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Of all the Army installations in the United States, none mobilizes or demobilizes more service members than Fort Bliss, in El Paso, which transitions some 26,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines each year. But when families gathered to welcome back 48 soldiers of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, who returned from eastern Afghanistan on the Friday before Memorial Day, something was different. It wasn’t that the troops, part of a select group of 300, were returning from a nine-month tour in which their primary mission was not to engage in combat but to advise Afghan security forces. And it wasn’t that, unlike so many other units that have returned to Fort Bliss in recent years, they brought back every soldier they left…View Original Post
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Of all the Army installations in the United States, none mobilizes or demobilizes more service members than Fort Bliss, in El Paso, which transitions some 26,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines each year. But when families gathered to welcome back 48 soldiers of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, who returned from eastern Afghanistan on the Friday before Memorial Day, something was different. It wasn’t that the troops, part of a select group of 300, were returning from a nine-month tour in which their primary mission was not to engage in combat but to advise Afghan security forces. And it wasn’t that, unlike so many other units that have returned to Fort Bliss in recent years, they brought back every soldier they left…View Original PostThe post A Homecoming at Fort Bliss appeared first on Texas Monthly.
