Recent developments in the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure process open up significant possibilities for Fort Hood to increase its troop strength, said U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco.

The Pentagon released Thursday the final BRAC criteria that will be used to determine which U.S. military installations will be closed or realigned.

And within the next 90 days Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will produce a report detailing the number of soldiers stationed in Europe and Asia that will be transferred to domestic installations, testified