FORT BLISS, Texas (KVIA) — The 1st Armored Division and Fort Bliss will have a change in command by the end of the month, it announced Friday. <\/p>\n
The president nominated Brig. Gen. Brandon Anderson as the next commander of Fort Bliss and the 1st Armored Division on Sept. 30.<\/p>\n
Anderson led a\u00a0mechanized field artillery battalion in the 1st\u00a0Armored Division 10 years ago.<\/p>\n
Anderson relinquished his duties as the commander of the National Training Center and Fort Irwin in California. He’ll also assume command of the Joint Task Force of the Southern Border, which has 8,000 service members.<\/p>\n
Fort Bliss said Anderson has experience training soldiers and caring for a military installation at Fort Irwin. <\/p>\n
It won’t be Anderson’s first time in El Paso. He once led the 4th Battalion, 27th Field Artillery Regiment (“Iron Thunder”). Iron Thunder is a mechanized field artillery battalion at Fort Bliss. <\/p>\n
According to the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, Anderson left Fort Bliss in 2016.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat a privilege it is to be coming back and joining Old Ironsides and the El Paso community,\u201d Anderson said in a statement. <\/p>\n
Maj. Gen. Curtis Taylor currently holds the title of commanding general at the 1st Armored Division and Fort Bliss. <\/p>\n
“Protecting the homeland is the top priority of our national leadership, and Brandon\u2019s selection is a clear indication that the Army values this mission,\u201d said Taylor in a statement. \u201cHis experience at the National Training Center, the Army’s premier combat training center, combined with his leadership as a senior commander at Fort Irwin, will be invaluable. That background is critical for instilling the highest levels of combat readiness in our Iron Soldiers, for leading one of the largest military installations in the United States and for ensuring our nation\u2019s border is defended.”<\/p>\n
Maj. Gen. Taylor will assume duties as the deputy commander of European Command, a three-star general officer position, Fort Bliss said. <\/p>\n
During his 27 months at the 1st Armored Division, Taylor deployed the division to Europe for nine months. He also relocated the JTF-Southern Border mission headquarters from Arizona to El Paso.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy wife and I have loved the special relationship between Fort Bliss and El Paso and will miss this wonderful community here in the Borderland,\u201d said Taylor. \u201cEl Paso has become our home.\u201d<\/p>\n
The division will hold a promotion ceremony for Maj. Gen. Taylor to Lieutenant General and a Division Change of Command on Oct. 30 at the 1st Armored Division Parade Field. The ceremony will start at 8:30 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT BLISS, Texas (KVIA) — The 1st Armored Division and Fort Bliss will have a change in command…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[157795,7423,157796,138,140,139,5032,157797],"class_list":["post-461777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-1st-armored-division","tag-army","tag-brandon-anderson","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-fort-bliss","tag-fort-irwin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}