Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Fort Bliss, TX

Fort Bliss is a United States Army post and census-designated place in El Paso County, Texas - not an incorporated city - serving as one of the Army's most important training and deployment installations.

Fort Bliss was established in 1848 as an Army post opposite El Paso del Norte, and it was renamed Fort Bliss on March 8, 1854 in honor of Lieutenant Colonel William Wallace Smith Bliss.

Fort Bliss covers about 1.12 million acres across Texas and New Mexico, making it larger than the state of Rhode Island, the Department of Defense's second-largest installation, and the largest installation in US Army Forces Command; it adjoins the White Sands Missile Range.

Fort Bliss controls the largest contiguous restricted airspace in the continental United States at about 1,500 square miles, along with the Army's largest maneuver area at about 992,000 acres.

Fort Bliss is home to the 1st Armored Division, the 'Old Ironsides,' which moved from Wiesbaden, Germany under the BRAC realignment and uncased its colors at the post on May 13, 2011; roughly 33,000 active-duty soldiers are stationed there.

Fort Bliss also hosts the 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command, the 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, the Joint Modernization Command, and Joint Task Force North.

The William Beaumont Army Medical Center at Fort Bliss is a major military trauma and treatment center.

Biggs Army Airfield at Fort Bliss has the longest runway in the US Army.

Fort Bliss was a center of Air Defense Artillery during the Cold War, when soldiers trained there on anti-aircraft missile systems defending against Soviet bombers.

Fort Bliss sits in the hot, dry Chihuahuan Desert climate of the El Paso region, with intense summer heat and very little rainfall.