Texas Strategic Military Texas Strategic Military Planning CommissionPlanning Commission

21 August 200221 August 2002

Army Installations in Texas

Fort Bliss

Fort Hood

Fort Sam Houston

Corpus Christi Army Depot*

Red River Army Depot

Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant

*on Naval Air Station Corpus Christi

Fort Bliss

• 1.1 million acres (1,719 square miles), second-largest Army base

• With WSMR, provides largest air–space in US inventory

• Ranges accommodate all Army weapons

• Power Projection Platform

• Runway is third longest in USA

Fort Bliss, continued

• Departure/Arrival Airfield Control Group facility ($12.7 million) opened Aug 2002

• Rail Deployment Facility ($26 million) under construction, to open 2004

• Biannual Joint/Combined Exercise: Roving Sands (11,000 participants)

Fort Bliss, continued

• Mobilization: Trains, validates, prepares active & reserves to deploy. CONUS Replacement Center Battalion processed 2200 soldiers since 9/11.

• Air & Missile Defense School; Sergeants Major Academy; JTF 6; 204th MI Bn

• 32dAADCOM, 4 Patriot AMD Brigades• Wm Beaumont Army Medical Center• German AF Hq and AD School

Fort Bliss, continued

• 3d ACR transferred to Ft Carson 1995• BRAC 95 rated Bliss highest of 14 Training

Schools; therefore, not considered for closure or realignment

• Bliss identified as installation where large forces could be added without large upfront investment: add one maneuver bde w/o construction, four with construction

Fort Bliss, continued

• Assessment: Based on Army’s need to retain maneuver space and installations for maneuver forces, the high rating as a training installation, and the Army’s continuing improvement, development and acquisition of air defense systems, Fort Bliss appears secure through 2020.

Fort Hood

• “Army’s Premier Maneuver Installation.”• III Corps Hq; lst Cav Div w/3 brigades; 4th

Inf Div w/2 brigades; 13th COSCOM; Operational Test Command; US Army Medical Activity; et al

• 215,000 acres (336 square miles)• Training & mobilization – active forces,

Army Reserve and National Guard

Fort Hood, continued

• Power Projection Platform• Testing revisions to heavy division structure

(Force XXI), unit strengths expected to be reduced.

• Some environmental concerns, could cause movement of units to other maneuver installations

• At maximum capacity for maneuver units

Fort Hood, continued

• Outlook: BRAC 95 rated top of eleven maneuver installations analyzed; therefore, not analyzed for realignment or closure.

Fort Sam Houston

• “Home of Army Medicine”• Army’s Medical Department Center and School;

Fifth Army Headquarters; Brooke Army Medical Center w/450 Beds; III Corps medical units; et al.

• 3150 acres, plus 28,000 acres at Camp Bullis• Some excess building space, mostly in “historic

designation” buildings• Concerns: Water-related and encroachment issues,

especially encroachment of Camp Bullis

Fort Sam Houston, continued

• Outlook: BRAC 95 rated FSH eleven of fourteen (4 points out of 8), but excused FSH from further study due to unique medical expertise and medical training facilities, including Camp Bullis

Corpus Christi Army Depot

• A tenant activity of Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. The Army’s installation assessments do not include CCAD since it is on the real estate of the Navy.

• Army’s only organic facility for repair, maintenance and overhaul of rotary wing aircraft. Provides services to Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force. Trains Army, Reserve, National Guard and foreign military personnel. Conducts crash damage analysis, lubricating oil analysis, chemical, metallurgical and training support.

Corpus Christi Army Depot, cont’d

• Designated a Center for Industrial Technical Excellence for rotary wing aircraft in August 2001. CCAD has entered into partnerships with General Electric and Sikorsky Aircraft, and others.

• Outlook: Army plans to continue the Services’ largest rotary wing program. This, plus future additions of Comanche and Apache Longbow, suggest continuing need for capabilities of CCAD.

Red River Army Depot

• Repairs, rebuilds, overhauls Bradley Fighting Vehicle, MLRS chassis, Patriot missile, tactical wheeled vehicles, aircraft armament subsystems, rebuilds road-wheels and track shoes

• Stores 174,000 tons of ammunition in a 9000-acre secured area. Renovates and demolishes conventional ammunition; repairs and stores missiles and missile systems.

• 2882 employees; 19,000 acres; in NE Texas, 12 miles from Arkansas line. Contiguous with, shares some services with LSAAP

Red River Army Depot, cont’d

• Hosts: DLA’s Distribution Depot, with 1000 employees, 180,000 line items for worldwide distribution; a regional Defense Finance and Accounting Service Center; US Army Material Command Logistics Leadership Center and Red River Munitions; et al.

• RRAD has declared a portion of its 19,000 acres and facilities excess to its needs. The Bowie County Local Redevelopment Authority received 765 acres with 128 buildings in 1999. Utility privatization has begun.

Red River Army Depot, cont’d

• BRAC 95: Army recommended RRAD be closed, but Base Closure Commission found risk to readiness in closure to be too great, recommended RRAD transfer all maintenance missions except BFV to other depots or private sector. Completed.

• Outlook: Another Army BRAC analysis could reach similar conclusions

Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant

• 15,546 acres in NE Texas 12 miles west of Arkansas line, contiguous with RRAD, shares some services; 400 employees.

• Government owned contractor-operated facility for load,assemble and pack of munitions such as Improved Conventional Munitions, scatterable mines, hand grenades, detonators and artillery primers. Also produces munitions for Foreign Military Sales, other systems contractors.

Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant, cont’d

• Production lines are in a limited caretaker status• Operation Enterprises, Annandale, Va., is

marketing elements of LSAAP to commercial and industrial concerns.

• BRAC 95 ranked LSAAP second of eight active ammunition production facilities. Due to its high military value LSAAP was not selected for closure or realignment study.

Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant, cont’d

• Industrial Operations Command (parent hq. for ammo production facilities) in 1997 added five plants to three previously designated as excess to Army needs. LSAAP was not designated as excess.

• Outlook: Based on unique nature of several production lines and high BRAC rating, LSAAP appears secure.