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mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Bliss" title="Fort Bliss – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Fort Bliss" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Bliss" title="Fort Bliss – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Fort Bliss" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Bliss" title="Fort Bliss – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Fort Bliss" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3" title="فورت بلیس – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="فورت بلیس" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Bliss" title="Fort Bliss – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Fort Bliss" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8F%AC%ED%8A%B8_%EB%B8%94%EB%A6%AC%EC%8A%A4" title="포트 블리스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="포트 블리스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Bliss_(Teksas)" title="Fort Bliss (Teksas) – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Fort Bliss (Teksas)" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Bliss" title="Fort Bliss – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Fort Bliss" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht mw-list-item"><a href="https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Bliss,_Texas" title="Fort Bliss, Texas – Haitian Creole" lang="ht" hreflang="ht" data-title="Fort Bliss, Texas" data-language-autonym="Kreyòl ayisyen" data-language-local-name="Haitian Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kreyòl ayisyen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link 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lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Форт Блисс" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82_%D0%91%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%81%D1%81" title="Форт Блісс – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Форт Блісс" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Bliss,_Texas" title="Fort Bliss, Texas – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Fort Bliss, Texas" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh mw-list-item"><a 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.longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Fort_Bliss&params=31.801847_N_106.424608_W_type:landmark_region:US"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">31°48′07″N</span> <span class="longitude">106°25′29″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">31.801847°N 106.424608°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">31.801847; -106.424608</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Military_base" title="Military base">Military base</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Site information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Controlled by</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281861-1863%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281861-1863%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281861-1863%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281861-1863%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281861-1863%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281861-1863%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> (1849–1861)<br /><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Flag_of_the_Confederate_States_%28July_%E2%80%93_November_1861%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Confederate_States_%28July_%E2%80%93_November_1861%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Flag_of_the_Confederate_States_%28July_%E2%80%93_November_1861%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Confederate_States_%28July_%E2%80%93_November_1861%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Flag_of_the_Confederate_States_%28July_%E2%80%93_November_1861%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Confederate_States_%28July_%E2%80%93_November_1861%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1080" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America">Confederate States</a> (1861–1862)<br /><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> (1862–present)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Facilities<sup id="cite_ref-gs_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gs-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Biggs_Army_Airfield" title="Biggs Army Airfield">Biggs Army Airfield</a><br /> <p><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/mcgregor.htm">McGregor Range</a><br /> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/dona-ana.htm">Doña Ana Range</a><br /> North Training Area<br /> </p> South Training Area</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Site history</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Built</th><td class="infobox-data">1849–1893<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">In use</th><td class="infobox-data">1849–present<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Garrison information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Current<br />commander</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Major_general_(United_States)" title="Major general (United States)">MG</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=James_P._Isenhower_III&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James P. Isenhower III (page does not exist)">James P. Isenhower III</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Past<br />commanders</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_J._Pershing" title="John J. Pershing">John J. Pershing</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Garrison</th><td class="infobox-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:United_States_Army_1st_Armored_Division_CSIB.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/United_States_Army_1st_Armored_Division_CSIB.svg/22px-United_States_Army_1st_Armored_Division_CSIB.svg.png" decoding="async" width="22" height="22" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/United_States_Army_1st_Armored_Division_CSIB.svg/33px-United_States_Army_1st_Armored_Division_CSIB.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/United_States_Army_1st_Armored_Division_CSIB.svg/44px-United_States_Army_1st_Armored_Division_CSIB.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1166" data-file-height="1177" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/1st_Armored_Division_(United_States)" title="1st Armored Division (United States)">1st Armored Division</a><br /> <p><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:15th_Sustainment_Brigade_SSI.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/15th_Sustainment_Brigade_SSI.svg/20px-15th_Sustainment_Brigade_SSI.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/15th_Sustainment_Brigade_SSI.svg/30px-15th_Sustainment_Brigade_SSI.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/15th_Sustainment_Brigade_SSI.svg/40px-15th_Sustainment_Brigade_SSI.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="183" data-file-height="275" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/15th_Sustainment_Brigade" class="mw-redirect" title="15th Sustainment Brigade">15th Sustainment Brigade</a><br /> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:402_fa_bde_a.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/402_fa_bde_a.jpg/20px-402_fa_bde_a.jpg" decoding="async" width="20" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/402_fa_bde_a.jpg/30px-402_fa_bde_a.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/402_fa_bde_a.jpg/40px-402_fa_bde_a.jpg 2x" data-file-width="253" data-file-height="313" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/402nd_Field_Artillery_Brigade_(United_States)" title="402nd Field Artillery Brigade (United States)">402nd Field Artillery Brigade</a><br /> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:5th_ar_bde_dui.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/5th_ar_bde_dui.JPG/23px-5th_ar_bde_dui.JPG" decoding="async" width="23" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/5th_ar_bde_dui.JPG/35px-5th_ar_bde_dui.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/5th_ar_bde_dui.JPG/46px-5th_ar_bde_dui.JPG 2x" data-file-width="940" data-file-height="1128" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/5th_Armored_Brigade_(United_States)" title="5th Armored Brigade (United States)">5th Armored Brigade</a><br /> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:32aamdc.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/32aamdc.svg/20px-32aamdc.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="26" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/32aamdc.svg/30px-32aamdc.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/32aamdc.svg/40px-32aamdc.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="278" data-file-height="366" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/32nd_Army_Air_and_Missile_Defense_Command" title="32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command">32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command</a><br /> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:11ADABdeSSI.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/11ADABdeSSI.svg/18px-11ADABdeSSI.svg.png" decoding="async" width="18" height="27" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/11ADABdeSSI.svg/27px-11ADABdeSSI.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/11ADABdeSSI.svg/36px-11ADABdeSSI.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/11th_Air_Defense_Artillery_Brigade_(United_States)" title="11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade (United States)">11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade</a><br /> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:86_Sig_Bn_DUI.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/86_Sig_Bn_DUI.png/18px-86_Sig_Bn_DUI.png" decoding="async" width="18" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/86_Sig_Bn_DUI.png/27px-86_Sig_Bn_DUI.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/86_Sig_Bn_DUI.png/36px-86_Sig_Bn_DUI.png 2x" data-file-width="811" data-file-height="818" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/86th_Expeditionary_Signal_Battalion" title="86th Expeditionary Signal Battalion">86th Expeditionary Signal Battalion</a><br /> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Joint_Task_Force_North.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Joint_Task_Force_North.jpg/23px-Joint_Task_Force_North.jpg" decoding="async" width="23" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Joint_Task_Force_North.jpg/35px-Joint_Task_Force_North.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Joint_Task_Force_North.jpg/46px-Joint_Task_Force_North.jpg 2x" data-file-width="505" data-file-height="504" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Joint_Task_Force_North" title="Joint Task Force North">Joint Task Force North</a><br /><br /> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:DtLwKdoUSCA.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/DtLwKdoUSCA.jpg/18px-DtLwKdoUSCA.jpg" decoding="async" width="18" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/DtLwKdoUSCA.jpg/27px-DtLwKdoUSCA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/DtLwKdoUSCA.jpg/36px-DtLwKdoUSCA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="340" data-file-height="399" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/German_Air_Force" title="German Air Force">German Air Force</a> Command USA/CAN<br /> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:TaktAusbWbZ_FlaRakLw_USA.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/TaktAusbWbZ_FlaRakLw_USA.svg/15px-TaktAusbWbZ_FlaRakLw_USA.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/TaktAusbWbZ_FlaRakLw_USA.svg/23px-TaktAusbWbZ_FlaRakLw_USA.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/TaktAusbWbZ_FlaRakLw_USA.svg/30px-TaktAusbWbZ_FlaRakLw_USA.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="722" /></a></span> </p> <a href="/wiki/German_Air_Force" title="German Air Force">German Air Force</a> Air Defense Center<sup id="cite_ref-Luftwaffe_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Luftwaffe-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-GAFADC_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GAFADC-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right:1em">Occupants</th><td class="infobox-data">DCG: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>Maneuver: <a href="/wiki/Brigadier_(United_Kingdom)" title="Brigadier (United Kingdom)">Brigadier (UK)</a> Richard Bell</li> <li>Operations: <a href="/wiki/Brigadier_general_(United_States)" title="Brigadier general (United States)">BG</a> Michael J. Simmering</li> <li>Support: <a href="/wiki/Colonel_(United_States)" title="Colonel (United States)">COL</a> Alric L. Francis</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Fort Bliss</b> is a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a> post in <a href="/wiki/New_Mexico" title="New Mexico">New Mexico</a> and <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>, with its headquarters in <a href="/wiki/El_Paso,_Texas" title="El Paso, Texas">El Paso, Texas</a>. Named in honor of <a href="/wiki/William_Wallace_Smith_Bliss" title="William Wallace Smith Bliss">LTC William Bliss</a> (1815–1853), a mathematics professor who was the son-in-law of President <a href="/wiki/Zachary_Taylor" title="Zachary Taylor">Zachary Taylor</a>, Ft. Bliss has an area of about 1,700 square miles (4,400 km<sup>2</sup>); it is the largest installation in <a href="/wiki/FORSCOM" class="mw-redirect" title="FORSCOM">FORSCOM</a> (United States Army Forces Command) and second-largest in the Army overall (the largest being the adjacent <a href="/wiki/White_Sands_Missile_Range" title="White Sands Missile Range">White Sands Missile Range</a>). The portion of the post located in <a href="/wiki/El_Paso_County,_Texas" title="El Paso County, Texas">El Paso County, Texas</a>, is a <a href="/wiki/Census-designated_place" title="Census-designated place">census-designated place</a> with a population of 8,591 as of the time of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Census,_2010" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Census, 2010">2010 census</a>. Fort Bliss provides the largest contiguous tract (1,500 sq mi or 3,900 km<sup>2</sup>) of restricted airspace<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in the <a href="/wiki/Continental_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Continental United States">Continental United States</a>, used for missile and artillery training and testing, and at 992,000 acres (401,000 ha) boasts the largest maneuver area (ahead of the <a href="/wiki/Fort_Irwin_National_Training_Center" title="Fort Irwin National Training Center">National Training Center</a>, which has 642,000 acres (260,000 ha)).<sup id="cite_ref-gs_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gs-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The garrison's land area is accounted at 1.12 million acres (0.45<span style="margin-left:0.2em">×<span style="margin-left:0.1em">10</span></span><s style="display:none">^</s><sup>6</sup> ha), ranging to the boundaries of the <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_National_Forest" title="Lincoln National Forest">Lincoln National Forest</a> and <a href="/wiki/White_Sands_Missile_Range" title="White Sands Missile Range">White Sands Missile Range</a> in New Mexico.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fort Bliss also includes the <a href="/wiki/Castner_Range_National_Monument" title="Castner Range National Monument">Castner Range National Monument</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Units">Units</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Units"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Fort Bliss is home to the <a href="/wiki/1st_Armored_Division_(United_States)" title="1st Armored Division (United States)">1st Armored Division</a>, which returned to US soil in 2011 after 40 years in Germany.<sup id="cite_ref-1stAD2011_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1stAD2011-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The division is supported by the <a href="/wiki/1st_Armored_Division_Sustainment_Brigade" title="1st Armored Division Sustainment Brigade">1st Armored Division Sustainment Brigade</a>. The installation is also home to <a href="/wiki/Joint_Task_Force_North" title="Joint Task Force North">Joint Task Force North</a> (JTF), a joint service command. JTF North supports federal law enforcement agencies in the conduct of counterdrug/counter transnational organized crime operations; it facilitates DoD training in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Northern_Command" title="United States Northern Command">United States Northern Command</a> (USNORTHCOM) area of responsibility to disrupt transnational criminal organizations and deter their freedom of action in order to protect the homeland and increase DoD unit readiness. The <a href="/wiki/32nd_Army_Air_and_Missile_Defense_Command" title="32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command">32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command</a> (AAMDC) is a theater level Army air and missile defense multi component organization with a worldwide, 72 hour deployment mission. It is the <a href="/wiki/Army_Forces_Command" class="mw-redirect" title="Army Forces Command">Army Forces Command</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joint_Force_Land_Component_Commander" title="Joint Force Land Component Commander">Joint Force Land Component Commanders</a>' (ARFOR / JFLCC) organization that performs critical theater air and missile defense planning, integration, coordination, and execution functions. The <a href="/wiki/Joint_Modernization_Command" title="Joint Modernization Command">Joint Modernization Command</a> (JMC) plans, prepares, and executes Joint Warfighting Assessments and other concept and capability assessments, provides objective analysis and feasible recommendations to enhance Multi Domain Command and Control and inform Army Modernization decisions. On order, JMC conducts directed assessments in support of the Cross Functional Teams of <a href="/wiki/Army_Futures_Command" class="mw-redirect" title="Army Futures Command">Army Futures Command</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="1st_Armored_Division">1st Armored Division</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 1st Armored Division"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>1st Armored Division units include: 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division ("Ready First") is prepared to deploy, conduct decisive and sustainable land operations in support of a division, Joint Task Force, or Multinational Force. The Brigade will be trained and ready to conduct decisive action as part of Combined Arms Maneuver or Wide Area Security operations IOT disrupt or destroy enemy military forces, control land, and be prepared to conduct combat operations to protect U.S. national interests. </p><p>2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division ("Strike") is prepared to deploy, conduct decisive and sustainable land operations in support of a division, Joint Task Force, or Multinational Force. The Brigade will be trained and ready to conduct decisive action as part of Combined Arms Maneuver or Wide Area Security operations IOT disrupt or destroy enemy military forces, control land, and be prepared to conduct combat operations to protect U.S. national interests. </p><p>3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division ("Bulldog") is prepared to deploy, conduct decisive and sustainable land operations in support of a division, Joint Task Force, or Multinational Force. The Brigade will be trained and ready to conduct decisive action as part of Combined Arms Maneuver or Wide Area Security operations IOT disrupt or destroy enemy military forces, control land, and be prepared to conduct combat operations to protect U.S. national interests. </p><p>1st Armored Division Combat Aviation Brigade ("Iron Eagles") conducts aviation operations to support geographic combatant commanders conducting unified land operations. </p><p>1st Armored Division Artillery ("Iron Steel") provides direct support, precision strike, and Joint Fires capability to the 1st Armored Division for Unified Land Operations in support of the Division's contingency operations. 1AD DIVARTY provides trained and ready fire support forces and assists BCT Commanders in training their fire support systems. </p><p>1st Armored Division Sustainment ("Muleskinners") provides mission command of assigned, attached, and OPCON Echelons above Brigade sustainment units and synchronize distribution and sustainment operations in support of 1st Armored Division, and other aligned units. On order, rapidly deploy to designated contingency areas; receive, integrate, and provide mission command of sustainment units providing operational and tactical sustainment; and perform theater opening, theater distribution, and sustainment operations in support of Unified Land Operations. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Additional_units/agencies"><span id="Additional_units.2Fagencies"></span>Additional units/agencies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Additional units/agencies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Buzzword plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-style" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/40px-Edit-clear.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/60px-Edit-clear.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/80px-Edit-clear.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section appears to <b>contain a large number of <a href="/wiki/Buzzword" title="Buzzword">buzzwords</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> There might be a discussion about this on the <a href="/wiki/Talk:Fort_Bliss" title="Talk:Fort Bliss">talk page</a>. Please help <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit">improve this section</a> if you can.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">October 2023</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The NCO Leadership Center of Excellence (<a href="/wiki/Center_of_excellence#United_States_Army" title="Center of excellence">NCOL CoE</a>): Academic institution for noncommissioned officers aligned under Army University and the Combined Arms Command, with additional reporting to Training and Doctrine Command. Provides professional military education to DoD and allied noncommissioned officers. </p><p>The United States Army Sergeants Major Academy (<a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Sergeants_Major_Academy" title="United States Army Sergeants Major Academy">USASMA</a>) was accredited as a branch campus of the Command and General Staff College (<a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Command_and_General_Staff_College" title="United States Army Command and General Staff College">CGSC</a>) in 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-cgsc_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cgsc-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> CGSC Combined Arms Center Execution Order, dated 21 March 2018, made USASMA the 4th campus of CGSC. On 21 June 2019 USASMA Class 69 became the first students from the Sergeants Major Course to earn Bachelors of Arts in Leadership and Workforce Development (Staff College) through USASMA.<sup id="cite_ref-cgsc_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cgsc-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The accreditation process took 10 years, beginning with the last officer commandant, Col. Donald E. Gentry.