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.

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[Mark]

I did my basic training there in 1966.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, radu...has the rain arrived? When it does, hope it’s only rain and no wind.

They are saying maybe some snow this evening here.

AND...the ducks came tonight, lots of them.

[Kathy in Alaska]

YIKES!! Good evening, mountainlion...a caterpillar??? YUCK!!

How’s your winter doing? Plenty of firewood?

[lewislynn]

I spent a week there one day in 1966.

[luvie]

Howdy, lauren and the NightOwls.
Wow! "Ft. Bliss has an area of about 1,700 square miles; it is the largest installation in FORSCOM (United States Army Forces Command)" Dat's huuuuge! Guess everything really IS bigger in Texas!

Thanks for a great thread tonight!

[radu]

Hey there, Kathy.

It rained all around us all around us this afternoon but it’s just now starting to rain here. It’ll rain a bit tonight, then we’ll have a break for a while tomorrow before the next round comes through. No rough weather expected this week, just rain showers and MAYBE a thunderstorm or two.

I’d say “they” are correct. There’s a large batch of snow moving towards you from the SE now. It looks like the bulk of it will pass south of town, at least.

YAY, the ducks came back!! I’ll bet they were hungry.

[radu]

Howdy, luvie.

It sure IS a huge installation!

How was your day, other than windy again?

[luvie]

Windy again. That’s the best I can say about it. Or the worst. This is only the beginning. There’s the whole spring thing to get through with it’s accompanying sandstorms. Bah!

Are you finally warming up? I was watching Mark Sudduth this morning, and it seems that later this week, you “could” have some strong storms. Hope the weather bureau is wrong.

[radu]

With all the systems rolling across the country, it’s probably going to be windy for a while. :-(

Yes, it warmed up today and the next three days will be nice, though soggy at times. We’re finally getting some rain now after it’s rained all around us most of the day.

No strong storms expected here. There could be a few on the west end of the state with the last system that comes through later this week but the chances are low at this point. We’ll see if the up the chances as time goes on.

[Allegra]

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.

😂😂🤣🤣

[Allegra]

Ah, Ft. Bliss. I went through CRC there in early spring 2006 before deploying as a civilian embed to FOB Shield “over there.” (Via Gander, Newfoundland, Ramstein in Germany and a couple of days in Kuwait.)

The cadre and the rest of the people running the CRC were hands-down the nicest group I ever dealt with during a CRC. I remember it was “wind season,” in El Paso and high winds were pretty constant.

[luvie]

Glad you’re at least getting some rain. Someone might as well get some. LOL!

I thought it was supposed to be cooler tomorrow, but I just looked and our high will be around 70. Phooey!

[luvie]

I didn’t realize you got some of your training there. Yep...w. Texas=wind. So flat there’s nothing to stop it. LOL!

[radu]

Aaaah, so Ft. Bliss is where you trained before going “over there”? 2006. Wow. In some ways, it seems like eons ago and in others, it doesn’t seem long at all.

[radu]

We’ll happily take the rain. It’s the soaking kind and that’s what we need to get the water table built up good.
The nice thing is most here will fall at night and leave it dry during the day. I have a meeting in the morning and a couple of errands to run afterwards and am glad the umbrella won’t be necessary.

We’ll be a little cooler than you but not by much. mid 60s through Thursday, then 50s through the weekend. Not too shabby for January.

[Allegra]

Did you train there too?

CRC only lasted a week and we had lovely things like 0415 muster a couple of days. The company I was working for got the three of us civilians in the group hotel rooms right down the street from the base and a rental car. This was during The Surge, so the base was in big preparation mode.

I remember the first evening during our welcome brief, (less than 10% of us were civilians in our group) the first thing they said was “Juarez is off-limits.” They said this at *every* muster/gathering/meeting after that all week long. LOL

[Allegra]

Yep...w. Texas=wind. So flat there’s nothing to stop it. LOL!

It just lasts and lasts, doesn’t it?

I got a mocha at the coffee shop by the PC one afternoon when I had some down time after the medical outprocessing. I took it and slipped outside. This was in my smoking days, so I set my mocha down on a little ledge and went through the struggle of lighting my ciggie in the wind. Just as I got it lit, the wind blew my mocha off the ledge and it splattered into the grass. I sighed, picked up the empty cup and threw it away and resumed my smoke. When I finished my cigarette, I went back inside to get another mocha and the lady had one all ready for me. She said she’d seen the whole thing and knew I’d come back. She refused to let me pay for it, so I left a big tip. Such nice people there.

[luvie]

Awww...what a nice thing for that woman to do. We learn never to put anything down that’s less than 5 pounds. That wind will take it. :)

Texans, for the most part, are great folks. Just don’t cross ‘em. LOL!

[luvie]

Sounds like y’all are up for a pretty perfect week. Soaking rain is the best time. Will it help your well water to increase?

[radu]

No, I didn't train there. I just remember when you were going through all of that back then.
I was busy back here in those days with care packages to be sent to deployed troops. That was 7 busy years but they were also fun years.

..... the first thing they said was "Juarez is off-limits." They said this at *every* muster/gathering/meeting after that all week long. LOL

Spoil sports!!! LOL