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	Fort Bliss, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To this day, the walls of the Fort Bliss Officers Club still contain adobe bricks from over a century ago, and the installation has survived, in contrast to, New Mexico (where Arthur MacArthur was posted, when Douglas MacArthur was a boy), 45 miles (72 km) to the northwest, which is crumbling back into desert.
		Fort Bliss is home to a large number of maintenance crews and supply units, and serves as one of the Army's premier bases for test driving tanks and other equipment.
		Fort Bliss is the home of the, and monitors missile launches conducted by White Sands Missile Range (which is located 70 miles (110 km) to the north, in New Mexico).
	www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Fort_Bliss (838 words)

	Fort Bliss, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fort is named for Lieutenant Colonel William Bliss, who was a son-in-law of President Zachary Taylor and who was re-interred at Fort Bliss National Cemetery on post.
		Fort Bliss is the home of the United States Army Air Defense Artillery Center (FBADACEN), and monitors missile launches conducted by White Sands Missile Range, located 70 miles (110 km) to the north, in New Mexico.
		On August 25 officials representing Fort Bliss pleaded their case for maintaning the ADA school and its accompaning equipment at Fort Bliss, citing among other thing the size of Fort Bliss and the history of the ADA school in the region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Bliss,_Texas (943 words)

	Fort Bliss, Texas -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fort Bliss is a (Click link for more info and facts about census-designated place) census-designated place and US Army post located in (Click link for more info and facts about El Paso County, Texas) El Paso County, Texas.
		The Fort is named for Lieutenant Colonel William Bliss, who was a son-in-law of President (12th President of the United States; died in office (1784-1850)) Zachary Taylor and who was re-interred at Fort Bliss National Cemetery on post.
		Fort Bliss was staffed in 1849 to guard (A city in western Texas on the Mexican border; located on the northern bank of the Rio Grande across from the Mexican city of Juarez) El Paso.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fo/fort_bliss,_texas.htm (856 words)

	Why War? Keywords: Fort Bliss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fort Bliss, Texas, is the home of the US Army Air Defense Center, located 70 miles to the south of White Sands Missile Range.
		Fort Bliss was staffed in 1849 to guard El Paso, at first on the banks of the Rio Grande river, overlooking Mexico.
		To this day, the walls of the Fort Bliss Officers Club still contain adobe bricks from over a century ago, and the installation has survived, in contrast to Fort Selden, 45 miles to the northwest, which is crumbling back into desert.
	www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/places/Fort_Bliss (225 words)

	Fort Bliss
		Fort Bliss is the home of the Air Defense Artillery Center of Excellence and is responsible for air defense artillery training of U.S. soldiers and various allied nation soldiers.
		Fort Bliss is the largest installation in TRADOC (1.1 Million Acres), and the second largest in the Army (WSMR is the largest and is adjacent to Ft. Bliss).
		Fort Bliss is comprised of a complex of facilities, training areas, and ranges to support training and test activities of the Army and other organizations, including the Main Cantonment Area, and the Fort Bliss Training Complex: McGregor Range, Doña Ana Range—North Training Areas, and South Training Areas.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/fort-bliss.htm (2542 words)

	Fort Bliss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The fort was first established in the late 1840s at the end of the Mexican-American war, when the United States gained possession of former Mexican territories in the Southwest.
		Bliss fought against the Cherokee, taught at West Point, served as chief of staff to Gen. Zachary Taylor in the Mexican-American War and married Taylor’s daughter.
		On July 9, 1850, Colonel Bliss was assigned as Adjutant General of the Western Division of the Army in New Orleans.
	www.cem.va.gov /nchp/ftbliss.htm (1456 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: FORT BLISS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A military board, however, convened to investigate the reopening of the post as a result of the violence; the board recommended in 1878 that Fort Bliss be reestablished, and the post was moved to downtown El Paso, which soldiers called Garrison Town.
		Fort Bliss was almost supplanted by Fort Selden, eighteen miles north of Las Cruces, New Mexico, but was kept in El Paso by community leaders, who contributed about $7,000 for the purchase of land on Lanoria Mesa, five miles east of town.
		Fort Bliss also changed from an infantry station to the largest cavalry post in the United States.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/FF/qbf3.html (1105 words)