<sup id="cite_ref-cgsc_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cgsc-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/11th_Air_Defense_Artillery_Brigade" class="mw-redirect" title="11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade">11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade</a>: Known as the "Imperial" Brigade, it strategically deploys combat ready units globally in support of the 32nd AAMDC to conduct joint and combined air and missile defense operations in order to protect the Combatant Commander's critical priorities. O/O, conducts reset and training of Patriot, Avenger Iron Dome, and <a href="/wiki/Terminal_High_Altitude_Area_Defense" title="Terminal High Altitude Area Defense">Terminal High Altitude Area Defense</a> (THAAD) units. </p><p>William Beaumont Army Medical Center (WBAMC) </p><p>The 5th Armored Brigade: The brigade plans, coordinates, synchronizes, and supports the pre/post mobilization training and demobilization of Army National Guard and United States Army Reserve units in order to provide trained and ready forces for worldwide contingencies. On order, deploys exportable OC/T teams in support of the Army Total Force Policy. </p><p>The Fort Bliss Mobilization Brigade: The brigade provides all administrative and logistical aspects of Title 10 support to mobilizing/demobilizing units. Act as focal point for installation support and quality of life issues. Coordinate requirements and integrate mobilization support. Provides personnel and logistical readiness validation input. </p><p>The CONUS Replacement Center: CRC receives, processes, equips, and conducts Theater Specific Individual Requirements Training (TSIRT) for military Non Unit Related Personnel (NRP), Department of Defense (DoD) Civilians, and Non Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (Non LOGCAP) Contactors deploying to and redeploying from theaters of operations in support of overseas contingency operations. </p><p>The Army Field Support Battalion (AFSBn): AFSBn is responsible for enhancing the readiness of Active, Reserve and National Guard units and continuously synchronizing the distribution of sustainment materiel and force projection at the Installation and field level in order to support the Materiel Enterprise and combat readiness of supported units and contingency operations. </p><p>The Network Enterprise Command: This unit defends the security of the Army Global Network Construct, provides transparent<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (October 2023)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> delivery of Command, Control, Communications and Computer (C4) Information Technology (IT services to customers). </p><p>The Civilian Personnel Advisory Center (CPAC) -- Desert Mountain: CPAC is responsible for assisting customers in recruiting, developing and sustaining a professional civilian workforce through human resource products<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (October 2023)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> and advisory services. </p><p>The headquarters for the <a href="/wiki/El_Paso_Intelligence_Center" title="El Paso Intelligence Center">El Paso Intelligence Center</a> (EPIC), a federal tactical operational intelligence center, is hosted at Fort Bliss. Its <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense" title="United States Department of Defense">DoD</a> (United States Department of Defense) counterpart, <a href="/wiki/Joint_Task_Force_North" title="Joint Task Force North">Joint Task Force North</a>, is at <a href="/wiki/Biggs_Army_Airfield" title="Biggs Army Airfield">Biggs Army Airfield</a>. Biggs Field, a military airport<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> located at Fort Bliss, is designated a <a href="/wiki/Power_projection" title="Power projection">military power projection</a> platform.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Fort_Bliss_National_Cemetery" title="Fort Bliss National Cemetery">Fort Bliss National Cemetery</a> is located on the post. Other forts in the frontier fort system were Forts <a href="/wiki/Fort_Griffin" title="Fort Griffin">Griffin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fort_Concho" title="Fort Concho">Concho</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fort_Belknap_(Newcastle,_Texas)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Belknap (Newcastle, Texas)">Belknap</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fort_Chadbourne" title="Fort Chadbourne">Chadbourne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fort_Stockton,_Texas" title="Fort Stockton, Texas">Stockton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fort_Davis_National_Historic_Site" title="Fort Davis National Historic Site">Davis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fort_Richardson,_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Richardson, Texas">Richardson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fort_McKavett_State_Historic_Site" title="Fort McKavett State Historic Site">McKavett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fort_Clark,_Texas" title="Fort Clark, Texas">Clark</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fort_McIntosh,_Texas" title="Fort McIntosh, Texas">McIntosh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fort_Inge" title="Fort Inge">Inge</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Fort_Phantom_Hill" title="Fort Phantom Hill">Phantom Hill</a> in Texas, and <a href="/wiki/Fort_Sill" title="Fort Sill">Fort Sill</a> in <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There were "sub posts or intermediate stations" including Bothwick's Station on Salt Creek between Fort Richardson and Fort Belknap, Camp Wichita near Buffalo Springs between Fort Richardson and <a href="/wiki/Red_River_Station,_Texas" title="Red River Station, Texas">Red River Station</a>, and Mountain Pass between Fort Concho and Fort Griffin.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Infrastructure">Infrastructure</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Infrastructure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>DoD's second largest installation at 1.12M acres; abuts the largest, <a href="/wiki/White_Sands_Missile_Range" title="White Sands Missile Range">White Sands Missile Range</a></li> <li>Maneuver acreage (heavy and light): 924,640.2 acres</li> <li>Only Digital Air Ground Integration Range (DAGIR) built to full Army specifications</li> <li>Longest runway in the Army, 8th in DoD</li> <li>Major trauma center (plus the new <a href="/wiki/WBAMC" class="mw-redirect" title="WBAMC">WBAMC</a>)</li> <li>One of the largest single solar residential community in the continental US (4K+ homes) with potential to expand</li> <li>Total building gross square footage (GSF) (less housing): 24,499,406 SF; 2,139 total buildings</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_locations">Early locations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Early locations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Post_opposite_El_Paso_del_Norte_(1849–1854)"><span id="Post_opposite_El_Paso_del_Norte_.281849.E2.80.931854.29"></span>Post opposite El Paso del Norte (1849–1854)</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Post opposite El Paso del Norte (1849–1854)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fort_Bliss_ca._1885.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Fort_Bliss_ca._1885.jpg/220px-Fort_Bliss_ca._1885.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="123" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Fort_Bliss_ca._1885.jpg/330px-Fort_Bliss_ca._1885.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Fort_Bliss_ca._1885.jpg/440px-Fort_Bliss_ca._1885.jpg 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="419" /></a><figcaption>Fort Bliss in 1885. Photo courtesy of <a href="/wiki/Southern_Methodist_University" title="Southern Methodist University">SMU</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fort_Bliss_1948_Issue-3c.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Fort_Bliss_1948_Issue-3c.jpg/180px-Fort_Bliss_1948_Issue-3c.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="198" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Fort_Bliss_1948_Issue-3c.jpg/270px-Fort_Bliss_1948_Issue-3c.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Fort_Bliss_1948_Issue-3c.jpg/360px-Fort_Bliss_1948_Issue-3c.jpg 2x" data-file-width="624" data-file-height="686" /></a><figcaption><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">Fort Bliss <a href="/wiki/U.S._space_exploration_history_on_U.S._stamps" title="U.S. space exploration history on U.S. stamps">100th Anniversary Issue</a> of 1948</div></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1846, <a href="/wiki/Colonel_(United_States)" title="Colonel (United States)">Colonel</a> <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Doniphan" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Doniphan">Alexander Doniphan</a> led <a href="/wiki/Mexican_American_War_campaigns#Monterrey,_21_September_1846" class="mw-redirect" title="Mexican American War campaigns">1st Regiment of Missouri mounted volunteers</a> through <a href="/wiki/El_Paso_del_Norte" class="mw-redirect" title="El Paso del Norte">El Paso del Norte</a>, with victories at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_El_Brazito" title="Battle of El Brazito">Battle of El Brazito</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Sacramento" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of the Sacramento">Battle of the Sacramento</a>. Then on 7 November 1848, War Department General Order no. 58 ordered the establishment of a post<sup id="cite_ref-Metz_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metz-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> across from <a href="/wiki/Ciudad_Ju%C3%A1rez" title="Ciudad Juárez">El Paso del Norte (now Ciudad Juárez)</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-LavenHistory_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LavenHistory-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 8 September 1849, the garrison party of several companies of the <a href="/wiki/3rd_United_States_Infantry_Regiment_(TOG)" class="mw-redirect" title="3rd United States Infantry Regiment (TOG)">3rd U.S. Infantry</a> ('The Old Guard', currently the oldest active duty regiment in the US Army), commanded by <a href="/wiki/Jefferson_Van_Horne" title="Jefferson Van Horne">Major Jefferson Van Horne</a>, found only four small and scattered settlements on the north side of the <a href="/wiki/Rio_Grande" title="Rio Grande">Rio Grande</a>. The <i>Post Opposite El Paso del Norte</i> was first established at the site of Coon's Ranch (often erroneously referred to as Smith's Ranch, now downtown <a href="/wiki/El_Paso,_Texas" title="El Paso, Texas">El Paso</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-Metz_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metz-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 21">: 21 </span></sup> and, along with <a href="/wiki/Fort_Selden" title="Fort Selden">Fort Selden</a> and other Southwestern outposts, protected recently won territory from harassing <a href="/wiki/Apache" title="Apache">Apaches</a> and <a href="/wiki/Comanche" title="Comanche">Comanches</a>, provided law and order, and escorted the <a href="/wiki/California_Gold_Rush#Forty-niners" class="mw-redirect" title="California Gold Rush">forty-niners</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Metz_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metz-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 17">: 17 </span></sup> <a href="/wiki/Jefferson_Van_Horne" title="Jefferson Van Horne">Van Horne</a> also had nominal command of the <a href="/wiki/San_Elizario,_Texas" title="San Elizario, Texas">Post at San Elizario</a>, the former <i>Presidio of San Elizario</i>, seventeen miles downstream from El Paso del Norte.<sup id="cite_ref-Metz_14-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metz-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 9, 17">: 9, 17 </span></sup> With constant Indian raids, garrisons had to be moved frequently to meet the shifting threats. In September 1851, the Post Opposite El Paso and the Post at San Elizario were closed, the soldiers moved 40 miles (64 km) north to <a href="/wiki/Fort_Fillmore" title="Fort Fillmore">Fort Fillmore</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Metz_14-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metz-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 20–21">: 20–21 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Post_of_El_Paso_(1854),_Fort_Bliss,_(1854–1868)"><span id="Post_of_El_Paso_.281854.29.2C_Fort_Bliss.2C_.281854.E2.80.931868.29"></span>Post of El Paso (1854), Fort Bliss, (1854–1868)</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Post of El Paso (1854), Fort Bliss, (1854–1868)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 11 January 1854, Companies B, E, I and K of the <a href="/wiki/8th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)" title="8th Infantry Regiment (United States)">8th Infantry</a>, under the command of Lt. Col. <a href="/wiki/Edmund_B._Alexander" class="mw-redirect" title="Edmund B. Alexander">Edmund B. Alexander</a>, established Post of El Paso at <a href="/w/index.php?title=Magoffinsville&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Magoffinsville (page does not exist)">Magoffinsville</a> under orders from <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of War">Secretary of War</a> <a href="/wiki/Jefferson_Davis" title="Jefferson Davis">Jefferson Davis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Metz_14-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metz-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 23">: 23 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The post was named 'Fort Bliss' on 8 March 1854<sup id="cite_ref-Metz_14-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metz-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 23">: 23 </span></sup> in honor of Lt. Col. <a href="/wiki/William_Wallace_Smith_Bliss" title="William Wallace Smith Bliss">William Wallace Smith Bliss</a>, a veteran of the Mexican War (1846-1848) who was cited for gallantry in action. </p><p>There it remained for the next 14 years, serving as a base for troops guarding the area against Apache attacks. Until 1861 most of these troops were units of the 8th Infantry Regiment.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the outbreak of the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_E._Twiggs" title="David E. Twiggs">David E. Twiggs</a>, the Commander of the <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Texas" title="Department of Texas">Department of Texas</a>, ordered the garrison to <a href="/wiki/Surrender_(military)" title="Surrender (military)">surrender</a> Fort Bliss to <a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America">the Confederacy</a>, which Col. <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Van_Duzen_Reeve" title="Isaac Van Duzen Reeve">Isaac Van Duzen Reeve</a> did on 31 March 1861.<sup id="cite_ref-Metz_14-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metz-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 29">: 29 </span></sup> (Companies B, E, F, H, I, and K were captured by the Confederacy and remained prisoners of war until 25 February 1863 in Texas, with Company A returning safely to the North with their Colors on 26 May 1861.)<sup id="cite_ref-wilson_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wilson-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Confederate forces consisting of the 2nd Regiment of Texas, under the command of Col. <a href="/wiki/John_R._Baylor" title="John R. Baylor">John R. Baylor</a>, took the post on 1 July 1861,<sup id="cite_ref-Metz_14-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metz-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 29">: 29 </span></sup> and used it as a platform to launch <a href="/wiki/Trans-Mississippi_Theater_of_the_American_Civil_War#Confederate_Territory_of_Arizona_and_Federal_New_Mexico_Territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War">attacks into New Mexico and Arizona</a> in an effort to force the Union garrisons still in these states to surrender. Initially the Confederate Army had success in their attempts to <a href="/wiki/New_Mexico_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="New Mexico Campaign">gain control of New Mexico</a>, but following the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Glorieta_Pass" title="Battle of Glorieta Pass">Battle of Glorieta Pass</a>, the Confederate soldiers were forced to retreat when their supply lines were cut.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Confederate garrison abandoned Fort Bliss without a fight the next year when a <a href="/wiki/California_Column" title="California Column">Federal column of 2,350 men</a> under the command of Colonel <a href="/wiki/James_H._Carleton" class="mw-redirect" title="James H. Carleton">James H. Carleton</a> advanced from California.<sup id="cite_ref-Metz_14-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metz-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 30">: 30 </span></sup> The Californians maintained an irregular garrison at Fort Bliss until 1865, when <a href="/wiki/5th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)" title="5th Infantry Regiment (United States)">5th Infantry</a> units arrived to reestablish the post; these were subsequently relieved by the <a href="/wiki/25th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)" title="25th Infantry Regiment (United States)">25th Infantry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Soldier" title="Buffalo Soldier">Buffalo Soldiers</a>, on 12 August 1866, followed by the 35th Infantry two months later.<sup id="cite_ref-Metz_14-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metz-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 33, 35">: 33, 35 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Camp_Concordia_(1868–1876)"><span id="Camp_Concordia_.281868.E2.80.931876.29"></span>Camp Concordia (1868–1876)</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Camp Concordia (1868–1876)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After May 1867 <a href="/wiki/Rio_Grande" title="Rio Grande">Rio Grande</a> flooding seriously damaged the Magoffinsville post, Fort Bliss was moved to a site called 'Camp Concordia' in March 1868.<sup id="cite_ref-Metz_14-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metz-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 35">: 35 </span></sup> Camp Concordia's location was immediately south of what is now <a href="/wiki/Interstate_10" title="Interstate 10">Interstate 10</a>, across from Concordia Cemetery in El Paso. The <a href="/wiki/Rio_Grande" title="Rio Grande">Rio Grande</a> was about a mile south of the camp at that time; water was hauled daily by mule team to the camp. On 11 March 1869 the old name of Fort Bliss was resumed.<sup id="cite_ref-Metz_14-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metz-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 36">: 36 </span></sup> Water, heating, and sanitation facilities were at a minimum in the <a href="/wiki/Adobe" title="Adobe">adobe</a> buildings of the fort; records reveal that troops suffered severely from <a href="/wiki/Dysentery" title="Dysentery">dysentery</a> and <a href="/wiki/Malaria" title="Malaria">malaria</a> and that supplies arrived irregularly over the <a href="/wiki/Santa_Fe_Trail" title="Santa Fe Trail">Santa Fe Trail</a> by <a href="/wiki/Wagon_train" title="Wagon train">wagon train</a>. The Concordia post was abandoned in January 1877,<sup id="cite_ref-Metz_14-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metz-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 36">: 36 </span></sup> and after troops left in January, El Paso was without a garrison for more than a year. By that time, the town and its environs on the north side of the river had swelled to a population of almost 800. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Hart's_Mill_(1878–1893)"><span id="Hart.27s_Mill_.281878.E2.80.931893.29"></span>Hart's Mill (1878–1893)</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Hart's Mill (1878–1893)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Aerial_view_Fort_Bliss_1968.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Aerial_view_Fort_Bliss_1968.jpg/220px-Aerial_view_Fort_Bliss_1968.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Aerial_view_Fort_Bliss_1968.jpg/330px-Aerial_view_Fort_Bliss_1968.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Aerial_view_Fort_Bliss_1968.jpg/440px-Aerial_view_Fort_Bliss_1968.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1515" data-file-height="996" /></a><figcaption>Aerial view of Fort Bliss, 1968, with Northeast El Paso in background</figcaption></figure> <p>On New Year's Day,1878,<sup id="cite_ref-Metz_14-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metz-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 36">: 36 </span></sup> Fort Bliss was established as a permanent post; the Company L <a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Soldier" title="Buffalo Soldier">Buffalo Soldiers</a> of the <a href="/wiki/9th_Cavalry_Regiment_(United_States)" title="9th Cavalry Regiment (United States)">Ninth Cavalry</a> and Company C of the <a href="/wiki/15th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)" title="15th Infantry Regiment (United States)">15th Infantry</a>, were sent to Fort Bliss to prevent further <a href="/wiki/San_Elizario_Salt_War" title="San Elizario Salt War">trouble over the salt beds</a> and the usage of Rio Grande water for irrigation purposes.<sup id="cite_ref-Metz_14-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metz-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 36, 39">: 36, 39 </span></sup> Prior to this date, the government had had a policy of simply leasing property for its military installations. Now, however, a tract of 135 acres (0.55 km<sup>2</sup>) was purchased at Hart's Mill on the river's edge in the Pass, near what is today the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_El_Paso" title="University of Texas at El Paso">UTEP</a>. With a $40,000 appropriation, a building program was begun. The first railroad arrived in 1881, and tracks were laid across the military reservation, thereby solving the supply problems for the fort and the rapidly growing town of El Paso. By 1890, Hart's Mill had outlived its usefulness, and Congress appropriated $150,000 for construction of a military installation<sup id="cite_ref-Metz_14-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metz-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 50">: 50 </span></sup> on the mesa approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) east of El Paso's 1890 city limits. Although no money was appropriated for the land, $8,250 was easily raised by the local residents, who realized the economic benefit to the area.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:PoloField,FtBliss.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/PoloField%2CFtBliss.JPG/220px-PoloField%2CFtBliss.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="79" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/PoloField%2CFtBliss.JPG/330px-PoloField%2CFtBliss.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/PoloField%2CFtBliss.JPG/440px-PoloField%2CFtBliss.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2270" data-file-height="819" /></a><figcaption>Ruhlen's 1893 buildings (currently offices) still stand at Fort Bliss, as do the officers' quarters.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Present_site_(1893–today)"><span id="Present_site_.281893.E2.80.93today.29"></span>Present site (1893–today)</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Present site (1893–today)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The present site of Fort Bliss on La Noria mesa,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was laid out by Captain John Ruhlen from 1891 to 1892 and was first occupied by four companies of the <a href="/wiki/18th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)" title="18th Infantry Regiment (United States)">18th Infantry</a> in October 1893.<sup id="cite_ref-Metz_14-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metz-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 50">: 50 </span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pershing_expedition">Pershing expedition</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Pershing expedition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Camping_on_the_Border,_near_El_Paso,_Texas.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Camping_on_the_Border%2C_near_El_Paso%2C_Texas.jpg/220px-Camping_on_the_Border%2C_near_El_Paso%2C_Texas.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Camping_on_the_Border%2C_near_El_Paso%2C_Texas.jpg/330px-Camping_on_the_Border%2C_near_El_Paso%2C_Texas.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Camping_on_the_Border%2C_near_El_Paso%2C_Texas.jpg/440px-Camping_on_the_Border%2C_near_El_Paso%2C_Texas.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3274" data-file-height="2078" /></a><figcaption>Pershing's camp at the western edge of the present-day Fort Bliss area, 1916</figcaption></figure> <p>In January 1914, <a href="/wiki/John_J._Pershing" title="John J. Pershing">John J. Pershing</a> arrived<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in El Paso to take command of the Army 8th Brigade that was stationed at Fort Bliss. At the time, the <a href="/wiki/Mexican_Revolution" title="Mexican Revolution">Mexican Revolution</a> was underway in Mexico, and the 8th Brigade had been assigned the task of securing the <a href="/wiki/Mexico%E2%80%93United_States_border" title="Mexico–United States border">Mexico–United States border</a>. In March 1915, under the command of General <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Funston" title="Frederick Funston">Frederick Funston</a>, Pershing led the 8th Brigade on the failed 1916–1917 <a href="/wiki/Pancho_Villa_Expedition#Campaign" title="Pancho Villa Expedition">Punitive Expedition</a> into Mexico in search of outlaw <a href="/wiki/Pancho_Villa" title="Pancho Villa">Pancho Villa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On Friday, 11 March 2016, members of the 2nd Squadron, 13th Cavalry Regiment, (3rd BCT, 1st Armored Division, Fort Bliss) conducted a <a href="/wiki/Staff_ride" title="Staff ride">staff ride</a> at <a href="/wiki/Pancho_Villa_State_Park" class="mw-redirect" title="Pancho Villa State Park">Pancho Villa State Park</a>, NM, the former site of Camp Furlong, 2nd Squadron's billet in 1915. They reviewed the terrain of the 9 March 1916 raid by <a href="/wiki/Pancho_Villa" title="Pancho Villa">Pancho Villa</a>'s forces on the unit 100 years before. 