Fort Bliss News

About 20 Southeast Texas employers are seeing another side of their employees--The National Guard side.

Soldiers of the Army Evaluation Task Force demonstrated several pieces of new equipment Nov.

Nov. 22--Germany invaded Poland in 1939 setting off the possibility of American forces being involved in the war.

The Army & Air Force Exchange Service has raised $90 million in debt for Fort Bliss retail development Dallas Business Journal - by Jeff Bounds Staff writer Bud Force IN GROWTH MODE: Capt.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A career soldier from Sheboygan is headed to Iraq today for a yearlong deployment as the head of intelligence for a 4,600-soldier division.

Troops serving in combat zones soon will be required to sit down for a series of interviews with counselors trained to recognize post-traumatic stress disorder, suicidal tendencies and other mental health problems.

The gray clouds held their rain until mourners began to leave the cemetery after the town's first casualty of the Iraq war was laid to rest Saturday.

Longtime El Pasoan Antonio "Tony" Jordan, father of former DEA official Phil Jordan, died Monday from lung surgery complications, his relatives said.

U.S. soldiers overseas are marking this national holiday. Action 2 News spoke with several Wisconsin soldiers via satellite who say they know this year Veterans Day has additional meaning.

The tone was somber and hearts were heavy Tuesday afternoon, as soldiers, civilians and officials waited for 13 men and women to be honored.

John P. Galligan, a retired military attorney who now practices criminal defense law said he was contacted Monday by the brother of the man accused opening fire Thursday at Fort Hood, killing 13 and injuring 29.

From her home in Perris, a military mother talked to Eyewitness News about the shooting in Fort Hood.

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.

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

A 25-year-old soldier from Anthony, N.M., was killed in Iraq after being hit by sniper fire, Fort Bliss officials said Thursday.