	ABQjournal: Fort Bliss Soldiers Struggle With Loss
		Fort Bliss officials said soldiers with the 507th Maintenance Company were traveling with the 3rd Infantry Division when they were either killed, wounded or taken captive.
		Fort Bliss officials immediately activated support services such as the Family Unit Readiness Group and chaplains to provide support to the families affected by the incident.
		Officials with the 11th Brigade Air Defense Artillery from Fort Bliss remained tight-lipped Sunday as to which battery fired the suspected missile or where it came from, saying the matter was still under investigation.
	www.abqjournal.com /news/military/848637news03-24-03.htm (761 words)

	Fort Bliss Lodging Services
		Fort Bliss Lodging Services is located in the heart of the Sun City - close to the El Paso International Airport, William Beaumont Army Hospital, the downtown area, Wyler Aerial Tramway, and the El Paso Convention Center - with a breath-taking view of the Franklin Mountains.
		Fort Bliss is home to the U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery School and four combat ADA brigades.
		Fort Bliss' partner organizations include: William Beaumont Army Medical Center, the United States Army Sergeants Major Academy, Joint Task Force Six, the German Air Force Command (United States/Canada), and the German Air Defense School.
	www.blissmwr.com /Lodging (203 words)

	"C" Year Round Event (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Inn at Fort Bliss is located at 1744 Victory Ave.
		Fort Bliss is an active U.S. Army post, and is under heightened security conditions.
		This 10 km trail is flat (1) along the sidewalks of Fort Bliss.
	home.earthlink.net /~jaycm2/cyre.html (406 words)

	Air Defense Artillery Museum; Fort Bilss, Fort Bliss, Texas
		The Fort Bliss Replica Museum was opened on November 6, 1955, and was assigned to the Plans and Operations Division of DPT.
		Curator vacancies existed for nearly one year at the ADA and Fort Bliss Museums due to employees' changing positions and turnover in the staff, which still occurs periodically due to the training and promotion policy of the Division.
		These adobe buildings were constructed in 1948 as a donation to Fort Bliss by the citizens of El Paso on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Fort Bliss.
	www.museumsusa.org /museums/info/1167586 (1559 words)

	Fort Bliss Federal Credit Union creates new NMSU awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fort Bliss FCU's four existing faculty and staff awards, also presented during the fall convocation, will be increased from $500 to $1,000 each.
		Since 1994, Fort Bliss FCU has honored two faculty members annually -- one from the main campus and one from a branch campus -- for contributions to the university and service to local, state, national or international agencies.
		Fort Bliss Federal Credit Union is a $318 million, full service, federally chartered credit union with offices in El Paso and Las Cruces.
	www.nmsu.edu /~ucomm/Releases/2001/Jan2001/ftbliss.html (463 words)

	AllRefer.com - Fort Bliss, United States (Miscellaneous U.S. Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Fort Bliss, U.S. army post, 1,122,500 acres (454,300 hectares), W Tex., E of El Paso; est.
		The fort's location has changed several times as a result of flooding; its present site, on a mesa, was established in 1890.
		Fort Bliss is now the Army Air Defense Center, training missilemen, artillerymen, and air-defense units.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/FortBlis.html (238 words)

	Fort Bliss on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		FORT BLISS, TEXAS Chief Warrant Officer Ronald D. Young gets a hug from Apache helicopter pilot and fellow POW David Williams Saturday, April 19, 2003, at Fort Hood, Texas.
		FT BLISS, TX -- Former U.S. POWs wave to the thousands of people that greeted them upon their arrival at Fort Bliss, Texas, on Saturday, April 19, 2003.
		FT BLISS, TX -- Thousands of people show their support for the former U.S. POWs at Biggs Airfield at Fort Bliss, Texas, on Saturday, April 19, 2003.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/f/fortb1lis.asp (812 words)

