FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Fort Bliss, Texas ~ 20 NOV 2018

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: Fort Bliss, Texas

Fort Bliss is a United States Army post in the U.S. states of New Mexico and Texas, with its headquarters located in El Paso, Texas. Named in honor of LTC William Bliss (1815-1853), a mathematical genius who was the son-in-law of President Zachary Taylor, Ft. Bliss has an area of about 1,700 square miles; it is the largest installation in FORSCOM (United States Army Forces Command) and second-largest in the Army overall (the largest being the adjacent White Sands Missile Range).

Fort Bliss is home to the 1st Armored Division, which returned to US soil in 2011 after 40 years in Germany. The division is supported by the 15th Sustainment Brigade. The installation is also home to the 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command, the 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, the 212th Fires Brigade (now reflagged as the 1st Armored Division Artillery Brigade), and the 402nd Field Artillery Brigade.

Training missions are supported by the McGregor Range Complex, located some 25 miles to the northeast of the main post, in New Mexico. Most of Fort Bliss lies in the state of New Mexico, stretching northeastward along U.S. Route 54 from El Paso County, Texas to the southern boundary of the Lincoln National Forest in Otero County, New Mexico; in addition, much of the northwestward side of Highway 54 is part of the Fort Bliss Military

Reservation, ranging from the northern side of Chaparral, New Mexico to the southern boundary of White Sands Missile Range; the main facilities are within the city limits of El Paso, Texas. According to the city zoning map, the post officially resides in Central El Paso.

Separate from the main post are the William Beaumont Army Medical Center (which also serves the warrior transition battalion for the post's wounded warriors) and a Department of Veterans Affairs center at the eastern base of the Franklin Mountains. All of these supporting missions serve the military and retired-military population here, including having served General Omar N. Bradley in his last days.

A new warrior transition complex, located at Marshall and Cassidy roads, was opened in June 2011 to replace the older facility serving the warrior transition battalion. A new location for William Beaumont Army Medical Center, to be located at Spur 601 and Loop 375, is now rescheduled to be completed in September 2019.

Learn More About Fort Bliss HERE!!

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[ExTexasRedhead]

For the Navy guys and their friends:

http://cimsec.org/what-do-you-call-it-the-politics-and-practicalities-of-warship-classification/38731

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1064272966190419968.html?utm_source=email&utm_medium=alert&utm_campaign=internal

[MEG33]

Good Morning To The Canteen
Thank you for the Road Trip, laurenmarlowe.

Hope your Tuesday goes well.
*HUGS*
Thank You To All Who Have Served And Are Serving Our Country

[luvie]

Howdy, EGC! (((hugs)))

All is well here. It’s cool but very pretty with the sun shining bright.

Hope you and Gizmo enjoy a great romp at the lake today. Let him run some of that Giz energy off! LOL!

[luvie]

Goooood mornin', Early Birds!
Two more days till Thanksgiving!
Where will your road trip take you?
Or is someone road-tripping to see you?
Whatever the deal, hope it's wonderful!
As you prepare for TH' day,
....have a Terrific Tuesday!
((((hugs))))

[Lumper20]

1AD isn’t exactly Infantry or SPECOPS. Ft Bliss was ADA for years. Ft Sill was FA. Why not go to FT Hood or to Ft Knox where the armor school is? The military is not what is was with fags and lesbians plus you have Infantry riding in vehicles. Idiot commanders ordering units to drive up and down MSR’s is exactly how the Russians got clobbered in Afghan. Don’t tell me you have no heroin addicts as the Russians came home loaded with them.

[IndispensableDestiny]

Why not go to FT Hood or to Ft Knox where the armor school is?

1AD came back from Europe. Hood has 2CAV, with its 3 ABCTs, DIVARTY, CAB, and sustainment BDE. The Armor School moved to Benning. Knox is mostly reserves.

The training ranges at Bliss are more extensive than at Hood.

[Lumper20]

Seems the Army moved ADA to Sill in 2008-9 and Armor went to Benning in 2010-11. I am not up on today’s military and frankly I would not serve with the so called LGBTQ or whatever it is. When I saw a male officer marry another man outside the main chapel at Ft. Bragg, NC I made up my mind to not even use the commissary at Ft. Campbell or anywhere. The only fag I ever ran into in the Army was an MI Major in early 1970.