Fort Bliss Monitor

Expanded First Army mission brings
Honoré to Bliss, McGregor Range

Lt. Gen Russel L. Honoré
Commander of First Army

Wilson A. Rivera
Monitor Staff

The commander of First Army, Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honoré visited McGregor Range Jan. 11 to view the process military servicemembers go through in order to prepare for war prior deploying to regions such as Iraq and Afghanistan.

Honoré reviewed convoy live fire runs and other training sites dealing with theater immersion training.
The training here is conducted by the 3rd Brigade, 91st Training Support Division, based out of Camp Parks, Calif. They will be reassigned to the First U.S. Army as one of the two subordinate multi-component headquarters, one training division in the west and another in the east of the U.S.

“The process [of deploying and redeploying Soldiers] is consistent,” even with the expansion of First Army’s command and control over the training conducted, according to Honoré.

Fort Bliss is one of nine Power Projection Platforms for deploying servicemembers. The number of individuals mobilized here are 53, 944, demobilized 22,923 and 29,668 went through the CONUS Replacement Center.
“Since the beginning of war, training of Soldiers has only gotten more formalized. The focus on the training of Soldier’s is based on the way their going to fight,” said Honoré.

Because the training is done at McGregor Range, there is a lot of terrain to cover which is a great opportunity to use and optimize the available resources within the Army and get the most training done out there, according to Honoré.

Prior to leaving Fort Bliss, Honoré shared some words with deploying Navy Seabees who had trained here for more than two months.

“I think it is a great opportunity to serve our nation during a time of war, Fort Bliss is a big part of that. A positive part,” said Honoré.

The mission of training Soldiers as well as Airmen, Sailors and Marines is the same focus of the First United States Army Corps even with their expanded mission which encompasses the rest of the U.S. west of the Mississippi.

Due to the Army’s transformation and restructuring of personnel, the First U.S. Army will have the responsibility of overseeing the training and preparation of Army Reserve and National Guard units in the Continental U.S. as well as two U.S. territories.

The transfer of authority occurred Monday between First U.S. Army and Fifth U.S. Army.
The Fifth U.S. Army now has the responsibility of the Department of Defense support of civilian authorities nationwide and is now known as the U.S. Army North under U.S. Northern Command.



www.bliss.army.mil	Published for the Fort Bliss/El Paso, Texas Community	January 19, 2006

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