fort Hood criminal detachments were understaffed, inexperienced, over assigned, and poorly supported leading to inefficiencies that had an adverse impact on investigations.

On Tuesday, the House Armed Services Committee held a hearing on reform recommendations for the Army's Criminal Investigation Command (CID).

Spectrum News 1 Texas spoke with one of the many families that lost a soldier at the military installation.

One Fort Hood soldier's mother says she still has more questions than answers about her son's death. In her opinion, an independent review should have happened years ago.

Angie McBride sits holding a photo of SSG Rodney Hagan. She said her son served in the U.S. Army for 13 years.

In 2019, Hagan was found dead in his truck in Killeen, Texas, just miles away from the military installation. His death was listed as suicide.

According to the Killeen Police Department, the Justice of the Peace did not order an autopsy. McBride says she did not have the chance to request one.

"I can say that it's wrong all day every day," said McBride. "As a mother, I'm the one that brought this little boy into this world. I should have a right to know everything."

"There's things that were stolen from his home by the time his family was able to get there," said McBride. "Things that were reported to KPD that have went completely unnoticed, that the military has no clue about. Why does the military have no clue about it? Oh, because he 'Lived off post, it's not in their jurisdiction.’"

The Fort Hood Independent Review Committee recently shared its recommendations for changes that should be made to the CID. From their investigation, Chairman Christopher Swecker says they found serious crime issues on and off Fort Hood went unidentified and unaddressed.

"So much happens off the base that involves soldiers and what we saw was a big gap there in terms of working true joint investigations where they could actually elbow-to-elbow work cases together and share information real time," explained Swecker during Tuesday's hearing.

CID Commanding General Major General Donna Martin told lawmakers the Fort Hood Independent Review Committee's report Is not taken lightly.

"I am working with key stakeholders to reform, restructure and modernize CID to address the shortcomings identified in the report and to organize CID to better meet today's law enforcement challenges," said Martin.

McBride shared her story as she begged for change and for answers she is still waiting for.

"It's unethical that these deaths don't get the attention that they need in all the cases of all the missing and all the suicides all the homicides," said McBride. "It's just unethical."

CORRECTION: A previous version of this story mistakenly referred to Fort Hood as a military base. The error has been corrected. (March 22, 2021)