2nd Squadron then participated in a parade with <a href="/wiki/Historical_reenactment" title="Historical reenactment">reenactors</a>, and Roll Call of the fallen.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During this time, the <a href="/wiki/Biggs_Army_Airfield" title="Biggs Army Airfield">military airfield in El Paso</a> would become one of the homes to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Border_Air_Patrol" title="United States Army Border Air Patrol">United States Army Border Air Patrol</a> and the <a href="/wiki/1st_Aero_Squadron" class="mw-redirect" title="1st Aero Squadron">1st Aero Squadron</a>, the U.S. Army's first tactical unit equipped with airplanes. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_War_I_and_postwar">World War I and postwar</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: World War I and postwar"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As <a href="/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="American Expeditionary Force">American Expeditionary Forces</a> (AEF) commander (1917–1918), <a href="/wiki/John_J._Pershing" title="John J. Pershing">John J. Pershing</a> transferred to Fort Bliss and was responsible for the organization, training, and supply of an inexperienced force that eventually grew from 27,000 men to over 2,000,000—the <a href="/wiki/National_Army_(USA)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Army (USA)">National Army</a> of <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>. </p><p>From 10 December 1917 – 12 May 1918, the wartime <a href="/wiki/1st_Cavalry_Division_(United_States)#1920s_and_1930s" title="1st Cavalry Division (United States)">15th Cavalry Division</a> existed at Fort Bliss. Similarly, the <a href="/wiki/1st_Cavalry_Division_(United_States)#1920s_and_1930s" title="1st Cavalry Division (United States)">Headquarters, 2nd Cavalry Brigade</a> was initially activated at Fort Bliss on 10 December 1917 and then deactivated in July 1919, but then reactivated at Fort Bliss on 31 August 1920. Predominantly a cavalry post since 1912, Fort Bliss acquired three light <a href="/wiki/Armored_car_(military)" title="Armored car (military)">armored cars</a>, eight medium armored cars, two motorcycles, and two trucks on 8 November 1928.<sup id="cite_ref-Metz_14-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metz-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_War_II_and_postwar">World War II and postwar</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: World War II and postwar"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, Fort Bliss focused on training <a href="/wiki/Anti-aircraft_warfare" title="Anti-aircraft warfare">anti-aircraft artillery battalions</a> (AAA). In September 1940 the Coast Artillery's anti-aircraft training center was established, and in 1941 the <a href="/wiki/List_of_units_using_the_B-26_Marauder_during_World_War_II#Tow_target_squadrons" class="mw-redirect" title="List of units using the B-26 Marauder during World War II">1st Tow Target Squadron</a> arrived to fly <a href="/wiki/Target_drone" title="Target drone">target drones</a><sup id="cite_ref-Metz_14-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metz-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (the <a href="/wiki/List_of_units_using_the_B-26_Marauder_during_World_War_II#Tow_target_squadrons" class="mw-redirect" title="List of units using the B-26 Marauder during World War II">6th, 19th, and 27th Tow Target Squadrons</a> were at the nearby <a href="/wiki/Biggs_Army_Airfield" title="Biggs Army Airfield">Biggs Field</a>). On 3 August 1944, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Defense_Artillery_School" title="United States Army Air Defense Artillery School">Anti-Aircraft Artillery School</a> was ordered from <a href="/wiki/Camp_Davis" class="mw-redirect" title="Camp Davis">Camp Davis</a> to Fort Bliss to make the training of anti-aircraft gunners easier, and they became the dominant force at Fort Bliss following the departure of the <a href="/wiki/1st_Cavalry_Division_(United_States)" title="1st Cavalry Division (United States)">U.S. 1st Cavalry Division</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Metz_14-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metz-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 15 September 1942, the War Dept. made space available for handling up to 1,350 POWs, while POW camps could be constructed.<sup id="cite_ref-Krammer_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Krammer-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the war, the base was used to hold approximately 91 <a href="/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans" title="Internment of German Americans">German</a>, <a href="/wiki/Internment_of_Italian_Americans" title="Internment of Italian Americans">Italian</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans" title="Internment of Japanese Americans">Japanese</a> Americans from Hawaii (then a territory), who were arrested as potential <a href="/wiki/Fifth_column" title="Fifth column">fifth columnists</a> but, in most cases, denied due process.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Project_Paperclip_Team_at_Fort_Bliss.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Project_Paperclip_Team_at_Fort_Bliss.jpg/320px-Project_Paperclip_Team_at_Fort_Bliss.jpg" decoding="async" width="320" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Project_Paperclip_Team_at_Fort_Bliss.jpg/480px-Project_Paperclip_Team_at_Fort_Bliss.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Project_Paperclip_Team_at_Fort_Bliss.jpg/640px-Project_Paperclip_Team_at_Fort_Bliss.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="1310" /></a><figcaption>Group of 104 <a href="/wiki/Operation_Paperclip" title="Operation Paperclip">Operation Paperclip</a> <a href="/wiki/Rocket_scientist" class="mw-redirect" title="Rocket scientist">rocket scientists</a> in 1946 at Fort Bliss (35 were at <a href="/wiki/White_Sands_Proving_Grounds" class="mw-redirect" title="White Sands Proving Grounds">White Sands Proving Grounds</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-McCleskey_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCleskey-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>By February 1946, over 100 <a href="/wiki/Operation_Paperclip" title="Operation Paperclip">Operation Paperclip</a> German scientists and engineers had arrived to develop <a href="/wiki/Rocket" title="Rocket">rockets</a> and were attached to the Office of the Chief of <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Ordnance_Corps" title="United States Army Ordnance Corps">Ordnance Corps</a>, Research and Development Service, Suboffice (Rocket), headed by Major James P. Hamill.<sup id="cite_ref-McGovern_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McGovern-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although these men were initially "pretty much kept <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/on_ice" class="extiw" title="wikt:on ice">on ice</a>" (resulting in the nickname "Operation Icebox"),<sup id="cite_ref-McGovern_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McGovern-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> they were subsequently divided into a research group and a group who assisted with <a href="/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches" title="List of V-2 test launches">V-2 test launches</a> at <a href="/wiki/White_Sands_Missile_Range" title="White Sands Missile Range">White Sands Proving Grounds</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Huzel_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Huzel-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> German families began arriving in December 1946,<sup id="cite_ref-McGovern_30-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McGovern-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and by the spring of 1948, the number of German rocket specialists (nicknamed "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=8jIeqqCkDHQC&dq=%22prisoners+of+peace%22+%22von+braun%22&pg=PA63">Prisoners of Peace</a>") in the US was 127.<sup id="cite_ref-McGovern_30-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McGovern-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fort Bliss rocket launches included firings of the <a href="/wiki/Private_(rocket)" title="Private (rocket)">Private missile</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Hueco_Mountains" title="Hueco Mountains">Hueco Range</a> in April 1945.<sup id="cite_ref-Ley_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ley-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1953, funding cuts caused the cancellation of work on the <a href="/wiki/Hermes_project" class="mw-redirect" title="Hermes project">Hermes B2 ramjet</a> work that had begun at Fort Bliss.<sup id="cite_ref-Ordway_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ordway-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In late 1953 after troops had been trained at the Ft Bliss Guided Missile School, field-firing operations of the <a href="/wiki/MGM-5_Corporal" title="MGM-5 Corporal">MGM-5 Corporal</a> were underway at Red Canyon Range Camp, WSPG.<sup id="cite_ref-Corporal_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Corporal-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 263">: 263 </span></sup> In April 1950, the 1st Guided Missile Group named the <a href="/wiki/Republic-Ford_JB-2" title="Republic-Ford JB-2">Republic-Ford JB-2</a> the ARMY LOON.<sup id="cite_ref-Corporal_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Corporal-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 249">: 249 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cold_War">Cold War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Cold War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fort_Bliss_Facility_Map_Main_Area_1974.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Fort_Bliss_Facility_Map_Main_Area_1974.jpg/220px-Fort_Bliss_Facility_Map_Main_Area_1974.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="284" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Fort_Bliss_Facility_Map_Main_Area_1974.jpg/330px-Fort_Bliss_Facility_Map_Main_Area_1974.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Fort_Bliss_Facility_Map_Main_Area_1974.jpg/440px-Fort_Bliss_Facility_Map_Main_Area_1974.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1816" data-file-height="2341" /></a><figcaption>Fort Bliss facility map of main area in 1974</figcaption></figure> <p>Fort Bliss trained thousands of U.S. Soldiers during the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>. As the United States gradually came to master the art of building and operating missiles, Fort Bliss and <a href="/wiki/White_Sands_Missile_Range" title="White Sands Missile Range">White Sands Missile Range</a> became more and more important to the country, and were expanded accordingly. On 1 July 1957 the U.S. Army Air Defense Center was established at Fort Bliss. Located at this center, in addition to Center Headquarters, are the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Defense_Artillery_School" title="United States Army Air Defense Artillery School">U.S. Army Air Defense School</a>; Air Defense; the 6th Artillery Group (Air Defense); the 61st Ordnance Group; and other supporting elements.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1957 Fort Bliss and its anti-aircraft personnel began using <a href="/wiki/Nike_Ajax" class="mw-redirect" title="Nike Ajax">Nike Ajax</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nike_Hercules" title="Nike Hercules">Nike Hercules</a>, <a href="/wiki/MIM-23_Hawk" title="MIM-23 Hawk">Hawk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sprint_(missile)" title="Sprint (missile)">Sprint</a>, Chaparral, and <a href="/wiki/FIM-43_Redeye" title="FIM-43 Redeye">Redeye</a> missiles.<sup id="cite_ref-Metz_14-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metz-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fort Bliss took on the important role of providing a large area for troops to conduct <a href="/wiki/Live_fire_exercise" title="Live fire exercise">live fire exercises</a> with the missiles. </p><p>Because of the large number of Army personnel enrolled in the air defense school, Fort Bliss saw two large rounds of construction in 1954 and 1958. The former was aimed at creating more barracks facilities, while the latter was aimed at building new classrooms, materials labs, a radar park, and a missile laboratory.<sup id="cite_ref-Metz_14-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metz-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Between 1953 and 1957 the Army also expanded McGregor Range in an effort to accommodate live fire exercises of the new missile systems.<sup id="cite_ref-Metz_14-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metz-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Throughout the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> Fort Bliss remained a premier site for testing anti-aircraft equipment. </p><p>Fort Bliss was used as the Desert Stage of the <a href="/wiki/Ranger_School" title="Ranger School">Ranger School</a> training course to prepare Ranger School graduates for operations in the deserts of the Middle East. From 1983 to 1987, Fort Bliss was home to the Ranger School's newly formed 4th (Desert Ranger) Training Company. This unit was later expanded in 1987 to form the newly created <a href="/wiki/Ranger_Training_Brigade" class="mw-redirect" title="Ranger Training Brigade">Ranger Training Brigade</a>'s short-lived 7th Ranger Training Battalion, which was then transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Dugway_Proving_Grounds" class="mw-redirect" title="Dugway Proving Grounds">Dugway Proving Grounds</a> in <a href="/wiki/Utah" title="Utah">Utah</a>. The deserts of Utah proved to be unsuitable so the 7th Ranger Training Battalion was returned to Fort Bliss from 1991 until the Ranger School's Desert Phase was discontinued in 1995. </p><p>While the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Defense_Artillery_School" title="United States Army Air Defense Artillery School">United States Army Air Defense Artillery School</a> develops doctrine and tactics, training current and future soldiers has always been its core mission. Until 1990 the post was used for <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Basic_Training" title="United States Army Basic Training">Basic Training</a> and <a href="/wiki/Advanced_Individual_Training" class="mw-redirect" title="Advanced Individual Training">Advanced Individual Training</a> (AIT), under the 1/56 ADA Regiment and 2/56 ADA Regiment, part of 6th ADA. Before 1989, 1/56 had three basic training companies and two AIT <a href="/wiki/Artillery_battery" title="Artillery battery">batteries</a>. After 1990, 1/56 dropped basic training, that mission assumed by <a href="/wiki/Fort_Sill" title="Fort Sill">Fort Sill</a>. The unit now had four enlisted batteries for enlisted AIT, one battery for the Officer's Basic Course and Captain's Career Course (added in 2004) and one company that trained army truck drivers (<a href="/wiki/Military_Occupational_Specialty" class="mw-redirect" title="Military Occupational Specialty">MOS</a> 88M). </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Patriot_missile_launch_b.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Patriot_missile_launch_b.jpg/170px-Patriot_missile_launch_b.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="215" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Patriot_missile_launch_b.jpg/255px-Patriot_missile_launch_b.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Patriot_missile_launch_b.jpg/340px-Patriot_missile_launch_b.jpg 2x" data-file-width="474" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>A U.S. <a href="/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot" title="MIM-104 Patriot">Patriot Missile</a> fires from its launch canister</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Base_realignment_and_closure">Base realignment and closure</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Base realignment and closure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1995, the Department of Defense recommended that the <a href="/wiki/U.S._3rd_Armored_Cavalry_Regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment">U.S. 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment</a> be relocated to <a href="/wiki/Fort_Carson" title="Fort Carson">Fort Carson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Colorado" title="Colorado">Colorado</a>. Efforts to consolidate units from another post with those units that remained at Fort Bliss were overruled by the <a href="/wiki/Base_Realignment_and_Closing_Commission" class="mw-redirect" title="Base Realignment and Closing Commission">Base Realignment and Closing Commission</a>, leaving Fort Bliss without any armored vehicles. Units operating the US Army's <a href="/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot" title="MIM-104 Patriot">MIM-104 Patriot Missile Defense System</a> relocated to Fort Bliss during the 1990s. The Patriot system played an important role in the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_War" title="Gulf War">Persian Gulf War</a>/<a href="/wiki/Operation_Desert_Storm" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Desert Storm">Operation Desert Storm</a> in 1991. In commemoration, the <a href="/wiki/US_54" class="mw-redirect" title="US 54">US 54</a> expressway in northeast <a href="/wiki/El_Paso" class="mw-redirect" title="El Paso">El Paso</a> was designated the Patriot Freeway. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="War_on_terror">War on terror</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: War on terror"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the <a href="/wiki/September_11,_2001_attacks" class="mw-redirect" title="September 11, 2001 attacks">September 11, 2001 attacks</a>, Fort Bliss provided ADA Battalions for US and NATO use in Afghanistan and Iraq, and has served as one of the major deployment centers for troops bound for <a href="/wiki/Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> and <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>. This mission is accomplished via nearby <a href="/wiki/Biggs_Army_Airfield" title="Biggs Army Airfield">Biggs Army Airfield</a>, which is included in the installation's supporting areas. Following the <a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–present)">War in Afghanistan (2001–present)</a> in 2001 Fort Bliss began training Afghan security forces at the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Sergeants_Major_Academy" title="United States Army Sergeants Major Academy">U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy</a> at Fort Bliss, with the hope that these newly trained soldiers would eventually be able to take control of their own national security. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Base_Realignment_and_Closure,_2005"><span id="Base_Realignment_and_Closure.2C_2005"></span>Base Realignment and Closure, 2005</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Base Realignment and Closure, 2005"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Base_Realignment_and_Closure,_2005" class="mw-redirect" title="Base Realignment and Closure, 2005">Base Realignment and Closure, 2005</a></div> <p>In 2005, the Pentagon recommended transforming Fort Bliss into a heavy armor training post, to include approximately 11,500 new troops from the <a href="/wiki/1st_Armored_Division_(United_States)" title="1st Armored Division (United States)">U.S. 1st Armored Division</a> – at that time stationed in Germany – as well as units from <a href="/wiki/Fort_Sill" title="Fort Sill">Fort Sill</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fort_Hood" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Hood">Fort Hood</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-fiesta_time_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fiesta_time-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An estimated 15,918 military jobs and 384 civilian jobs were planned to be transferred to Fort Bliss, brought the total number of troops stationed at Fort Bliss under this alignment to a total of 33,500 by 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-archive.elpasotimes.com_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-archive.elpasotimes.com-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Officials from Fort Bliss and the City of El Paso were thrilled with the decision; the general mood of the city government was perfectly captured by 14 May edition of the <i><a href="/wiki/El_Paso_Times" title="El Paso Times">El Paso Times</a></i>, which boldly proclaimed "BLISS WINS BIG".<sup id="cite_ref-bliss_wins_big_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bliss_wins_big-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to <a href="/wiki/Texas_Senate" title="Texas Senate">Senator</a> <a href="/wiki/Eliot_Shapleigh" title="Eliot Shapleigh">Eliot Shapleigh</a>, the BRAC commission considered three primary factors to make its decision: The military value of Fort Bliss, the potential for other branches of the armed service to use a post as large as Fort Bliss, and the lack of urban encroachment around Fort Bliss that would otherwise hinder its growth.<sup id="cite_ref-fiesta_time_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fiesta_time-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The arrival of the 11,500 troops from the 1st Armored Division is also expected to create some 20,196 direct and indirect military and civilian jobs in El Paso. According to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense" title="United States Department of Defense">Department of Defense</a>, this is the largest net gain in the United States tied to the Base Realignment and Closure recommendations. Of the 20,196 new jobs expected to come to El Paso as a result of Bliss's realignment 9,000 would be indirect civilian jobs created by the influx of soldiers to the "Sun City". When the BRAC commission recommendations were released Senator <a href="/wiki/Kay_Bailey_Hutchison" title="Kay Bailey Hutchison">Kay Bailey Hutchison</a>'s spokesman reported that El Paso was the only area that came out with a major gain of forces.<sup id="cite_ref-jobs_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-jobs-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The news that El Paso had been selected to receive major elements of the 1st Armored Division was met with joy, but at the same time many expressed surprise at the panel's recommendation to transfer the Air Defense Artillery School, <a href="/wiki/6th_Air_Defense_Artillery_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="6th Air Defense Artillery (United States)">6th ADA Brigade</a>, and its accompanying equipment (including the <a href="/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot" title="MIM-104 Patriot">MIM-104 Patriot Missile Anti-Aircraft/Anti Missile defense system</a>) to <a href="/wiki/Fort_Sill" title="Fort Sill">Fort Sill</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bliss_wins_big_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bliss_wins_big-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 25 August officials representing Fort Bliss went before the BRAC Commission to plead their case for maintaining the ADA school and its accompanying equipment at Fort Bliss, citing among other thing the size of Fort Bliss and the history of the ADA school in the region.<sup id="cite_ref-gs_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gs-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The BRAC Commission ultimately ruled against Fort Bliss,<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the roughly 4,500 affected soldiers were transferred to <a href="/wiki/Fort_Sill,_Oklahoma" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Sill, Oklahoma">Fort Sill, Oklahoma</a>. The entire transfer of soldiers to and from Fort Bliss was completed no later than 15 September 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-gs_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gs-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 25 June 2009, authority over the post was shifted from <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Training_and_Doctrine_Command" title="United States Army Training and Doctrine Command">Training and Doctrine Command</a> to <a href="/wiki/FORSCOM" class="mw-redirect" title="FORSCOM">Forces Command</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Description">Description</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Description"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Among Fort Bliss's missions: </p> <ul><li>Home of America's Tank Division, 1st AD (One of 10 active divisions in the Army)</li> <li>Largest Joint Mobilization Force Generation Installation (JMFGI) in DoD (FY19: over 72K): 49K MOB/DeMOB/CRC; 23K Pre Mobilization Exercise Training (PMET)</li> <li>One of the largest Power Projection Platforms in the Army</li> <li>Home to the Army's ONLY CONUS Replacement Center (CRC)</li> <li>Interagency operations: El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC), Joint Task Force North (JTF-N), Department of Homeland Security (DHS)</li> <li>Joint Modernization Command (JMC)(Futures Command) conducts Joint Warfighter Assessments/Enhance Multi-Domain C2/Informs Army Modernization</li> <li>Ability to fire any weapon (pistol to missile)</li> <li>Provide anti-aircraft and missile defense capabilities.