Fort Bliss News

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The new Sun Metro Transit Terminal is under construction at Glory Road and North Oregon.

At their regular meeting Thursday, the Texas Transportation Commission acted unanimously to approve roughly $2 billion in highway projects aimed at increasing safety, rehabilitating pavement, expanding highway corridors of statewide significance and reducing traffic congestion in communities across the state.

Establishing law and order in Iraq requires more than kicking down doors and eliminating insurgents.

The shots rang out like firecrackers - pop, pop, pop, bang. Staff Sgt. Aaron "Kyle" Puckett, 30, dropped the lunch he was eating at his desk and ran to the double glass doors that looked directly out on Fort Hood's Soldier Readiness Center, a building just 50 feet away.

The secretary of the Army, John McHugh, came to post on Tuesday to see the construction and growth, and discuss military families, but he also hit hard subjects like troop morale, suicide and mental health.

Unlike video games there is no restart button in real life so for soldiers on the home front it's critical they receive the best training possible.

Back in January 1911, even though El Paso did not yet have a Red Cross, two local males named Jack Armstrong and Richard Brown, both working at Providence Hospital, left their jobs to become self-appointed Red Cross nurses for Mexican revolutionaries.

To end the week of honoring veterans, on Saturday Fort Bliss honored one specific group of vets, while recognizing a handful of current troops in one of the biggest moments of their lives.

Thursday's shootings at Fort Hood, where 13 people were killed, are bringing back painful memories for one Louisville woman.

Retired Maj. Kevin Cregier, who teaches aerospace science and runs the Air Force ROTC at Canyon High School, said he knew of no one from the area currently stationed in Fort Hood.

John P. Galligan, the retired military attorney who now practices criminal defense law in Belton, said he has received e-mail and phone threats since agreeing Monday to represent the man accused opening fire Thursday at Fort Hood, killing 13 and injuring 29.

A grand jury has indicted a Fort Bliss soldier on charges of shooting a fellow soldier near a popular entertainment district in August.

It's tough for some veterans to even think about. "It's just spine chilling," said John Selam, an Army veteran.

A Texas native and serviceman died this week south of the Texas border in a place Fort Bliss has deemed too dangerous for its troops.

Military, friends and families have observed a moment of silence at Fort Hood, Texas and other U.S. military bases as a show of respect for the victims of the shooting rampage.

Fort Bliss and U.S. military bases worldwide observed a moment of silence Friday for the victims of the shooting at Fort Hood.

The number of victims killed in the shooting rampage at Fort Hood now stands at 13.

A medic from Holloman Air Force Base may have been attempting to treat wounded victims in a shooting when he was targeted and killed by gunmen inside a Juarez strip club, a friend of the airman said.

A gang of gunmen killed an off-duty U.S. airman and five other people early Wednesday at a bar in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said.