Despite what local know-it-alls, business leaders and politicos will tell you, Ft. Bliss is not going anywhere due to BRAC.
Read below:
"The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 specifically prohibits authorization of future BRAC rounds: No future Base Realignment and Closure round for military installations within the United Sates, its commonwealths, territories, and possessions for realignment or closure shall be authorized until, at the very earliest, the Department of Defense has completed and submitted to Congress a formal review of the overseas military facility structure, which incorporates overseas basing consolidations, an assessment of the need for bases to support overseas contingency operations, and the Department of Defense's Strategic Choices and Management Review."
Anyone who tells you that there's any chance Ft. Bliss is on the chopping block is lying to your face. It's up to you to figure out why they are choosing to lie to you.
Even if there was a round BRAC cuts, Ft. Bliss would never ever be on that list. The bases that get cut in under BRAC are tiny, useless bases where the decision is obvious. They will not cut or eliminate a base with $1 billion in construction underway. And let's not forget - Ft. Bliss is the only base in the nation that can replicate the fighting conditions of the middle eastern countries where we will be fighting for the next 100 years.
Don't fooled into doing something you don't want to do because some liar tells you that if you don't they'll take Ft. Bliss from El Paso. It's not happening.
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