	Families \| Military Families \| Military Program Summery - Fort Bliss and Fort Hood
		Fort Bliss has a puppet show that provides educational programs for children and youth on several topics from child abuse to bicycle safety.
		Fort Bliss Extension Agents are extensively cross trained in programs due to limited staff in all community service areas.
		Staff assistants are at both Fort Bliss and Fort Hood to provide this vital single point of contact service to the military community.
	fcs.tamu.edu /families/military_families/military_program_summary.htm (1353 words)

	WINDOWS\DESKTOP\epcc web site\dalia_sty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		EPCC's Fort Bliss campus has had to alter all of its classes for the remainder of the semester because of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
		This semester was one of the busiest ever for the Fort Bliss campus, which is a part of the Fort Bliss Education Center.
		All Fort Bliss classes were canceled from the 11th to the 13th.
	www.epcc.edu /ftp/Homes/elcon/092701f2.htm (338 words)

	Real Estate Fort Bliss : MLS RealEstate TX
		Featuring a name that evokes somewhat ironic images, Fort Bliss is a southern Texas census designated community that is a center for border defense and control.
		The community is named Fort Bliss after the Lieutenant Colonel, William Bliss, who also was the son of law of President Zachary Taylor.
		As the purpose of Fort Bliss has changed through the ages, the community continues to house a major military population.
	www.everythingre.com /listings/Texas/Fort_Bliss (238 words)

	El Paso Times - Local news
		The Pentagon recommended moving the Air Defense Artillery Center and School from Fort Bliss to Fort Sill, Okla., in the Base Realignment and Closure list that was released in May. Communities, in regional public hearings across the country, have been asking the independent BRAC Commission to make changes to the plan.
		Fort Bliss, combined with White Sands Missile Range, has more than 4 million acres, Maloney said, which is about the size of Connecticut.
		Fort Bliss alone, at 1.1 million acres, has space for three divisions in addition to the current garrison, he said.
	www.borderlandnews.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050712/NEWS/507120344/1001 (1304 words)

	www.elpasotexas.gov - Economic Overview - Government - Fort Bliss and the El Paso Economy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As of June 2003, Fort Bliss records indicate that it supports over 122,011 combined military and civilian personnel and dependents.
		Fort Bliss is widely recognized for its excellent relations with the El Paso community.
		Fort Bliss units also participate in the “Partnership in Progress” program, in which local businesses form partnerships with units and formulate a learning exchange program.
	www.elpasotexas.gov /econdev/gov_bliss.asp (368 words)

	Fort Selden, New Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fort Bliss in El Paso was chosen for expansion, and Fort Selden was doomed to be abandoned.
		Fort Selden was declared a New Mexico state monument in 1974.
		Fort Selden is located along the Rio Grande approximately 13 miles north of Las Cruces, in southern New Mexico.
	www.zianet.com /wblase/courier/fts.htm (764 words)

	War in Iraq -- Fort Bliss community copes with tough news, uncertainty
		Two soldiers from Fort Bliss’ 507th Maintenance Company were killed in action, eight are missing, and five are prisoners of war, Defense Department officials said Wednesday in painting the most distressing portrait yet of Sunday’s ambush near the Iraqi city of An Nasiriyah.
		In addition to the 15 soldiers who are dead, missing or captured, Fort Bliss officials have said four other soldiers were wounded but are now in military hospitals.
		Fort Bliss officials said in a news release Wednesday that “pursuit of public statements by family members at this time is not in the best interests of our soldiers who are or may be held captive.”
	www.militarycity.com /iraq/1712452.html (873 words)