</li> <li>Conduct <a href="/wiki/Live_fire_exercise" title="Live fire exercise">live fire exercises</a> of nearly every type of Army weapon.</li> <li>Host joint military exercises with other U.S. and foreign units,<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Be home to many maintenance crews and supply units.</li> <li>Be one of the Army's premier bases for test-driving tanks and other equipment.</li> <li>House thousands of military vehicles, including all the equipment needed to set up <a href="/wiki/Patriot_missile" class="mw-redirect" title="Patriot missile">Patriot missile</a> sites.</li> <li>Hosted the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Air_Defense_Artillery_School" title="United States Army Air Defense Artillery School">USAADCEN</a> Air Defense Artillery Center from 1942 to 2010. USAADCEN has completed its transfer to <a href="/wiki/Fort_Sill" title="Fort Sill">Fort Sill</a>. Concomitantly, the German Air Force Air Defense school is going to move to new training facilities in Germany and <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2013, the German Air Force deactivated its presence at Fort Bliss, while retaining a presence at Holloman Air Force Base; over the previous 47 years, over 50,000 German Airmen received training at this command.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2015, due to funding constraints on the planned new facilities in Europe, the German Air Force Air Defense school will stay open at Fort Bliss until 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Monitor missile launches conducted by <a href="/wiki/White_Sands_Missile_Range" title="White Sands Missile Range">White Sands Missile Range</a>, located 70 miles (110 km) to the north, in <a href="/wiki/New_Mexico" title="New Mexico">New Mexico</a>.</li> <li>Host the <a href="/wiki/402nd_Field_Artillery_Brigade_(United_States)" title="402nd Field Artillery Brigade (United States)">CONUS Replacement Center</a> (CRC), the unit-level training site for Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen who are deploying or re-deploying on an individual basis. This CRC consolidates several other centers and now serves the entire Continental United States (CONUS).<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>A secured drone airfield, with a separate 5000 foot runway and dedicated hangar, 20–25 miles north of the main post is under construction, with completion expected by 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It will host a company of 9 <a href="/wiki/MQ-1C" class="mw-redirect" title="MQ-1C">MQ-1C</a> Gray Eagles for First Armored Division.</li></ul> <p>Training missions are supported by the McGregor Range Complex, located some 25 miles (40 km) to the northeast of the main post, in New Mexico. Most of Fort Bliss lies in the state of <a href="/wiki/New_Mexico" title="New Mexico">New Mexico</a>, stretching northeastward along <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_54" title="U.S. Route 54">U.S. Route 54</a> from <a href="/wiki/El_Paso_County,_Texas" title="El Paso County, Texas">El Paso County, Texas</a> to the southern boundary of the <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_National_Forest" title="Lincoln National Forest">Lincoln National Forest</a> in <a href="/wiki/Otero_County,_New_Mexico" title="Otero County, New Mexico">Otero County, New Mexico</a>; in addition, much of the northwestward side of Highway 54 is part of the Fort Bliss Military Reservation, ranging from the northern side of <a href="/wiki/Chaparral,_New_Mexico" title="Chaparral, New Mexico">Chaparral, New Mexico</a> to the southern boundary of <a href="/wiki/White_Sands_Missile_Range" title="White Sands Missile Range">White Sands Missile Range</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the main facilities are within the city limits of <a href="/wiki/El_Paso,_Texas" title="El Paso, Texas">El Paso, Texas</a>. According to the city zoning map, the post officially resides in <a href="/wiki/Central_El_Paso" title="Central El Paso">Central El Paso</a>. </p> <div class="infobox" style="width:20em;"> <p><b>Fort Bliss K–12 Schools</b> <br /><a href="/wiki/El_Paso_Independent_School_District#Elementary_schools" title="El Paso Independent School District">Bliss Elementary</a> <br /><a href="/wiki/El_Paso_Independent_School_District#Elementary_schools" title="El Paso Independent School District">Logan Elementary</a> <br /><a href="/wiki/El_Paso_Independent_School_District#Elementary_schools" title="El Paso Independent School District">Milam Elementary</a> <br /><a href="/wiki/El_Paso_Independent_School_District#Elementary_schools" title="El Paso Independent School District">Colin Powell Elementary</a> <br /><a href="/wiki/Captain_John_L._Chapin_High_School" title="Captain John L. Chapin High School">Chapin High</a><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </div> <p>Separate from the main post are the <a href="/wiki/William_Beaumont_Army_Medical_Center" title="William Beaumont Army Medical Center">William Beaumont Army Medical Center</a> (which also serves the <a href="/wiki/Army_Wounded_Warrior_Program" title="Army Wounded Warrior Program">warrior transition battalion</a> for the post's <a href="/wiki/Wounded_warrior" class="mw-redirect" title="Wounded warrior">wounded warriors</a>) and a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Veterans_Affairs" title="United States Department of Veterans Affairs">Department of Veterans Affairs</a> center at the eastern base of the <a href="/wiki/Franklin_Mountains_(Texas)" title="Franklin Mountains (Texas)">Franklin Mountains</a>. All of these supporting missions serve the military and retired-military population here, including having served <a href="/wiki/General_of_the_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="General of the Army">General of the Army</a> <a href="/wiki/Omar_N._Bradley" class="mw-redirect" title="Omar N. Bradley">Omar N. Bradley</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-WBAMC_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WBAMC-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The installation is also close to the El Paso Airport (with easy access from the post via Buffalo Soldier Road),<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Highway 54, and Interstate 10. There is a replica of the Magoffinsville site for Fort Bliss on post, simulating the adobe style of construction.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other items of interest include the <a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Soldier" title="Buffalo Soldier">Buffalo Soldier</a> memorial statue at the Buffalo Soldier Gate of entry to the post, and a missile museum on Pleasanton Road. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:FtBliss,today.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/01/FtBliss%2Ctoday.JPG/220px-FtBliss%2Ctoday.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/01/FtBliss%2Ctoday.JPG/330px-FtBliss%2Ctoday.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/01/FtBliss%2Ctoday.JPG/440px-FtBliss%2Ctoday.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2816" data-file-height="1584" /></a><figcaption>Building 500 area<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of Fort Bliss, 2007</figcaption></figure> <p>The walls of the old Fort Bliss Officers Club contain adobe bricks that are more than a century old. The building houses a <a href="/wiki/Family_Readiness_Group" title="Family Readiness Group">Family Readiness Group</a>, where new personnel can learn about the post's activities and support groups. The Fort Bliss Welcome center, for new arrivals, is nearby, in the Building 500 area. </p><p>Fort Bliss has been designated a "No Drone Zone" by the FAA, out to 400 feet beyond the lateral edges of the military reservation. This is enforced by the Military Police.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Counter-UAS training is available on-post.<sup id="cite_ref-counterUas_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-counterUas-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Local_impact">Local impact</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Local impact"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:FtBlissSoldierOnDailyPTrunningInMcKelligonCanyon.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/01/FtBlissSoldierOnDailyPTrunningInMcKelligonCanyon.JPG/220px-FtBlissSoldierOnDailyPTrunningInMcKelligonCanyon.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/01/FtBlissSoldierOnDailyPTrunningInMcKelligonCanyon.JPG/330px-FtBlissSoldierOnDailyPTrunningInMcKelligonCanyon.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/01/FtBlissSoldierOnDailyPTrunningInMcKelligonCanyon.JPG/440px-FtBlissSoldierOnDailyPTrunningInMcKelligonCanyon.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="1704" /></a><figcaption>Fort Bliss Soldier running up <a href="/wiki/McKelligon_Canyon" title="McKelligon Canyon">McKelligon Canyon</a> for <a href="/wiki/Endurance_training" title="Endurance training">PT</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Fort Bliss is the single largest employer in the area supporting a total of 167,358 people with an estimated annual contribution of approximately 25.6 billion. </p><p>Fort Bliss is located among a population of more than 2.5M ("Three States, Two Nations"). </p><p>Fort Bliss has assisted El Paso during local <a href="/wiki/Disaster" title="Disaster">disasters</a>. In 1897, and again in 1925, the fort provided food and housing to those displaced by flood waters.<sup id="cite_ref-Metz_14-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Metz-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2006, Fort Bliss dispatched soldiers and helicopters to the flood-affected areas to help with rescue efforts there.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The flooding of El Paso in 2013 and 2014 were not met with this type of official response. </p><p>As of July 2010, electric power consumption at Fort Bliss had been reduced by three megawatts as the base continues to work towards becoming a "net zero" energy installation.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In April 2013, <a href="/wiki/Major_general_(United_States)" title="Major general (United States)">Major General</a> <a href="/wiki/Dana_J.H._Pittard" class="mw-redirect" title="Dana J.H. Pittard">Dana J.H. Pittard</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">USA</a>, announced a $120 million project to be completed by 2015, consisting of the largest solar farm within the U.S. military.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A joint study by Fort Bliss and El Paso-area city governments found that desalination was a viable method for increasing El Paso's water supply by 25%.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Kay_Bailey_Hutchison" title="Kay Bailey Hutchison">Kay Bailey Hutchison</a> Desalination Plant, on Montana Avenue, is located on Fort Bliss property, and desalinates the groundwater of the Hueco Bolson for use by El Paso and Fort Bliss. This reverse-osmosis plant protects the fresh groundwater supplies from invasion by more brackish water.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This plant is currently the largest non-seawater desalination plant in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2010, with the assumption of command by Major General <a href="/wiki/Dana_J.H._Pittard" class="mw-redirect" title="Dana J.H. Pittard">Dana J.H. Pittard</a>, a local that grew up in El Paso, Fort Bliss was made an "open post" which allowed anyone with a valid driver's license to enter the post.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of 2015 Fort Bliss is no longer an open post. In 2020, 1st Armored Division's Operations Research and Systems Analysis officer (ORSA) created a <a href="/wiki/COVID-19" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a> progression rate model for the division; this model was also used by the COVID-19 task force for the City of El Paso.<sup id="cite_ref-orsa_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-orsa-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Fort Bliss archaeologists manage 20,000 sites on the 1.12 million acre reservation, and serve as tribal liaison to seven federally-funded Indian tribes.<sup id="cite_ref-sites_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sites-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Hueco_Tanks" title="Hueco Tanks">Hueco Tanks</a> historic site in El Paso county is adjacent to the military reservation. Cultural liaison with the tribes at the sacred sites of the reservation is an annual event.<sup id="cite_ref-sites_67-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sites-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pershing_Dam_Armstrong_Field_El_Paso_aerial.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Pershing_Dam_Armstrong_Field_El_Paso_aerial.jpg/220px-Pershing_Dam_Armstrong_Field_El_Paso_aerial.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="204" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Pershing_Dam_Armstrong_Field_El_Paso_aerial.jpg/330px-Pershing_Dam_Armstrong_Field_El_Paso_aerial.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Pershing_Dam_Armstrong_Field_El_Paso_aerial.jpg/440px-Pershing_Dam_Armstrong_Field_El_Paso_aerial.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1512" data-file-height="1399" /></a><figcaption>Aerial view of El Paso with Fort Bliss's Armstrong Polo Field in the center. The Pershing Dam flood-control project floods the field when there is storm runoff.</figcaption></figure> <p>The Fort Bliss <a href="/wiki/Census-designated_place" title="Census-designated place">census-designated place</a> is located at <span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Fort_Bliss&params=31.801847_N_106.424608_W_type:city"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">31°48′07″N</span> <span class="longitude">106°25′29″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">31.801847°N 106.424608°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">31.801847; -106.424608</span></span></span></a></span></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-GR1_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR1-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Census_Bureau" title="United States Census Bureau">United States Census Bureau</a>, the census-designated place has a total area of 6.2 square miles (16.0 km<sup>2</sup>), all of it land. In terms of its <a href="/wiki/United_States_physiographic_region" class="mw-redirect" title="United States physiographic region">United States physiographic region</a>, it is a southern part of the <a href="/wiki/Basin_and_Range_Province" title="Basin and Range Province">Basin and Range Province</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bunker_11507">Bunker 11507</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Bunker 11507"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>An investigation into above-ground dirt-covered bunkers located on the military reservation was opened in June 2013. These former nuclear weapons bunkers were used by the Air Force during the Cold War, when Biggs Air Force Base was a SAC base. Low level radiation was detected in Bunker 11507. The bunker interiors were previously painted with epoxy paint to contain the radiation, and the paint has now chipped. The radiation contamination is confined to the area around the bunker. The area was closed on 11 July 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Census designated place in Texas, United States</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1043192559">.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement{width:23em;border-collapse:collapse;line-height:1.2em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement td,.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement 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.maptable{border:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-header,.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-below{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-above{font-size:125%;line-height:1.3em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-subheader{background-color:#cddeff;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-native{font-weight:normal;padding-top:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-other-name{font-size:78%}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-official{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-caption{padding:0.3em 0 0 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-caption-link{padding:0.2em 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-nickname{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-fn{font-weight:normal;display:inline}</style><table class="infobox ib-settlement vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above"><div class="fn org">Fort Bliss CDP</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div class="category"><a href="/wiki/Census_designated_place" class="mw-redirect" title="Census designated place">Census designated place</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:ElPaso_County_FortBliss.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Location of the census-designated place in El Paso County"><img alt="Location of the census-designated place in El Paso County" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/ElPaso_County_FortBliss.svg/250px-ElPaso_County_FortBliss.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/ElPaso_County_FortBliss.svg/375px-ElPaso_County_FortBliss.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/ElPaso_County_FortBliss.svg/500px-ElPaso_County_FortBliss.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="990" data-file-height="765" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">Location of the <a href="/wiki/Census-designated_place" title="Census-designated place">census-designated place</a> in El Paso County</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a class="mw-kartographer-map notheme mw-kartographer-container center" style="width: 250px; height: 200px;" data-mw-kartographer="mapframe" data-style="osm-intl" data-width="250" data-height="200" data-zoom="11" data-lat="31.83965" data-lon="-106.374712" data-overlays="["_3394c3e588bac6ecd6a8d4097d9733b10b8d9055"]" href="/wiki/Special:Map/11/31.83965/-106.374712/en"><img src="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,11,31.83965,-106.374712,250x200.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Fort_Bliss&groups=_3394c3e588bac6ecd6a8d4097d9733b10b8d9055" width="250" height="200" decoding="async" srcset="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,11,31.83965,-106.374712,250x200@2x.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Fort_Bliss&groups=_3394c3e588bac6ecd6a8d4097d9733b10b8d9055 2x" alt="Map" /></a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Coordinates: <span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Fort_Bliss&params=31.83965_N_106.374712_W_region:US_type:city(11260)"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">31°50′23″N</span> <span class="longitude">106°22′29″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">31.83965°N 106.374712°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">31.83965; -106.374712</span></span></span></a></span></span><sup id="cite_ref-CenPopGazetteer2020_70-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CenPopGazetteer2020-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">State</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Flag_of_Texas.svg/23px-Flag_of_Texas.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Flag_of_Texas.svg/35px-Flag_of_Texas.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Flag_of_Texas.svg/45px-Flag_of_Texas.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_California" title="List of counties in California">County</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_El_Paso_County,_Texas.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_El_Paso_County%2C_Texas.svg/25px-Flag_of_El_Paso_County%2C_Texas.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_El_Paso_County%2C_Texas.svg/38px-Flag_of_El_Paso_County%2C_Texas.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Flag_of_El_Paso_County%2C_Texas.svg/50px-Flag_of_El_Paso_County%2C_Texas.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1076" data-file-height="646" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/El_Paso_County,_Texas" title="El Paso County, Texas">El Paso</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-CenPopGazetteer2020_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CenPopGazetteer2020-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">46.4 km<sup>2</sup> (17.92 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Land</th><td class="infobox-data">46.4 km<sup>2</sup> (17.92 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Water</th><td class="infobox-data">0 km<sup>2</sup> (0 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Elevation<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><sup id="cite_ref-GNIS_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GNIS-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th><td class="infobox-data">1,199 m (3,934 ft)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(2020)</div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">11,260</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">240/km<sup>2</sup> (630/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC-6" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC-6">UTC-6</a> (<a href="/wiki/Central_Time_Zone" title="Central Time Zone">CDT</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC-5" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC-5">UTC-5</a> (CDT)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Geographic_Names_Information_System" title="Geographic Names Information System">GNIS</a> feature ID</th><td class="infobox-data">2408232<sup id="cite_ref-GNIS_71-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GNIS-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224496135">.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop{border-spacing:1px;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);padding:0.3em;font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop caption{background-color:lavender;color:black;padding-right:0.2em;padding-left:0.2em;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-bottom:none}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop th[scope=col]{border-bottom:1px solid black}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(2){text-align:right;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td.us-census-pop-estimate{padding-left:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(3){padding-left:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(4){padding-left:0.5em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-footnote{border-top:1px solid black;font-size:85%;text-align:center}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-right{float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 1em 1em}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-left{float:left;clear:left;margin:0 1em 1em 0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-center{float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-none{float:none;margin:0 1em 1em 0}}</style> <table class="us-census-pop us-census-pop-left"> <caption>Historical population</caption> <tbody><tr><th scope="col">Census</th><th scope="col"><abbr title="Population">Pop.</abbr></th><th scope="col"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1152813436">.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="sr-only">Note</span></th><th scope="col"><abbr title="Percent change">%±</abbr></th></tr> <tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1970_United_States_census" title="1970 United States census">1970</a></th><td>13,288</td><td></td><td>—</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1980_United_States_census" title="1980 United States census">1980</a></th><td>12,687</td><td></td><td>−4.5%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1990_United_States_census" title="1990 United States census">1990</a></th><td>13,915</td><td></td><td>9.