Fort Bliss Monitor

Tactical Equipment Shop
31st CSH breaks ground for new building

1st Lt. Victor Hoffer
31st ADA Bde.

Fort Bliss Commanding General Maj. Gen. Michael A. Vane and Texas Congressman Silvestre Reyes joined Soldiers and leaders of 31st Air Defense Artillery Brigade and representatives of William Beaumont Army Medical Center Friday for the official start of construction on a Tactical Equipment Shop for the 31st Combat Support Hospital.

Vane, Reyes and Col. Jeff Oeser, commander of 31st ADA Bde., moved the first shovels of dirt and sand during the 30-minute groundbreaking ceremony.

“This groundbreaking is the first step in construction of a Tactical Equipment Shop for the 31st CSH,” said Vane. “They’ve been taking care of Soldiers over in Iraq ... This new facility is a real welcome-home surprise, just one part of what this post is trying to do [to enhance Soldier care].”

The new Tactical Equipment Shop will be built by Urban Associates. The construction began Nov. 2 and should end in December of next year. The facility will provide and enhance the maintenance abilities of the CSH, as well as enable additional storage and organizational parking for the unit.

The 31st CSH deploys with forward units, establishes and maintains hospital and emergency medical facilities to aid U.S. and coalition servicemembers, as well as civilians and captured combatants or enemy personnel. Deployed through most of 2004, a portion of the CSH returned from Operation Iraqi Freedom II/III earlier this year, and the remaining Soldiers – roughly 400 of them – are scheduled to return early next year.



www.bliss.army.mil	Published for the Fort Bliss/El Paso, Texas Community	November 4 , 2004

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