FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Fort Bliss, Texas ~ 17 JAN 2023

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Road Trip: Fort Bliss, Texas

Fort Bliss is a United States Army post in New Mexico and Texas, with its headquarters in El Paso, Texas. Named in honor of LTC William Bliss (1815–1853), a mathematics professor who was the son-in-law of President Zachary Taylor, Ft. Bliss has an area of about 1,700 square miles; it is the largest installation in FORSCOM (United States Army Forces Command) and second-largest in the Army overall.

The portion of the post located in El Paso County, Texas, is a census-designated place with a population of 8,591 as of the time of the 2010 census. Fort Bliss provides the largest contiguous tract (1,500 sq mi) of restricted airspace in the Continental United States, used for missile and artillery training and testing, and at 992,000 acres boasts the largest maneuver area. The garrison's land area is accounted at 1.12 million acres, ranging to the boundaries of the Lincoln National Forest and White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

Fort Bliss is home to the 1st Armored Division, which returned to US soil in 2011 after 40 years in Germany. The division is supported by the 1st Armored Division Sustainment Brigade. The installation is also home to Joint Task Force North (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 United States Northern Command (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 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command (AAMDC) is a theater level Army air and missile defense multi component organization with a worldwide, 72 hour deployment mission. It is the Army Forces Command and Joint Force Land Component Commanders' (ARFOR / JFLCC) organization that performs critical theater air and missile defense planning, integration, coordination, and execution functions.

The Joint Modernization Command (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.

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 is 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.

Learn More About Fort Bliss HERE!!

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[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

To all our military men and women, past and present,

[mountainlion]

I remember that place October 1966. I found a caterpillar in my spinach and showed It to the cook. He said what are you complaining for? I did my job and cooked it.

[lightman]

Howdy, everyone!

[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!

(((HUGS)))

[PROCON]

Thanks for tonight’s Road Trip, Lauren!

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy radu!

FIRST!!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening mountainlion!

SECOND!!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening lightman!

THIRD!!

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy left that other site!

*HUGS*

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening to you PROCON!

[Dutch Boy]

I served on the New Mexico part of Ft Bliss called Mcgregor Range. Very remote at the time. I liked it a lot.

[Conservative4Life]

I was stationed at Ft Bliss in the 80’s with the 3rd Armored Cavalry (Brave Rifles/ Last of the Mounted Cavalrymen). They had a museum there in front of my barracks. I was the LAST one to be licensed to drive the halftrack, it was used in a parade, retired and put on display. I spent many nights at White Sands Missile Range as well. Some fond memories as well as some horrific ones too.

[mountainlion]

My time at Ft. Bliss was not bliss but basic training.

[The Mayor]

Our Daily Bread

Tuesday,
January 17, 2023

Never Late

Read: John 11:17–27

Your brother will rise again. John 11:23

As a visitor to a small West African town, my American pastor made sure to arrive on time for a 10 a.m. Sunday service. Inside the humble sanctuary, however, he found the room empty. So he waited. One hour. Two hours. Finally, about 12:30 p.m., when the local pastor arrived after his long walk there—followed by some choir members and a gathering of friendly town people—the service began “in the fullness of time,” as my pastor later said. “The Spirit welcomed us, and God wasn’t late.” My pastor understood the culture was different here for its own good reasons.

Time seems relative, but God’s perfect, on-time nature is affirmed throughout the Scriptures. Thus, after Lazarus got sick and died, Jesus arrived four days later, with Lazarus’ sisters asking why. “Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died” (John 11:21). We may think the same, wondering why God doesn’t hurry to fix our problems. Better instead to wait by faith for His answers and power.

As theologian Howard Thurman wrote, “We wait, our Father, until at last something of thy strength becomes our strength, something of thy heart becomes our heart, something of thy forgiveness becomes our forgiveness. We wait, O God, we wait.” Then, as with Lazarus, when God responds, we’re miraculously blessed by what wasn’t, after all, a delay. — Patricia Raybon

What are you waiting for God to do or provide on your behalf? How can you wait by faith?

For You, Father, I wait. Grant me Your strength and faithful hope in my waiting.

Bible in a year: Genesis 41–42; Matthew 12:1–23

[radu]

Howdy, lauren! *Hugz*

How goes it your way? Not too bad over here for January.

[Kathy in Alaska]

~ Road Trip: Fort Bliss, Texas ~

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[where's_the_Outrage?]

I literally spent years at Ft Ignorance (as the saying goes ignorance is bliss). Entered Active duty there Sept 1977, last there 2011.

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

Not too bad a day up there today. Mostly cloudy, yes, but no snow. I read there are chances of it, though, the next few days.

And no fog banks that could be seen.

[SkyDancer]

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