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_census" title="2000 United States census">2000</a></th><td>8,264</td><td></td><td>−40.6%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_census" title="2010 United States census">2010</a></th><td>8,591</td><td></td><td>4.0%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census">2020</a></th><td>11,260</td><td></td><td>31.1%</td></tr><tr><td colspan="4" class="us-census-pop-footnote" style="text-align: center">U.S. Decennial Census<sup id="cite_ref-DecennialCensus_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DecennialCensus-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /> 1850–1900<sup id="cite_ref-1900CensusTX_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1900CensusTX-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1910<sup id="cite_ref-1910CensusTX_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1910CensusTX-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /> 1920<sup id="cite_ref-1920CensusTX_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1920CensusTX-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1930<sup id="cite_ref-1930CensusTX_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1930CensusTX-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1940<sup id="cite_ref-1940CensusTX_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1940CensusTX-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /> 1950<sup id="cite_ref-1950CensusTX_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1950CensusTX-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1960<sup id="cite_ref-1960CensusTX_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1960CensusTX-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1970<sup id="cite_ref-1970CensusTX_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1970CensusTX-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /> 1980<sup id="cite_ref-1980CensusTX_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1980CensusTX-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1990<sup id="cite_ref-1990CensusTX_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1990CensusTX-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 2000<sup id="cite_ref-2000CensusTX_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2000CensusTX-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /> 2010<sup id="cite_ref-2010CensusTX_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2010CensusTX-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>Fort Bliss first appeared as an <a href="/wiki/Unincorporated_community" class="mw-redirect" title="Unincorporated community">unincorporated community</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1970_U.S._Census" class="mw-redirect" title="1970 U.S. Census">1970 U.S. Census</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-1970CensusTX_80-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1970CensusTX-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and as a <a href="/wiki/Census_designated_place" class="mw-redirect" title="Census designated place">census designated place</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1980_U.S._Census" class="mw-redirect" title="1980 U.S. Census">1980 U.S. Census</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1980CensusTX_81-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1980CensusTX-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"> <caption><b>Fort Bliss CDP, Texas – Racial and ethnic composition</b><br /><small><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold"><i>Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.</i></span></small> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Race / Ethnicity <small>(<i>NH = Non-Hispanic</i>)</small> </th> <th>Pop 2000<sup id="cite_ref-2000CensusP004_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2000CensusP004-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>Pop 2010<sup id="cite_ref-2010CensusP2_86-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2010CensusP2-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th style="background:#FFB; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-partial">Pop 2020<sup id="cite_ref-2020CensusP2_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2020CensusP2-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th>% 2000 </th> <th>% 2010 </th> <th style="background:#FFB; color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-partial">% 2020 </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Non-Hispanic_or_Latino_whites" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-Hispanic or Latino whites">White</a> alone (NH) </td> <td>4,149 </td> <td>5,227 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">4,880 </td> <td>50.21% </td> <td>60.84% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">43.34% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Non-Hispanic_or_Latino_African_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-Hispanic or Latino African Americans">Black or African American</a> alone (NH) </td> <td>2,007 </td> <td>1,163 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">1,438 </td> <td>24.29% </td> <td>13.54% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">12.77% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native American</a> or <a href="/wiki/Alaska_Native" class="mw-redirect" title="Alaska Native">Alaska Native</a> alone (NH) </td> <td>79 </td> <td>115 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">169 </td> <td>0.96% </td> <td>1.34% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">1.50% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Asian_Americans" title="Asian Americans">Asian</a> alone (NH) </td> <td>185 </td> <td>197 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">777 </td> <td>2.24% </td> <td>2.29% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">6.90% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander_Americans" title="Pacific Islander Americans">Pacific Islander</a> alone (NH) </td> <td>54 </td> <td>27 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">181 </td> <td>0.65% </td> <td>0.31% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">1.61% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States_census" title="Race and ethnicity in the United States census">Other race</a> alone (NH) </td> <td>16 </td> <td>9 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">92 </td> <td>0.19% </td> <td>0.10% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">0.82% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Multiracial_Americans" title="Multiracial Americans">Mixed race or Multiracial</a> (NH) </td> <td>178 </td> <td>280 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">733 </td> <td>2.15% </td> <td>3.26% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">6.51% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" title="Hispanic and Latino Americans">Hispanic or Latino</a> (any race) </td> <td>1,596 </td> <td>1,573 </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">2,990 </td> <td>19.32% </td> <td>18.31% </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;">26.55% </td></tr> <tr> <td><b>Total</b> </td> <td><b>8,264</b> </td> <td><b>8,591</b> </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;"><b>11,260</b> </td> <td><b>100.00%</b> </td> <td><b>100.00%</b> </td> <td style="background: #ffffe6;"><b>100.00%</b> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>As of the census<sup id="cite_ref-GR2_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR2-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of 2020, there were 11,260 people and 2,282 households residing on the post. The population density was 628.3 inhabitants per square mile (242.6/km<sup>2</sup>). The racial makeup of the post was 58.2% <a href="/wiki/White_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="White (U.S. Census)">White</a>, 16.5% <a href="/wiki/African_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="African American (U.S. Census)">African American</a>, 2.4% <a href="/wiki/Asian_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Asian (U.S. Census)">Asian</a>, 1.4% <a href="/wiki/Native_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Native American (U.S. Census)">Native American</a>, 0.5% <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)">Pacific Islander</a>, and 15.9% from two or more races. <a href="/wiki/Hispanic_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hispanic (U.S. Census)">Hispanic</a> or <a href="/wiki/Latino_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Latino (U.S. Census)">Latino</a> of any race were 23.5% of the population. </p><p>Of the persons living there 12.4% were under the age of 5, 33.8% were under the age of 18 and 0.1% were over the age of 65. The precentage of woman lays at 38.2%. The average household size was 3.82. </p><p>The median income for a household on the post was $57,283. The per capita income for the post was $22,181. About 13.1% of the population were below the poverty line. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Expand_section plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="[icon]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/20px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/30px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/40px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="44" data-file-height="31" /></a></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs expansion</b>. You can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit&section=">adding to it</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">July 2021</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Fort Bliss is within the <a href="/wiki/El_Paso_Independent_School_District" title="El Paso Independent School District">El Paso Independent School District</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bliss Elementary School is inside Fort Bliss,<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> serving family housing areas on the main post.<sup id="cite_ref-Schoolzonemaps_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schoolzonemaps-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Milam Elementary School is in the Aero Vista development on Fort Bliss.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Residents zoned to Bliss Elementary are zoned to Navarrete Middle School and <a href="/wiki/Captain_John_L._Chapin_High_School" title="Captain John L. Chapin High School">Captain John L. Chapin High School</a>. Residents zoned to Milam are zoned to Hartley School and <a href="/wiki/Austin_High_School_(El_Paso,_Texas)" title="Austin High School (El Paso, Texas)">Austin High School</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Schoolzonemaps_91-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schoolzonemaps-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Bundeswehr" title="Bundeswehr">Bundeswehr</a> maintains a school for German national children at Fort Bliss.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The grade 1–12 school was established circa 1976, and as of 2016 had 55 students.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Museums_and_historic_preservation">Museums and historic preservation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fort_Bliss&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Museums and historic preservation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:CeremonialParadeGrounds,FortBliss.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/49/CeremonialParadeGrounds%2CFortBliss.JPG/220px-CeremonialParadeGrounds%2CFortBliss.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/49/CeremonialParadeGrounds%2CFortBliss.JPG/330px-CeremonialParadeGrounds%2CFortBliss.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/49/CeremonialParadeGrounds%2CFortBliss.JPG/440px-CeremonialParadeGrounds%2CFortBliss.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="1704" /></a><figcaption>Noel Parade Field,<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> West Fort Bliss. <a href="/wiki/Franklin_Mountains_(Texas)" title="Franklin Mountains (Texas)">Franklin Mountains</a> in the background.</figcaption></figure> <p>The Replica Museum is located next to the Noel Parade Field and depicts the Post at the Magoffinsville site. This five building museum was authentically constructed with <a href="/wiki/Adobe_brick" class="mw-redirect" title="Adobe brick">adobe bricks</a> and painted <a href="/wiki/Stucco" title="Stucco">stucco</a>, and includes a <a href="/wiki/Sutler" title="Sutler">sutler</a> store, bunkhouse, <a href="/wiki/Blacksmith_shop" class="mw-redirect" title="Blacksmith shop">blacksmith shop</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saddlery" class="mw-redirect" title="Saddlery">saddlery</a>, and a pottery kiln. The museum depicts the story of Fort Bliss and El Paso from 1848 to 1948 and was dedicated on the 100th anniversary. </p><p>The Fort Bliss and Ironsides Museums are located next to the Athletic Field and includes outdoor and indoor exhibits. These include important historical artifacts from the founding of Fort Bliss to the present day, such as General Pershing's Dodge Command Car and a <a href="/wiki/Patriot_Missile" class="mw-redirect" title="Patriot Missile">Patriot Missile</a>. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional center"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Texas_Historical_Marker_for_Fort_Bliss.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Buffalo Soldier Gate marker explaining the history of the Post opposite El Paso Del Norte from 1849 to the present"><img alt="Buffalo Soldier Gate marker explaining the history of the Post opposite El Paso Del Norte from 1849 to the present" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Texas_Historical_Marker_for_Fort_Bliss.jpg/67px-Texas_Historical_Marker_for_Fort_Bliss.jpg" decoding="async" width="67" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Texas_Historical_Marker_for_Fort_Bliss.jpg/101px-Texas_Historical_Marker_for_Fort_Bliss.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Texas_Historical_Marker_for_Fort_Bliss.jpg/135px-Texas_Historical_Marker_for_Fort_Bliss.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2988" data-file-height="5312" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Buffalo Soldier Gate marker explaining the history of the Post opposite El Paso Del Norte from 1849 to the present</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Fort_Bliss_second_location_at_Magoffinsville_replica.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Replica Museum of the Magoffinsville-era fort"><img alt="Replica Museum of the Magoffinsville-era fort" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Fort_Bliss_second_location_at_Magoffinsville_replica.jpg/120px-Fort_Bliss_second_location_at_Magoffinsville_replica.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="68" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Fort_Bliss_second_location_at_Magoffinsville_replica.jpg/180px-Fort_Bliss_second_location_at_Magoffinsville_replica.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Fort_Bliss_second_location_at_Magoffinsville_replica.jpg/240px-Fort_Bliss_second_location_at_Magoffinsville_replica.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5312" data-file-height="2988" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Replica Museum of the Magoffinsville-era fort</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Former_Fort_Bliss_buildings_at_Hart%27s_Mill.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Former Fort Bliss buildings at Hart's Mill location"><img alt="Former Fort Bliss buildings at Hart's Mill location" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Former_Fort_Bliss_buildings_at_Hart%27s_Mill.jpg/120px-Former_Fort_Bliss_buildings_at_Hart%27s_Mill.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="68" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Former_Fort_Bliss_buildings_at_Hart%27s_Mill.jpg/180px-Former_Fort_Bliss_buildings_at_Hart%27s_Mill.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Former_Fort_Bliss_buildings_at_Hart%27s_Mill.jpg/240px-Former_Fort_Bliss_buildings_at_Hart%27s_Mill.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5312" data-file-height="2988" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Former Fort Bliss buildings at Hart's Mill location</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Texas_Historical_Marker_for_Fort_Bliss_C.S.A.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Replica Museum marker explaining the fort's Civil War history"><img alt="Replica Museum marker explaining the fort's Civil War history" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Texas_Historical_Marker_for_Fort_Bliss_C.S.A.jpg/67px-Texas_Historical_Marker_for_Fort_Bliss_C.S.A.jpg" decoding="async" width="67" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Texas_Historical_Marker_for_Fort_Bliss_C.S.A.jpg/101px-Texas_Historical_Marker_for_Fort_Bliss_C.S.A.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Texas_Historical_Marker_for_Fort_Bliss_C.S.A.jpg/135px-Texas_Historical_Marker_for_Fort_Bliss_C.S.A.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2988" data-file-height="5312" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Replica Museum marker explaining the fort's Civil War history</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Fort_Bliss_Museum_-_2016.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The 2016 outdoor display still includes a V-2 rocket."><img alt="The 2016 outdoor display still includes a V-2 rocket." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Fort_Bliss_Museum_-_2016.jpg/120px-Fort_Bliss_Museum_-_2016.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="68" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Fort_Bliss_Museum_-_2016.jpg/180px-Fort_Bliss_Museum_-_2016.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Fort_Bliss_Museum_-_2016.jpg/240px-Fort_Bliss_Museum_-_2016.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5312" data-file-height="2988" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The 2016 outdoor display still includes a <a href="/wiki/V-2_rocket" title="V-2 rocket">V-2 rocket</a>.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Fort_Bliss_Museum_Gulf_War_T72.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Gulf War T-72"><img alt="Gulf War T-72" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Fort_Bliss_Museum_Gulf_War_T72.jpg/120px-Fort_Bliss_Museum_Gulf_War_T72.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="68" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Fort_Bliss_Museum_Gulf_War_T72.jpg/180px-Fort_Bliss_Museum_Gulf_War_T72.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Fort_Bliss_Museum_Gulf_War_T72.jpg/240px-Fort_Bliss_Museum_Gulf_War_T72.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5312" data-file-height="2988" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Gulf War <a href="/wiki/T-72" title="T-72">T-72</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Fort_Bliss_Museum_M742_armored_recovery_vehicle.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="M742 armored recovery vehicle"><img alt="M742 armored recovery vehicle" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Fort_Bliss_Museum_M742_armored_recovery_vehicle.jpg/120px-Fort_Bliss_Museum_M742_armored_recovery_vehicle.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="68" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Fort_Bliss_Museum_M742_armored_recovery_vehicle.jpg/180px-Fort_Bliss_Museum_M742_armored_recovery_vehicle.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Fort_Bliss_Museum_M742_armored_recovery_vehicle.jpg/240px-Fort_Bliss_Museum_M742_armored_recovery_vehicle.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5312" data-file-height="2988" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">M742 armored recovery vehicle</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span 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href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/fort-bliss.htm">"Fort Bliss"</a>. GlobalSecurity.org<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">24 September</span> 2006</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Fort+Bliss&rft.pub=GlobalSecurity.org&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.globalsecurity.org%2Fmilitary%2Ffacility%2Ffort-bliss.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A total of five areas have housed the military post from its original creation to the present; this time frame takes into account the construction for each.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fort Bliss was abandoned twice before it became a permanent facility; this time frame does not take into account the years when the post was not in service.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Luftwaffe-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Luftwaffe_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151222185729/http://fortblissbugle.com/german-air-force-train-at-fort-bliss/">German Air Force train at Fort Bliss</a><sup><a href="/wiki/Template:Usurped/doc" title="Template:Usurped/doc">[usurped]</a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-GAFADC-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-GAFADC_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181114092439/http://fortblissbugle.com/2018/11/08/german-air-defense-center-trains-at-fort-bliss/">David Burge (8 November 2018) German Air Defense Center trains at Fort Bliss</a><sup><a href="/wiki/Template:Usurped/doc" title="Template:Usurped/doc">[usurped]</a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.denix.osd.mil/sri/upload/SRR2012-AppendixCFigures.pdf">2012 Sustainable Ranges Report, Appendix C: Maps and Inventory of Ranges, Range Complexes, Military Training Routes, and Special Use Areas</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150824171052/http://www.denix.osd.mil/sri/upload/SRR2012-AppendixCFigures.pdf">Archived</a> 24 August 2015 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bliss.army.mil/Garrison/">Welcome to Fort Bliss</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180716170132/https://www.bliss.army.mil/Garrison/">Archived</a> 16 July 2018 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> access-date=2018-07-16</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-1stAD2011-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1stAD2011_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.army.mil/article/235464/1st_armored_division_marks_ninth_anniversary_at_fort_bliss">Jean Han (11 May 2020) 1st Armored Division Marks Ninth Anniversary at Fort Bliss</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-cgsc-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-cgsc_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cgsc_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cgsc_9-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190622091541/http://fortblissbugle.com/2019/06/19/higher-learning-usasma-now-a-staff-college-branch-first-students-to-receive-bas-to-graduate-friday/">Danielle O'Donnell (NCOL COE) Higher learning: USASMA now a staff college branch, first students to receive BAs to graduate Friday</a><sup><a href="/wiki/Template:Usurped/doc" title="Template:Usurped/doc">[usurped]</a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170731162613/http://fortblissbugle.com/monitor/2017/07july/072717/pdf/072717part1a.pdf">(14 July 2017) Fort Bliss opens new air traffic control tower</a><sup><a href="/wiki/Template:Usurped/doc" title="Template:Usurped/doc">[usurped]</a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110309063725/https://www.bliss.army.mil/biggs/index.htm">"Archived copy"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bliss.army.mil/biggs/index.htm">the original</a> on 9 March 2011<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">13 July</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Archived+copy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bliss.army.mil%2Fbiggs%2Findex.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_web" title="Template:Cite web">cite web</a>}}</code>: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (<a href="/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_archived_copy_as_title" title="Category:CS1 maint: archived copy as title">link</a>)</span> Biggs Army Airfield, Overview <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://fbmonitor.com/2012/06/13/thoughts-while-working-out-in-the-gym-26/">Fort Bliss is currently the largest mobilization/ demobilization center in the Army, according to the Fort Bliss commanding general</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20130123114541/http://fbmonitor.com/2012/06/13/thoughts-while-working-out-in-the-gym-26/">Archived</a> 23 January 2013 at <a href="/wiki/Archive.today" title="Archive.today">archive.today</a> Major General <a href="/wiki/Dana_J.H._Pittard" class="mw-redirect" title="Dana J.H. Pittard">Dana J.H. Pittard</a>'s weekly column, <i>Fort Bliss Monitor</i> 13 June 2012</li> <li>The Central Issue Facility, which is part of the Directorate of Mobilization and Deployment in Fort Bliss, serves to provision all servicemembers who process through this Joint Mobilization Site, whether they be <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://fbmonitor.com/2012/06/13/domad-supports-prime-beef/">Navy, Air Force, Army, Army Reserve, or National Guard. A unit passing through this joint mobilization site is further provisioned with equipment by the Rapid Fielding Initiative in the Directorate of Mobilization and Deployment, during their pre-mobilization; if the unit returns through this joint mobilization site after their deployment, the Directorate of Mobilization and Deployment re-acquires responsibility for the equipment for which the servicemembers have signed.