	United Press International - US Regional - Fort Bliss described as 'somber' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		FORT BLISS, Texas, March 24 (UPI) -- The mood was somber Tuesday at Fort Bliss in West Texas where families and friends awaited further word on captured members of the Army's 507th Maintenance Co.
		The 507th Maintenance Co. is part of the 5th Battalion, 52nd Air Defense Artillery, 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade based at Fort Bliss.
		Jean Offutt, a Fort Bliss spokeswoman, said the entire community is concerned about the soldiers.
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20030324-044421-4322r (721 words)

	Fort Tours \| Fort Bliss (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Fort Bliss Museum is located in several adobe structures that were a gift to the U. Army by the city of El Paso in 1948.
		The Fort Bliss Museum is located on the southeast corner of Pershing and Pleasanton Roads.
		You can enter the Fort Bliss installation every day through the gates at Robert E. Lee (east), Cassidy Road (east and west), and Marshall Road (north).
	www.forttours.com /pages/tocfbliss.asp (161 words)

	Army Energy Success Stories - Fort Bliss, USALIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In a project beginning in FY 95 and ending in FY 96 approximately 26 percent of the total natural gas lines on Fort Bliss were replaced using OMA funds.
		In a FY93 project, 9 MW of standby diesel generators were connected to the power grid at the main substation at Fort Bliss.
		Cost avoidance savings amount to around $900k per year and at a cost of about $260k per year for charge back fees, engine hour operation fees, fuel costs, maintenance costs, operator's salaries, etc. The project was expanded to 13.5 MW in FY96 and expected savings amount to $1.2M per year.
	www.hqda.army.mil /acsimweb/fd/policy/genenergy/bliss.htm (216 words)

	Fort Bliss Museum Project
		Despite the increased security measures at Fort Bliss since the horrific events of September 11, the museums continue to have steady visitors, both tourists and planned groups.
		The new Fort Bliss Museum and Study Center is up and running.
		It is a tribute and already a Fort Bliss showpiece.
	www.firsttofire.com /newmuseumproject.htm (442 words)

	United Press International: FORT BLISS DESCRIBED AS 'SOMBER'@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		FORT BLISS, Texas, Mar 24, 2003 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- The mood was somber Tuesday at Fort Bliss in West Texas where families and friends awaited further word on captured members of the Army's 507th Maintenance Co.
		Two news briefings were tentatively scheduled but later postponed by post officials who said they were awaiting more details.
		"The mood at Bliss is pretty somber," said Robert Emmett,...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:72806598&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (179 words)

	DefenseLINK News: Arrival Sets Tone for Civic Leaders' Fort Bliss Visit
		The Joint Civilian Orientation Conference's introduction to Fort Bliss on April 29 was highly symbolic of the nature and mission of the installation they were about to visit - and one the conference participants will never forget.
		With engines roaring and the sparse accommodations rattling from speed and thrust, the passengers quickly realized they were in the midst of a combat assault landing of the type U.S. forces used when landing at Baghdad airport at the height of hostilities.
		The Patriot battalion at Fort Bliss was the first to be armed with Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missiles - new "hit-to-kill" technology that holds 16 missiles rather than the four held by the older version.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/May2005/20050502_845.html (1584 words)

	Fort Bliss, TX; brackish water desalination plant and support facilities; construction and operation,
		Fort Bliss, TX; brackish water desalination plant and support facilities; construction and operation,, Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Leasing of Lands at Fort Bliss, TX for the Proposed Siting, Construction, and Operation by the City of El Paso of a Brackish Water Desalination Plant and Support Facilities
		Both Fort Bliss and the City of El Paso have considered constructing desalination facilities to tap into this potential water source.
		The two concentrate disposal methods under consideration include (1) injecting the concentrate underground into a confined zone where it would be isolated from potable water sources, or (2) piping the concentrate to evaporation ponds, where the liquid would evaporate leaving a solid salt residue that would be trucked to a landfill for final disposal.
	thefederalregister.com /d.p/2005-01-28-05-689 (882 words)

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