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Fort Bliss is a United States Army post in New Mexico and Texas, with its headquarters in El Paso, Texas.Named in honor of LTC William Bliss (1815–1853), a mathematics professor who was the son-in-law of President Zachary Taylor, Ft. Bliss has an area of about 1,700 square miles (4,400 km 2); it is the largest installation in FORSCOM (United States Army Forces Command) and second-largest in ...
Between 1954 and 1965 the U.S. Army expanded its McGregor Range facilities at Fort Bliss onto Otero Mesa by purchasing ranches. [ 57 ] [ 58 ] In 2005, the Bureau of Land Management approved the area for exploratory drilling for oil and gas, [ 59 ] but that approval is currently being litigated [ citation needed ] by the state of New Mexico and ...
Fort Bliss: McGregor Range: X-253 7th Army F2 27 June 1973: Fort Bliss: McGregor Range: X-254 7th Army F3 operational test 27 June 1973: Fort Bliss: McGregor Range: X-255 7th Army F4 operational test (failure) 17 July 1973: 14:53: Fort Bliss: McGregor Range: X-256 BRD F5 17 July 1973: 16:19: Fort Bliss: McGregor Range: X-257 BRD F6 26 July 1973 ...
Deploying units include a terminal high-altitude area defense battery and associated air defense headquarters elements from Fort Bliss.
Located at 32.145833, -106.506111 on the Doña Ana Range Complex, which is part of Fort Bliss Training Center at Fort Bliss. Used for training by the U.S. Army. [31] [32] McGregor Base Camp, near Alvarado, Otero County, New Mexico. Located at 32.080557483526924, -106.17666465823983 on the McGregor Range Complex, which is part of Fort Bliss ...
McGregor Range in extreme southeast of map. The McGregor Range extends north–south to the west of Fitch Glacier, which runs south to join Man-o-War Glacier, which in turn runs southwest to join Tucker Glacier. On its east the range is bounded by Leander Glacier, which runs along its north and west sides to join Tucker Glacier. Mount Brazil is ...
Topo map NTS 93I3 Gleason Creek [ 2 ] The McGregor Range is a mountain range in the Central Interior of British Columbia , located between the main spine of the Rocky Mountains and the Fraser River on the northeast and southwest, and between the Torpy River on its southeast and the McGregor River on its northwest.
During the 1983–1989 time frame the New Mexico Army National Guard began a complete modernization program to gain high technology type units. The 5th Battalion, 200th Air Defense Artillery (Roland) was fielded at McGregor Range (a part of Fort Bliss located in New Mexico). This unit was inactivated in September 1988 due to Federal budget cuts.