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20130122231017/http://fbmonitor.com/2012/06/13/domad-supports-prime-beef/">Archived</a> 22 January 2013 at <a href="/wiki/Archive.today" title="Archive.today">archive.today</a> Ashley Alameda, "DoMaD supports 'Prime BEEF'" <i>Fort Bliss Monitor</i> 13 June 2012</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.dvidshub.net/news/294357/army-reserve-soldiers-civilian-contractors-combine-efforts-fort-bliss-srrc">Sgt. Christopher Hernandez, Mobilization and Deployment Brigade, Directorate of Planning, Training, Mobilization and Security (DPTMS) Fort Bliss (09.25.2018) Army Reserve Soldiers, civilian contractors combine efforts in Fort Bliss SRRC</a></li></ul> </span></li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Carter, R.G., On the Border with Mackenzie, 1935, Washington D.C.: Enyon Printing Co., p. 48</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Carter, R.G., On the Border with Mackenzie, 1935, Washington D.C.: Enyon Printing Co., p. 49</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Metz-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Metz_14-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Metz_14-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Metz_14-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Metz_14-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Metz_14-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Metz_14-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Metz_14-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Metz_14-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Metz_14-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Metz_14-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Metz_14-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Metz_14-11"><sup><i><b>l</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Metz_14-12"><sup><i><b>m</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Metz_14-13"><sup><i><b>n</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Metz_14-14"><sup><i><b>o</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Metz_14-15"><sup><i><b>p</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Metz_14-16"><sup><i><b>q</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Metz_14-17"><sup><i><b>r</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Metz_14-18"><sup><i><b>s</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Metz_14-19"><sup><i><b>t</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Metz_14-20"><sup><i><b>u</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Metz_14-21"><sup><i><b>v</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Metz_14-22"><sup><i><b>w</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Metz_14-23"><sup><i><b>x</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Metz_14-24"><sup><i><b>y</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMetzTom_LeaJose_Cisneros1988" class="citation book cs1">Metz, Leon Claire; Tom Lea; Jose Cisneros (1988). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ASfJAAAACAAJ&q=Desert+Army:+Fort+Bliss+on+the+Texas+Border"><i>Desert Army: Fort Bliss on the Texas Border</i></a> (1st paperback ed.). El Paso, Texas: Mangan Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-930208-36-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-930208-36-6"><bdi>0-930208-36-6</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">9 October</span> 2008</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Desert+Army%3A+Fort+Bliss+on+the+Texas+Border&rft.place=El+Paso%2C+Texas&rft.edition=1st+paperback&rft.pub=Mangan+Books&rft.date=1988&rft.isbn=0-930208-36-6&rft.aulast=Metz&rft.aufirst=Leon+Claire&rft.au=Tom+Lea&rft.au=Jose+Cisneros&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DASfJAAAACAAJ%26q%3DDesert%2BArmy%3A%2BFort%2BBliss%2Bon%2Bthe%2BTexas%2BBorder&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span> NOTE: At the time of its creation, the first post occupied territory that was considered to be part of <a href="/wiki/New_Mexico" title="New Mexico">New Mexico</a>, and the post remained the strongest military encampment in New Mexico until the <a href="/wiki/32nd_parallel_north" title="32nd parallel north">32nd parallel north</a> was designated the official boundary between New Mexico and Texas in 1850.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-LavenHistory-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-LavenHistory_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090505161100/http://www.lavenpublishing.com/history1.html">"History of Fort Bliss"</a>. <i>Post Guide and Telephone Directory</i>. Laven Publishing Group. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lavenpublishing.com/history1.html">the original</a> on 5 May 2009<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 December</span> 2008</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Post+Guide+and+Telephone+Directory&rft.atitle=History+of+Fort+Bliss&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lavenpublishing.com%2Fhistory1.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Frank Mangan (1971), in <i>El Paso in Pictures</i>, Texas A&M Press, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-87565-350-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-87565-350-1">978-0-87565-350-1</a> locates the Magoffinsville post at the intersection of Magoffin and Willow streets, based on photographic inspection of the contours of <a href="/wiki/Franklin_Mountains_(Texas)" title="Franklin Mountains (Texas)">Mount Franklin</a> in a photograph of Fort Bliss.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070714142816/https://www.bliss.army.mil/Museum/FortBlissTexas.htm">"Information taken from the Fort Bliss Museum website"</a>. United States Army. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bliss.army.mil/Museum/FortBlissTexas.htm">the original</a> on 14 July 2007<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">21 September</span> 2006</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Information+taken+from+the+Fort+Bliss+Museum+website&rft.pub=United+States+Army&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bliss.army.mil%2FMuseum%2FFortBlissTexas.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-wilson-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-wilson_18-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://history.army.mil/books/R&H/R&H-8IN.htm">Lt. Richard H Wilson, Adjutant, The Eighth Regiment of Infantry.</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060215163002/http://texashistory.unt.edu/permalink/meta-pth-6112"><i>Forty years at El Paso, 1858–1898; recollections of war, politics, adventure, events, narratives, sketches, etc.</i></a>, by W. W. Mills, hosted by the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://texashistory.unt.edu/">Portal to Texas History</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHarris" class="citation journal cs1">Harris, Major Kevin L. "Guardian of the Pass: the story of the U.S. Army in El Paso".</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Guardian+of+the+Pass%3A+the+story+of+the+U.S.+Army+in+El+Paso&rft.aulast=Harris&rft.aufirst=Major+Kevin+L.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span> <span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_journal" title="Template:Cite journal">cite journal</a>}}</code>: </span><span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment">Cite journal requires <code class="cs1-code">|journal=</code> (<a href="/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#missing_periodical" title="Help:CS1 errors">help</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFResa2007" class="citation news cs1">Resa, Virginia (1 March 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110710230851/http://www.fbmonitor.com/monitor/2007/03%20March/030107/PDF/22.pdf">"Marker denotes Fort Bliss' rich history"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>The Monitor</i>. Fort Bliss. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fbmonitor.com/monitor/2007/03%20March/030107/PDF/22.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on 10 July 2011.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Monitor&rft.atitle=Marker+denotes+Fort+Bliss%27+rich+history&rft.date=2007-03-01&rft.aulast=Resa&rft.aufirst=Virginia&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fbmonitor.com%2Fmonitor%2F2007%2F03%2520March%2F030107%2FPDF%2F22.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The <a href="/wiki/Arroyo_(watercourse)" title="Arroyo (watercourse)">arroyo</a> below La Noria <a href="/wiki/Mesa" title="Mesa">mesa</a>, now occupied by the Patriot Freeway, was once the site of a large military display, 2 February 1920, which was held in honor of General John J. Pershing. The parade was witnessed by El Pasoans seated on the slopes of the mesa. All elements of Fort Bliss took part, including a parade of all 4500 troopers of the Eighth Cavalry, mounted 48 horses abreast.—Trish Long (Dec 2014), "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://blogs.elpasotimes.com/morgue/2014/12/">1920: No Better Military Show Ever Staged Than That At Fort Bliss, Asserts Officer With Pershing Party</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20150119173135/http://blogs.elpasotimes.com/morgue/2014/12/">Archived</a> 19 January 2015 at <a href="/wiki/Archive.today" title="Archive.today">archive.today</a>" <i>El Paso Times</i> morgue. accessdate=2015-01-19</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Additional information about the construction of Fort Bliss, 1890–1940 (with appendix detailing more information up to 1960) can be found in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA277986.pdf">Perry Jamieson (1993), <i>A Survey History of Fort Bliss</i>, Historic and Natural Resources Report No. 5, Cultural Resources Management Program, Directorate of Environment, United States Army Air Defense Artillery Center, Fort Bliss</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">NOTE: After a year at Fort Bliss, Pershing decided to arrange for his family to join him. The arrangements were almost complete when, on the morning of 27 August 1915, he received a telegram telling him of a fire in the <a href="/wiki/Presidio_of_San_Francisco" title="Presidio of San Francisco">Presidio of San Francisco</a>. His wife and three young daughters had been burned to death; only his six-year-old son Warren had been saved. Many who knew Pershing said that he never recovered from the deaths of his wife and daughters. After the funerals at Lakeview Cemetery in <a href="/wiki/Cheyenne,_Wyoming" title="Cheyenne, Wyoming">Cheyenne, Wyoming</a>, Pershing returned to Fort Bliss with his son, Warren, and his sister Mae, and resumed his duties as commanding officer.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">NOTE: During the <a href="/wiki/Pancho_Villa_Expedition#Campaign" title="Pancho Villa Expedition">Pancho Villa Expedition</a>, General Pershing was assigned a 1915 <a href="/wiki/Dodge_Brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="Dodge Brothers">Dodge Brothers</a> <a href="/wiki/Touring_car" title="Touring car">touring car</a>, serial number 3066, and <a href="/wiki/George_S._Patton" title="George S. Patton">George S. Patton</a> served as one of Pershing's aides. [This footnote should be moved to the <a href="/wiki/Pancho_Villa_Expedition#Campaign" title="Pancho Villa Expedition">Pancho Villa Expedition</a> wikipage.]</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160319032651/http://fortblissbugle.com/remembering-the-fallen-100-years-later-2-13-cav-regt-revisits-columbus-n-m/">"Remembering the fallen 100 years later, 2-13 Cav Regt. revisits Columbus, N.M." <i>Fort Bliss Bugle</i></a><sup><a href="/wiki/Template:Usurped/doc" title="Template:Usurped/doc">[usurped]</a></sup> accessdate=2016-03-17</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Krammer-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Krammer_27-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKrammer1979" class="citation book cs1">Krammer, Arnold (1979). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/naziprisonersofw00kram/page/27"><i>Nazi Prisoners of War in America</i></a></span>. New York: Stein and Day. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/naziprisonersofw00kram/page/27">27</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8128-2571-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-8128-2571-3"><bdi>0-8128-2571-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Nazi+Prisoners+of+War+in+America&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=27&rft.pub=Stein+and+Day&rft.date=1979&rft.isbn=0-8128-2571-3&rft.aulast=Krammer&rft.aufirst=Arnold&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fnaziprisonersofw00kram%2Fpage%2F27&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://encyclopedia.densho.org/Fort%20Bliss%20%28detention%20facility%29/">"Fort Bliss"</a> <i>Densho Encyclopedia</i> (accessed 12 June 2014)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-McCleskey-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-McCleskey_29-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcCleskeyD._Christensen" class="citation web cs1">McCleskey, C.; D. Christensen. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080917103545/http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/history/docs/pdf/debus.pdf">"Dr. Kurt H. Debus: Launching a Vision"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. p. 35. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/history/docs/pdf/debus.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on 17 September 2008<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 October</span> 2008</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Dr.+Kurt+H.+Debus%3A+Launching+a+Vision&rft.pages=35&rft.aulast=McCleskey&rft.aufirst=C.&rft.au=D.+Christensen&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww-pao.ksc.nasa.gov%2Fhistory%2Fdocs%2Fpdf%2Fdebus.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-McGovern-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-McGovern_30-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-McGovern_30-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-McGovern_30-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-McGovern_30-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcGovern1964" class="citation book cs1">McGovern, J (1964). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/crossbowovercast00mcgo"><i>Crossbow and Overcast</i></a></span>. New York: W. Morrow. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/crossbowovercast00mcgo/page/209">209</a>–210, 233, 246.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Crossbow+and+Overcast&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=209-210%2C+233%2C+246&rft.pub=W.+Morrow&rft.date=1964&rft.aulast=McGovern&rft.aufirst=J&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fcrossbowovercast00mcgo&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Huzel-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Huzel_31-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHuzel1962" class="citation book cs1">Huzel, Dieter K (1962). <i>Peenemünde to Canaveral</i>. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall. pp. 210, 214. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-313-22928-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-313-22928-7"><bdi>0-313-22928-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Peenem%C3%BCnde+to+Canaveral&rft.place=Englewood+Cliffs%2C+New+Jersey&rft.pages=210%2C+214&rft.pub=Prentice+Hall&rft.date=1962&rft.isbn=0-313-22928-7&rft.aulast=Huzel&rft.aufirst=Dieter+K&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Ley-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Ley_32-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLey1958" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Willy_Ley" title="Willy Ley">Ley, Willy</a> (1958) [1944]. <i>Rockets, Missiles and Space Travel</i> (revised ed.). New York: The Viking Press. p. 246.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Rockets%2C+Missiles+and+Space+Travel&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=246&rft.edition=revised&rft.pub=The+Viking+Press&rft.date=1958&rft.aulast=Ley&rft.aufirst=Willy&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span> NOTE: In 1948, the United States honored the 100th year of Fort Bliss with a <a href="/wiki/Commemorative_stamp" title="Commemorative stamp">commemorative stamp</a> depicting a rocket launch, the first stamp ever issued by the US related to space efforts or to depict a rocket.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Ordway-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Ordway_33-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFOrdwaySharpe,_Mitchell_R1979" class="citation book cs1">Ordway, Frederick I III; Sharpe, Mitchell R (1979). <i>The Rocket Team</i>. Apogee Books Space Series 36. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. pp. 395, 423. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-434-55300-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-434-55300-X"><bdi>0-434-55300-X</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Rocket+Team&rft.place=New+York&rft.series=Apogee+Books+Space+Series+36&rft.pages=395%2C+423&rft.pub=Thomas+Y.+Crowell&rft.date=1979&rft.isbn=0-434-55300-X&rft.aulast=Ordway&rft.aufirst=Frederick+I+III&rft.au=Sharpe%2C+Mitchell+R&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span> NOTE: On 3 September 1948, FBI informant PT-1 reported a Fort Bliss barber had been recruited to send missile photographs and information to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City.<sup>p406</sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Corporal-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Corporal_34-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Corporal_34-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051113142226/http://www.redstone.army.mil/history/pdf/corporal/corp2.pdf">"Corporal history"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. p. 249,263. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.redstone.army.mil/history/pdf/corporal/corp2.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on 13 November 2005. <q>In 1960, organizational control of the <a href="/wiki/MGM-5_Corporal" title="MGM-5 Corporal">MGM-5 Corporal</a> transferred from the ARGMA to the ABMA.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Corporal+history&rft.pages=249%2C263&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.redstone.army.mil%2Fhistory%2Fpdf%2Fcorporal%2Fcorp2.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">During this time the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment was also assigned to Fort Bliss, and later relocated to Fort Carson, Colorado. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFUnited_States_Army" class="citation web cs1">United States Army. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060217034156/http://goerigk-jever.de/history_fb.htm">"HISTORY OF FORT BLISS"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.goerigk-jever.de/history_fb.htm">the original</a> on 17 February 2006<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 September</span> 2006</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=HISTORY+OF+FORT+BLISS&rft.au=United+States+Army&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.goerigk-jever.de%2Fhistory_fb.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/army/adas.htm">"Air Defense Artillery School"</a>. GlobalSecurity.org<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">9 October</span> 2008</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Air+Defense+Artillery+School&rft.pub=GlobalSecurity.org&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.globalsecurity.org%2Fmilitary%2Fagency%2Farmy%2Fadas.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">NOTE: Two other surface-to-surface missile systems—LaCrosse and <a href="/wiki/MGR-1_Honest_John" title="MGR-1 Honest John">Honest John</a>— were based at <a href="/wiki/Fort_Sill" title="Fort Sill">Fort Sill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a>, but would frequently come to Fort Bliss for the purpose of conducting <a href="/wiki/Live_fire_exercise" title="Live fire exercise">live fire exercises</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-fiesta_time-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-fiesta_time_38-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-fiesta_time_38-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMertiz" class="citation news cs1">Mertiz, Darren. "It's Fiesta time!". <i>El Paso Times</i>. pp. 1A.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=El+Paso+Times&rft.atitle=It%27s+Fiesta+time%21&rft.pages=1A&rft.aulast=Mertiz&rft.aufirst=Darren&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-archive.elpasotimes.com-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-archive.elpasotimes.com_39-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://archive.elpasotimes.com/opinion/ci_28470604/editorial-fort-bliss-sees-modest-cuts-army-shrinks/">http://archive.elpasotimes.com/opinion/ci_28470604/editorial-fort-bliss-sees-modest-cuts-army-shrinks/</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged October 2017">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-bliss_wins_big-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-bliss_wins_big_40-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bliss_wins_big_40-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRoberts" class="citation news cs1">Roberts, Chris. "BLISS WINS BIG". <i>El Paso Times</i>. pp. 1A.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=El+Paso+Times&rft.atitle=BLISS+WINS+BIG&rft.pages=1A&rft.aulast=Roberts&rft.aufirst=Chris&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-jobs-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-jobs_41-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGillot" class="citation news cs1">Gillot, Louise. "20,196 jobs likely". <i>El Paso Times</i>. pp. 12A.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=El+Paso+Times&rft.atitle=20%2C196+jobs+likely&rft.pages=12A&rft.aulast=Gillot&rft.aufirst=Louise&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> The cost savings for not moving the ADA school were found to be smaller than the effect of consolidating 8 smaller locations into 4 Joint Pre-Deployment/Mobilization Platforms, of which <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hqda.army.mil/acsim/brac/StateInstallationBreakdown/TXFortBliss.pdf">Fort Bliss/Holloman</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110723223723/http://www.hqda.army.mil/acsim/brac/StateInstallationBreakdown/TXFortBliss.pdf">Archived</a> 23 July 2011 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> is one. accessdate=3 August 2009</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSpc._Jonathan_W._Thomas" class="citation web cs1">Spc. Jonathan W. Thomas. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.army.mil/-news/2009/06/26/23560-fort-bliss-switches-from-tradoc-to-forscom/">"Fort Bliss switches from TRADOC to FORSCOM"</a>. United States Army. p. 1<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 July</span> 2009</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Fort+Bliss+switches+from+TRADOC+to+FORSCOM&rft.pages=1&rft.pub=United+States+Army&rft.au=Spc.+Jonathan+W.+Thomas&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.army.mil%2F-news%2F2009%2F06%2F26%2F23560-fort-bliss-switches-from-tradoc-to-forscom%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">For example, <ul><li>Japan's Air Self-Defense Force held its 50th annual training exercise at Fort Bliss, with <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141129055635/http://fortblissbugle.com/japanese-air-defenders-conduct-50th-annual-ada-training/">live-fire from its inventory, which includes Patriot missiles, in Fall of 2014</a><sup><a href="/wiki/Template:Usurped/doc" title="Template:Usurped/doc">[usurped]</a></sup> accessdate=2014-11-19</li></ul> </span></li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/bundeswehr586.html">"Bundeswehr streicht Ausbildung in den USA"</a> (in German)<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">16 February</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Bundeswehr+streicht+Ausbildung+in+den+USA&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tagesschau.de%2Finland%2Fbundeswehr586.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sgt. Valerie Lopez, "German Air Force says farewell to Fort Bliss, training continues in Alamogordo" <i>Fort Bliss Bugle</i>, 3 October 2013</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_27326602/german-air-force-maintains-presence-at-bliss-air">"German air force maintains presence at Bliss; air defense school to stay open to 2020" <i>El Paso Times</i> (1/15/2015)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20150126022729/http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_27326602/german-air-force-maintains-presence-at-bliss-air">Archived</a> 26 January 2015 at <a href="/wiki/Archive.today" title="Archive.today">archive.today</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-48">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140625164058/http://fortblissbugle.com/402nd-fa-fine-tunes-crc-process-first-deployers-to-arrive-for-training-aug-9/">"CRC goes live August 9, 2013"</a>. Archived from the original on 25 June 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Population and Housing Unit Counts - Texas"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i><a href="/wiki/United_States_Census_Bureau" title="United States Census Bureau">United States Census Bureau</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=United+States+Census+Bureau&rft.atitle=2000+Census+of+Population+-+Population+and+Housing+Unit+Counts+-+Texas&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww2.census.gov%2Flibrary%2Fpublications%2F2003%2Fdec%2Fphc-3-45.