Fort Bliss News

Wilbert and Barbara Bembo of Milton never knew their son, Michael, could sing. 'He used to sing in the church choirs,' she said.

An $11.1 million contract to build the second phase of the Warriors-in-Transition Complex at Fort Bliss has been awarded to FPM Remediations Inc.

Robert S. McNamara, the late U.S. secretary of defense, helped shape El Paso's future with a decision in 1965 that inadvertently opened the way for growth at Fort Bliss.

The family of a Ft. Bliss soldier is back in Kansas City to pick up their goods stolen from a hotel parking lot in June.

The Fort Bliss soldier who's girlfriend accused him of assaulting her was arrested.

Another milestone in the growth at Fort Bliss will be reached today when a brigade combat team that ultimately will add more than 3,400 soldiers to the post's population is officially created.

Most physician assistants do not have to deliver medical care in open fields under enemy fire.

Ruben Troncoso was, for the most part, timid. Even at 6 feet, 4 inches tall, relatives say, he was not one to seek confrontations with anyone, let alone the police.

Violence hitting Baghdad and northern Iraq as the deadline approaches to pull U.S. soldiers out of that nation's cities has not been duplicated in three southern provinces where a Fort Bliss brigade is operating, said the unit's commander.

Twenty-seven members of the Wisconsin Air National Guard assigned to the 115th Fighter Wing, Madison departed for Fort Bliss, Texas, on Friday to receive training before a six-month deployment overseas.

A soldier from San Angelo died June 16. The Department of Defense has released the name of a Texas soldier killed in Iraq.

As Fort Bliss' primary mission changes, the post is also changing the patch that about 150 of its soldiers wear.

Fort Bliss Garrison Commander Col. Edward Manning talked to KFOX about the latest on the Frank Zimmerman case and his punishment.

Soldiers trained to haul everything from Abrams tanks to bottled water gathered with their families Tuesday morning at Biggs Gym as they waited for the plane taking them on the first leg of their journey to Iraq.

A 21-year-old Ft. Bliss soldier died after a head-on collision at Walter Jones Boulevard and Global Reach Boulevard, said police.

A Fort Bliss soldier died Friday in a head-on crash involving two other soldiers.

A Fort Bliss infantryman wounded in combat on a previous tour, died Tuesday when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle in Iraq, Army officials said Friday.

A 20-year-old Fort Bliss soldier died this morning after a car crash near El Paso International Airport, a police spokesman said.

As of Friday, June 19, 2009, at least 4,316 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Fort Bliss soldier killed in morning wreck City, fire, police to discuss postponing raises Sheriff's deputies arrest 6 teens in Fabens CBP officials seize close to a half-ton of marijuana Officers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized more than a half a ton of marijuana worth just under $1 million at two border crossings earlier this week.