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2010CensusTX-84"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2010CensusTX_84-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/2010/cph-2/cph-2-45.pdf">"2010 Census of Population - Population and Housing Unit Counts - Texas"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i><a href="/wiki/United_States_Census_Bureau" title="United States Census Bureau">United States Census Bureau</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=United+States+Census+Bureau&rft.atitle=2010+Census+of+Population+-+Population+and+Housing+Unit+Counts+-+Texas&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww2.census.gov%2Flibrary%2Fpublications%2Fdecennial%2F2010%2Fcph-2%2Fcph-2-45.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2000CensusP004-85"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2000CensusP004_85-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://data.census.gov/table?g=160XX00US4810876&tid=DECENNIALSF12000.P004">"P004: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2000: DEC Summary File 1 – Fort Bliss CDP, Texas"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/United_States_Census_Bureau" title="United States Census Bureau">United States Census Bureau</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=United+States+Census+Bureau&rft.atitle=P004%3A+Hispanic+or+Latino%2C+and+Not+Hispanic+or+Latino+by+Race+%E2%80%93+2000%3A+DEC+Summary+File+1+%E2%80%93+Fort+Bliss+CDP%2C+Texas&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdata.census.gov%2Ftable%3Fg%3D160XX00US4810876%26tid%3DDECENNIALSF12000.P004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2010CensusP2-86"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2010CensusP2_86-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US4810876&tid=DECENNIALPL2010.P2">"P2: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2010: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Fort Bliss CDP, Texas"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/United_States_Census_Bureau" title="United States Census Bureau">United States Census Bureau</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=United+States+Census+Bureau&rft.atitle=P2%3A+Hispanic+or+Latino%2C+and+Not+Hispanic+or+Latino+by+Race+%E2%80%93+2010%3A+DEC+Redistricting+Data+%28PL+94-171%29+%E2%80%93+Fort+Bliss+CDP%2C+Texas&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdata.census.gov%2Fcedsci%2Ftable%3Fq%3Dp2%26g%3D160XX00US4810876%26tid%3DDECENNIALPL2010.P2&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2020CensusP2-87"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2020CensusP2_87-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=p2&g=160XX00US4810876&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2">"P2: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – 2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) – Fort Bliss CDP, Texas"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/United_States_Census_Bureau" title="United States Census Bureau">United States Census Bureau</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=United+States+Census+Bureau&rft.atitle=P2%3A+Hispanic+or+Latino%2C+and+Not+Hispanic+or+Latino+by+Race+%E2%80%93+2020%3A+DEC+Redistricting+Data+%28PL+94-171%29+%E2%80%93+Fort+Bliss+CDP%2C+Texas&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdata.census.gov%2Fcedsci%2Ftable%3Fq%3Dp2%26g%3D160XX00US4810876%26tid%3DDECENNIALPL2020.P2&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-GR2-88"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-GR2_88-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/fortblisscdptexas/IPE120222#IPE120222">"U.S. Census website"</a>. <a href="/wiki/United_States_Census_Bureau" title="United States Census Bureau">United States Census Bureau</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">4 April</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=U.S.+Census+website&rft.pub=United+States+Census+Bureau&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.census.gov%2Fquickfacts%2Ffact%2Ftable%2Ffortblisscdptexas%2FIPE120222%23IPE120222&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-89"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-89">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st48_tx/schooldistrict_maps/c48141_el_paso/DC20SD_C48141.pdf">"2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: El Paso County, TX"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <a href="/wiki/U.S._Census_Bureau" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Census Bureau">U.S. Census Bureau</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">28 July</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=2020+CENSUS+-+SCHOOL+DISTRICT+REFERENCE+MAP%3A+El+Paso+County%2C+TX&rft.pub=U.S.+Census+Bureau&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww2.census.gov%2Fgeo%2Fmaps%2FDC2020%2FPL20%2Fst48_tx%2Fschooldistrict_maps%2Fc48141_el_paso%2FDC20SD_C48141.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st48_tx/place/p4826664_fort_bliss/DC20BLK_P4826664.pdf">See census block map</a> - Secondary source reporting: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCarreon2020" class="citation web cs1">Carreon, Cristina (23 December 2020). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/education/2020/12/23/el-paso-county-school-districts-honored-military-family-support/3992380001/">"TEA recognizes 50 El Paso County schools for supporting students from military families"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/El_Paso_Times" title="El Paso Times">El Paso Times</a></i>. <q>Schools located on the Fort Bliss installation or on federal property fall within the EPISD boundaries, according to the liaison office.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=El+Paso+Times&rft.atitle=TEA+recognizes+50+El+Paso+County+schools+for+supporting+students+from+military+families&rft.date=2020-12-23&rft.aulast=Carreon&rft.aufirst=Cristina&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.elpasotimes.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Feducation%2F2020%2F12%2F23%2Fel-paso-county-school-districts-honored-military-family-support%2F3992380001%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-90"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-90">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAnderson2016" class="citation web cs1">Anderson, Lindsey (25 October 2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/education/episd/2016/10/25/ex-episd-official-gina-oaxaca-denies-scam-role/92731612/">"Ex-EPISD official Gina Oaxaca denies scam role"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/El_Paso_Times" title="El Paso Times">El Paso Times</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">29 July</span> 2021</span>. <q>[...]Bliss Elementary School[...]which wouldn't be allowed onto Fort Bliss, where the school is located.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=El+Paso+Times&rft.atitle=Ex-EPISD+official+Gina+Oaxaca+denies+scam+role&rft.date=2016-10-25&rft.aulast=Anderson&rft.aufirst=Lindsey&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.elpasotimes.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Feducation%2Fepisd%2F2016%2F10%2F25%2Fex-episd-official-gina-oaxaca-denies-scam-role%2F92731612%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Schoolzonemaps-91"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Schoolzonemaps_91-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Schoolzonemaps_91-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.episd.org/cms/lib/TX02201707/Centricity/Domain/181//Maps/2019-20%20Feeder%20Pattern.pdf">"2019-20 Boundaries"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <a href="/wiki/El_Paso_Independent_School_District" title="El Paso Independent School District">El Paso Independent School District</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">29 July</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=2019-20+Boundaries&rft.pub=El+Paso+Independent+School+District&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.episd.org%2Fcms%2Flib%2FTX02201707%2FCentricity%2FDomain%2F181%2F%2FMaps%2F2019-20%2520Feeder%2520Pattern.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span> - Compare to the family housing locations seen here: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170201065814/http://legacy.elpasotexas.gov/muni_clerk/_documents/Comprehensive%20Plan%20Subcommittee%20Agendas/11-16-11_DRAFT_Fort%20Bliss_101311.pdf">"11: Fort Bliss"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Plan El Paso</i>. p. 11.4. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://legacy.elpasotexas.gov/muni_clerk/_documents/Comprehensive%20Plan%20Subcommittee%20Agendas/11-16-11_DRAFT_Fort%20Bliss_101311.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on 1 February 2017.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Plan+El+Paso&rft.atitle=11%3A+Fort+Bliss&rft.pages=11.4&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Flegacy.elpasotexas.gov%2Fmuni_clerk%2F_documents%2FComprehensive%2520Plan%2520Subcommittee%2520Agendas%2F11-16-11_DRAFT_Fort%2520Bliss_101311.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-92"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-92">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.episd.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=4&ModuleInstanceID=101&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=19287&PageID=1">"EPISD celebrates the sacrifice of all U.S. veterans"</a>. <a href="/wiki/El_Paso_Independent_School_District" title="El Paso Independent School District">El Paso Independent School District</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">29 July</span> 2021</span>. <q>Milam, located within the Aero Vista housing community on the Fort Bliss installation,[...]</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=EPISD+celebrates+the+sacrifice+of+all+U.S.+veterans&rft.pub=El+Paso+Independent+School+District&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.episd.org%2Fsite%2Fdefault.aspx%3FPageType%3D3%26DomainID%3D4%26ModuleInstanceID%3D101%26ViewID%3D6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108%26RenderLoc%3D0%26FlexDataID%3D19287%26PageID%3D1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFort+Bliss" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-93"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-93">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210729020914/https://www.bundeswehr.de/de/auslandsschulen-der-bundeswehr-amerika-83650">"Die Deutsche Schule El Paso in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika"</a> (in German). <a href="/wiki/Bundeswehr" title="Bundeswehr">Bundeswehr</a>. 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style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">Subordinate Commands</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Army_University" title="Army University">Army University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Army_Reserve_Officers%27_Training_Corps" title="Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps">Cadet Command</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/U.S._Army_Center_for_Army_Lessons_Learned" title="U.S. Army Center for Army Lessons Learned">Center for Army Lessons Learned</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Center_for_Initial_Military_Training" title="United States Army Center for Initial Military Training">Center for Initial Military Training</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Center_of_Military_History" title="United States Army Center of Military History">Center of Military History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Combined_Arms_Center" title="United States 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School">Airborne School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Armor_School" title="United States Army Armor School">Armor School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Army_Logistics_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Army Logistics University">Army Logistics University</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Army_Management_Staff_College&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Army Management Staff College (page does not exist)">Army Management Staff College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Aviation_Center_of_Excellence" title="United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence">Aviation School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Basic_Training" title="United States Army Basic Training">Basic Combat Training</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_CBRN_School" title="United States Army CBRN School">CBRN School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Sniper_School" title="United States Army Sniper School">Sniper School</a></li> <li><a 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Andress_High_School" title="Andress High School">Andress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austin_High_School_(El_Paso,_Texas)" title="Austin High School (El Paso, Texas)">Austin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bowie_High_School_(El_Paso,_Texas)" title="Bowie High School (El Paso, Texas)">Bowie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burges_High_School_(El_Paso,_Texas)" class="mw-redirect" title="Burges High School (El Paso, Texas)">Burges</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Captain_John_L._Chapin_High_School" title="Captain John L. Chapin High School">Chapin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coronado_High_School_(El_Paso,_Texas)" title="Coronado High School (El Paso, Texas)">Coronado</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Paso_High_School" title="El Paso High School">El Paso High</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_High_School_(El_Paso,_Texas)" title="Franklin High School (El Paso, Texas)">Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irvin_High_School" title="Irvin High School">Irvin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jefferson_High_School_(El_Paso,_Texas)" title="Jefferson High School (El Paso, Texas)">Jefferson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maxine_L._Silva_Magnet_High_School_for_Health_Care_Professions" title="Maxine L. Silva Magnet High School for Health Care Professions">Silva Health Magnet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transmountain_Early_College_High_School" title="Transmountain Early College High School">Transmountain Early College</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Ysleta_Independent_School_District" title="Ysleta Independent School District">Ysleta ISD<br />high schools<br />and notable schools</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bel_Air_High_School_(El_Paso,_Texas)" title="Bel Air High School (El Paso, Texas)">Bel Air</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Del_Valle_High_School_(El_Paso,_Texas)" title="Del Valle High School (El Paso, Texas)">Del Valle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastwood_High_School_(El_Paso,_Texas)" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastwood High School (El Paso, Texas)">Eastwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._M._Hanks_High_School" title="J. M. Hanks High School">J. M. Hanks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parkland_High_School_(Texas)" title="Parkland High School (Texas)">Parkland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riverside_High_School_(El_Paso,_Texas)" title="Riverside High School (El Paso, Texas)">Riverside</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ysleta_High_School" title="Ysleta High School">Ysleta High</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valle_Verde_Early_College_High_School" title="Valle Verde Early College High School">Valle Verde Early College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alicia_R._Chac%C3%B3n_International_School" title="Alicia R. Chacón International School">Alicia R. Chacón International School</a> (K-8)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Socorro_Independent_School_District" title="Socorro Independent School District">Socorro ISD<br />high schools</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Americas_High_School" title="Americas High School">Americas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Dorado_High_School_(El_Paso,_Texas)" title="El Dorado High School (El Paso, Texas)">El Dorado</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montwood_High_School" title="Montwood High School">Montwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pebble_Hills_High_School" title="Pebble Hills High School">Pebble Hills</a></li> <li><i>Other high schools not in the city limits</i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other school districts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Canutillo_Independent_School_District" title="Canutillo Independent School District">Canutillo ISD</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Private schools</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cathedral_High_School_(Texas)" title="Cathedral High School (Texas)">Cathedral High School</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loretto_Academy_(El_Paso,_Texas)" title="Loretto Academy (El Paso, Texas)">Loretto Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Father_Yermo_Schools" title="Father Yermo Schools">Father Yermo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lydia_Patterson_Institute" title="Lydia Patterson Institute">Lydia Patterson Institute</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Radford_School&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Radford School (page does not exist)">Radford School</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=C%C3%A9sar_Ch%C3%A1vez_Academy_(Texas)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="César Chávez Academy (Texas) (page does not exist)">César Chávez Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=El_Paso_Academy_East&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="El Paso Academy East (page does not exist)">El Paso Academy East</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=El_Paso_Country_Day_School&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="El Paso Country Day School (page does not exist)">El Paso Country Day School</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Journey_Academy_(El_Paso,_Texas)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Journey Academy (El Paso, Texas) (page does not exist)">Journey Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Keys_Academy_(El_Paso,_Texas)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Keys Academy (El Paso, Texas) (page does not exist)">Keys Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paso_Del_Norte_Academy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paso Del Norte Academy (page does not exist)">Paso Del Norte Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Plato_Academy_(El_Paso,_Texas)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Plato Academy (El Paso, Texas) (page does not exist)">Plato Academy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Special campuses</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=College_Career_and_Technology_Academy_(El_Paso,_Texas)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="College Career and Technology Academy (El Paso, Texas) (page does not exist)">College Career and Technology Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Delta_Academy_(El_Paso,_Texas)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Delta Academy (El Paso, Texas) (page does not exist)">Delta Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Occupational_Center_(El_Paso,_Texas)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Occupational Center (El Paso, Texas) (page does not exist)">Occupational Center</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Regional_Day_School_For_The_Deaf_(El_Paso,_Texas)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Regional Day School For The Deaf (El Paso, Texas) (page does not exist)">Regional Day School For The Deaf</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=San_Jacinto_Adult_Learning_Center&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="San Jacinto Adult Learning Center (page does not exist)">San Jacinto Adult Learning Center</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Telles_Academy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Telles Academy (page does not exist)">Telles Academy</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Young_Women%27s_STEAM_Research_%26_Preparatory_Academy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Young Women's STEAM Research & Preparatory Academy (page does not exist)">Young Women's STEAM Research & Preparatory Academy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="15" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Seal_ElPasoTX.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Seal of El Paso"><img alt="The Seal of El Paso" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Seal_ElPasoTX.jpg/80px-Seal_ElPasoTX.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="84" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Seal_ElPasoTX.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="90" data-file-height="94" /></a></span> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_El_Paso,_Texas.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Flag of El Paso"><img alt="The Flag of El Paso" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_El_Paso%2C_Texas.svg/80px-Flag_of_El_Paso%2C_Texas.svg.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="48" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_El_Paso%2C_Texas.svg/120px-Flag_of_El_Paso%2C_Texas.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_El_Paso%2C_Texas.svg/160px-Flag_of_El_Paso%2C_Texas.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Higher education</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_El_Paso" title="University of Texas at El Paso">University of Texas at El Paso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Paso_Community_College" title="El Paso Community College">El Paso Community College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Texas_Tech_University_Health_Sciences_Center_at_El_Paso" class="mw-redirect" title="Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at El Paso">Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at El Paso</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Library</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/El_Paso_Public_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="El Paso Public Library">El Paso Public Library</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Neighborhoods</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Angel%27s_Triangle,_El_Paso,_Texas" title="Angel's Triangle, El Paso, Texas">Angel's Triangle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chihuahuita,_Texas" title="Chihuahuita, Texas">Chihuahuita</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duranguito" title="Duranguito">Duranguito</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Segundo_Barrio" title="El Segundo Barrio">El Segundo Barrio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kern_Place" title="Kern Place">Kern Place</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mesquite_Hills,_El_Paso,_Texas" title="Mesquite Hills, El Paso, Texas">Mesquite Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mountain_View,_El_Paso,_Texas" title="Mountain View, El Paso, Texas">Mountain View</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Hills,_El_Paso,_Texas" title="North Hills, El Paso, Texas">North Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northeast_El_Paso" title="Northeast El Paso">Northeast El Paso</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Park_Foothills,_El_Paso,_Texas" title="Park Foothills, El Paso, Texas">Park Foothills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunset_Heights" title="Sunset Heights">Sunset Heights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tierra_Del_Este" class="mw-redirect" title="Tierra Del Este">Tierra Del Este</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vista_Del_Sol" class="mw-redirect" title="Vista Del Sol">Vista Del Sol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ysleta,_El_Paso,_Texas" title="Ysleta, El Paso, Texas">Ysleta</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Media</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Print media</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/El_Paso_Times" title="El Paso Times">El Paso Times</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/El_Diario_de_El_Paso" title="El Diario de El Paso">El Diario de El Paso</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Former print media</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/El_Paso_Herald-Post" title="El Paso Herald-Post">El Paso Herald-Post</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Radio stations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/KAMA_(AM)" title="KAMA (AM)">KAMA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KBNA-FM" title="KBNA-FM">KBNA-FM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KELP_(AM)" title="KELP (AM)">KELP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KHEY_(AM)" title="KHEY (AM)">KHEY</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KHEY-FM" title="KHEY-FM">KHEY-FM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KHRO" title="KHRO">KHRO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KINT-FM" title="KINT-FM">KINT-FM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KKLY" title="KKLY">KKLY</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KLAQ" title="KLAQ">KLAQ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KOFX" title="KOFX">KOFX</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KPAS" title="KPAS">KPAS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KPRR" title="KPRR">KPRR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KQBU_(AM)" title="KQBU (AM)">KQBU</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KROD" title="KROD">KROD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KSII" title="KSII">KSII</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KSVE_(AM)" title="KSVE (AM)">KSVE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KTEP" title="KTEP">KTEP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KTSM_(AM)" title="KTSM (AM)">KTSM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KTSM-FM" title="KTSM-FM">KTSM-FM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KVER_(FM)" title="KVER (FM)">KVER</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KVIV" title="KVIV">KVIV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KYSE" title="KYSE">KYSE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WNG652" class="mw-redirect" title="WNG652">WNG652</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WXK25" class="mw-redirect" title="WXK25">WXK25</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/XHTO-FM" title="XHTO-FM">XHTO-FM</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Television stations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/K22NM-D" class="mw-redirect" title="K22NM-D">K22NM-D</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K27OJ-D" title="K27OJ-D">K27OJ-D</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KCOS_(TV)" title="KCOS (TV)">KCOS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KDBC-TV" title="KDBC-TV">KDBC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KFOX-TV" title="KFOX-TV">KFOX</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KINT-TV" title="KINT-TV">KINT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KSCE" title="KSCE">KSCE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KTFN" title="KTFN">KTFN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KVIA-TV" title="KVIA-TV">KVIA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KTSM-TV" title="KTSM-TV">KTSM</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Hospitals</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Beaumont_Army_Medical_Center" title="William Beaumont Army Medical Center">William Beaumont Army Medical Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_Medical_Center_(El_Paso,_Texas)" class="mw-redirect" title="University Medical Center (El Paso, Texas)">University Medical Center</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sierra_Medical_Center&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sierra Medical Center (page does not exist)">Sierra Medical Center</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Las_Palmas_Medical_Center&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Las Palmas Medical Center (page does not exist)">Las Palmas Medical Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Del_Sol_Medical_Center" title="Del Sol Medical Center">Del Sol Medical Center</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sierra_Providence_East_Medical_Center&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sierra Providence East Medical Center (page does not exist)">Sierra Providence East Medical Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Paso_Children%27s_Hospital" title="El Paso Children's Hospital">El Paso Children's Hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Providence_Memorial_Hospital&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Providence Memorial Hospital (page does not exist)">Providence Memorial Hospital</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Military</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Biggs_Army_Airfield" title="Biggs Army Airfield">Biggs Army Airfield</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Fort Bliss</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Theaters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Chavez_Theatre" title="Abraham Chavez Theatre">Abraham Chavez Theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plaza_Theatre_(El_Paso)" title="Plaza Theatre (El Paso)">Plaza Theater</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Museums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Centennial_Museum_and_Chihuahuan_Desert_Gardens" title="Centennial Museum and Chihuahuan Desert Gardens">Centennial Museum and Chihuahuan Desert Gardens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chamizal_National_Memorial" title="Chamizal National Memorial">Chamizal National Memorial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Paso_Holocaust_Museum_and_Study_Center" title="El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center">El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Paso_Museum_of_Archaeology" title="El Paso Museum of Archaeology">El Paso Museum of Archaeology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Paso_Museum_of_Art" title="El Paso Museum of Art">El Paso Museum of Art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Paso_Museum_of_History" title="El Paso Museum of History">El Paso Museum of History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Nube" title="La Nube">La Nube</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magoffin_Homestead" title="Magoffin Homestead">Magoffin Home State Historic Site</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Border_Patrol_Museum" title="National Border Patrol Museum">National Border Patrol Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Railroad_and_Transportation_Museum_of_El_Paso" title="Railroad and Transportation Museum of El Paso">Railroad and Transportation Museum of El Paso</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Parks and gardens</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chamizal_National_Memorial" title="Chamizal National Memorial">Chamizal National Memorial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_Mountains_State_Park" title="Franklin Mountains State Park">Franklin Mountains State Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hueco_Tanks_State_Historic_Site" class="mw-redirect" title="Hueco Tanks State Historic Site">Hueco Tanks State Historic Site</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McKelligon_Canyon" title="McKelligon Canyon">McKelligon Canyon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Jacinto_Plaza" title="San Jacinto Plaza">San Jacinto Plaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wyler_Aerial_Tramway" title="Wyler Aerial Tramway">Wyler Aerial Tramway</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">International border crossings</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bridge_of_the_Americas_(El_Paso_%E2%80%93_Ciudad_Ju%C3%A1rez)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bridge of the Americas (El Paso – Ciudad Juárez)">Bridge of the Americas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Good_Neighbor_International_Bridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Good Neighbor International Bridge">Good Neighbor International Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paso_del_Norte_International_Bridge" title="Paso del Norte International Bridge">Paso del Norte International Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ysleta%E2%80%93Zaragoza_International_Bridge" title="Ysleta–Zaragoza International Bridge">Ysleta–Zaragoza International Bridge</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Transportation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/El_Paso_International_Airport" title="El Paso International Airport">El Paso International Airport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horizon_Airport_(El_Paso,_Texas)" title="Horizon Airport (El Paso, Texas)">Horizon Airport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_Depot_(El_Paso)" title="Union Depot (El Paso)">Union Depot</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Organizations based in El Paso</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/El_Paso_Intelligence_Center" title="El Paso Intelligence Center">El Paso Intelligence Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frontera_Women%27s_Foundation" title="Frontera Women's Foundation">Frontera Women's Foundation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ysleta_del_Sur_Pueblo" title="Ysleta del Sur Pueblo">Ysleta del Sur Pueblo</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Companies based in El Paso</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chico%27s_Tacos" title="Chico's Tacos">Chico's Tacos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cinco_Puntos_Press" title="Cinco Puntos Press">Cinco Puntos Press</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dos_Lunas_Tequila" title="Dos Lunas Tequila">Dos Lunas Tequila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Paso_Corp." title="El Paso Corp.">El Paso Corp.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Paso_Electric" title="El Paso Electric">El Paso Electric</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=El_Paso_Media_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="El Paso Media Group (page does not exist)">El Paso Media Group</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fred_Loya_Insurance" title="Fred Loya Insurance">Fred Loya Insurance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Government_Employees_Credit_Union_(El_Paso)" class="mw-redirect" title="Government Employees Credit Union (El Paso)">Government Employees Credit Union (El Paso)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_of_Troy_Limited" title="Helen of Troy Limited">Helen of Troy Limited</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lucchese_Boot_Company" title="Lucchese Boot Company">Lucchese Boot Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Popular_(department_store)" title="The Popular (department store)">The Popular (department store)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonic_Ranch" title="Sonic Ranch">Sonic Ranch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spira_Footwear_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Spira Footwear Inc.">Spira Footwear Inc.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Lama_Boots" title="Tony Lama Boots">Tony Lama Boots</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trost_%26_Trost" title="Trost & Trost">Trost & Trost</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Refining" title="Western Refining">Western Refining</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sports</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/El_Paso_Chihuahuas" title="El Paso Chihuahuas">El Paso Chihuahuas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Paso_Locomotive_FC" title="El Paso Locomotive FC">El Paso Locomotive FC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/El_Paso_Rhinos" title="El Paso Rhinos">El Paso Rhinos</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" 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Bliss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homestead_Meadows_North,_Texas" title="Homestead Meadows North, Texas">Homestead Meadows North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homestead_Meadows_South,_Texas" title="Homestead Meadows South, Texas">Homestead Meadows South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morning_Glory,_Texas" title="Morning Glory, Texas">Morning Glory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prado_Verde,_Texas" title="Prado Verde, Texas">Prado Verde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sparks,_Texas" title="Sparks, Texas">Sparks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tornillo,_Texas" title="Tornillo, Texas">Tornillo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Westway,_Texas" title="Westway, Texas">Westway</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Unincorporated_area#United_States" title="Unincorporated area">Other<br />communities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> 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title="Executive Order 9066">Executive Order 9066</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Executive_Order_9102" title="Executive Order 9102">Executive Order 9102</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Yasui_v._United_States" title="Yasui v. United States">Yasui</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hirabayashi_v._United_States" title="Hirabayashi v. United States">Hirabayashi</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Korematsu_v._United_States" title="Korematsu v. United States">Korematsu</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ex_parte_Endo" title="Ex parte Endo">Ex parte Endo</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lordsburg_killings" title="Lordsburg killings">Lordsburg killings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_Relocation_Authority" title="War Relocation Authority">War Relocation Authority</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Japanese_Americans" title="History of Japanese Americans">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese-American_life_before_World_War_II" title="Japanese-American life before World War II">Life before World War II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese-American_life_after_World_War_II" title="Japanese-American life after World War II">Life after World War II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Propaganda_for_Japanese-American_internment" title="Propaganda for Japanese-American internment">Propaganda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese-American_service_in_World_War_II" title="Japanese-American service in World War II">Military service in World War II</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/442nd_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States)" title="442nd Infantry Regiment (United States)">442nd Infantry Regiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/100th_Infantry_Battalion_(United_States)" title="100th Infantry Battalion (United States)">100th Infantry Battalion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Military_Intelligence_Service_(United_States)" title="Military Intelligence Service (United States)">Military Intelligence Service</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Concentration camps</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gila_River_War_Relocation_Center" title="Gila River War Relocation Center">Gila River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Granada_War_Relocation_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Granada War Relocation Center">Granada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heart_Mountain_Relocation_Center" title="Heart Mountain Relocation Center">Heart Mountain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerome_War_Relocation_Center" title="Jerome War Relocation Center">Jerome</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manzanar" title="Manzanar">Manzanar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minidoka_National_Historic_Site" title="Minidoka National Historic Site">Minidoka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Poston_War_Relocation_Center" title="Poston War Relocation Center">Poston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rohwer_War_Relocation_Center" title="Rohwer War Relocation Center">Rohwer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Topaz_War_Relocation_Center" title="Topaz War Relocation Center">Topaz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tule_Lake_War_Relocation_Center" title="Tule Lake War Relocation Center">Tule Lake</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Assembly centers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Arboga_Assembly_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Arboga Assembly Center">Arboga Assembly Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fresno_Assembly_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Fresno Assembly Center">Fresno Assembly Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mayer_Assembly_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Mayer Assembly Center">Mayer Assembly Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merced_Assembly_Center" title="Merced Assembly Center">Merced Assembly Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Owens_Valley_Reception_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Owens Valley Reception Center">Owens Valley Reception Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parker_Dam_Reception_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Parker Dam Reception Center">Parker Dam Reception Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pinedale_Assembly_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Pinedale Assembly Center">Pinedale Assembly Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pomona_Assembly_Center" title="Pomona Assembly Center">Pomona Assembly Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portland_Assembly_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Portland Assembly Center">Portland Assembly Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puyallup_Assembly_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Puyallup Assembly Center">Puyallup Assembly Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacramento_Assembly_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Sacramento Assembly Center">Sacramento Assembly Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salinas_Assembly_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Salinas Assembly Center">Salinas Assembly Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santa_Anita_Assembly_Center" title="Santa Anita Assembly Center">Santa Anita Assembly Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stockton_Assembly_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Stockton Assembly Center">Stockton Assembly Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tanforan_Assembly_Center" title="Tanforan Assembly Center">Tanforan Assembly Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tulare_Assembly_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Tulare Assembly Center">Tulare Assembly Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turlock_Assembly_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Turlock Assembly Center">Turlock Assembly Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woodland_Civil_Control_Station" class="mw-redirect" title="Woodland Civil Control Station">Woodland Civil Control Station</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Citizen Isolation centers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Leupp_Isolation_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Leupp Isolation Center">Leupp Isolation Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moab_Isolation_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Moab Isolation Center">Moab Isolation Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Raton_Ranch_Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Raton Ranch Camp">Old Raton Ranch Camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camp_Tulelake" title="Camp Tulelake">Camp Tulelake</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Detention facilities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Catalina_Federal_Honor_Camp" title="Catalina Federal Honor Camp">Catalina Federal Honor Camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crystal_City_Alien_Enemy_Detention_Facility" class="mw-redirect" title="Crystal City Alien Enemy Detention Facility">Crystal City Alien Enemy Detention Facility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Lincoln_Alien_Enemy_Detention_Facility" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Lincoln Alien Enemy Detention Facility">Fort Lincoln Alien Enemy Detention Facility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Missoula_Alien_Enemy_Detention_Facility" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Missoula Alien Enemy Detention Facility">Fort Missoula Alien Enemy Detention Facility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Stanton_Alien_Enemy_Detention_Facility" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Stanton Alien Enemy Detention Facility">Fort Stanton Alien Enemy Detention Facility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenedy_Alien_Enemy_Detention_Facility" class="mw-redirect" title="Kenedy Alien Enemy Detention Facility">Kenedy Alien Enemy Detention Facility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kooskia_Alien_Enemy_Detention_Facility" class="mw-redirect" title="Kooskia Alien Enemy Detention Facility">Kooskia Alien Enemy Detention Facility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santa_Fe_Alien_Enemy_Detention_Facility" class="mw-redirect" title="Santa Fe Alien Enemy Detention Facility">Santa Fe Alien Enemy Detention Facility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seagoville_Alien_Enemy_Detention_Facility" class="mw-redirect" title="Seagoville Alien Enemy Detention Facility">Seagoville Alien Enemy Detention Facility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharp_Park_Detention_Station" title="Sharp Park Detention Station">Sharp Park Detention Station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tuna_Canyon_Detention_Station" title="Tuna Canyon Detention Station">Tuna Canyon Detention Station</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Army facilities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Camp_Blanding" title="Camp Blanding">Camp Blanding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camp_Forrest" title="Camp Forrest">Camp Forrest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camp_Livingston" title="Camp Livingston">Camp Livingston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camp_McCoy" class="mw-redirect" title="Camp McCoy">Camp McCoy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camp_Florence" class="mw-redirect" title="Camp Florence">Camp Florence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Bliss_Internment_Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Bliss Internment Camp">Fort Bliss Internment Camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Howard_Internment_Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Howard Internment Camp">Fort Howard Internment Camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_McDowell_Internment_Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort McDowell Internment Camp">Fort McDowell Internment Camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Meade_Internment_Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Meade Internment Camp">Fort Meade Internment Camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Lewis_Internment_Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Lewis Internment Camp">Fort Lewis Internment Camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Richardson_Internment_Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Richardson Internment Camp">Fort Richardson Internment Camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Sam_Houston_Internment_Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Sam Houston Internment Camp">Fort Sam Houston Internment Camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Sill_Internment_Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Sill Internment Camp">Fort Sill Internment Camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Griffith_Park_Detention_Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Griffith Park Detention Camp">Griffith Park Detention Camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haiku_Internment_Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Haiku Internment Camp">Haiku Internment Camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Honouliuli_Internment_Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Honouliuli Internment Camp">Honouliuli Internment Camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kalaheo,_Hawaii" title="Kalaheo, Hawaii">Kalaheo Stockade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kilauea_Military_Camp" title="Kilauea Military Camp">Kilauea Military Camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lordsburg_Internment_Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Lordsburg Internment Camp">Lordsburg Internment Camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sand_Island_Internment_Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Sand Island Internment Camp">Sand Island Internment Camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stringtown_Internment_Camp" class="mw-redirect" title="Stringtown Internment Camp">Stringtown Internment Camp</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" 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