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27 Jul 2010

US Army opens its largest fitness facility
BY Tom Walker

The US Army has created its largest ever fitness facility, at the Fort Bliss army base in El Paso, Texas.

The 8,920sq m (96,000sq ft) Joshua W Soto Physical Fitness Facility has been named after a solider who died in combat in Iraq last year.

It offers a 930sq m (10,000sq ft) weights room, a 210-station CV area, and a group cycling studio with space for 60 bikes.

There's also an indoor running track, a combat room, two basketball courts and a fitness assessment room, plus conference facilities and a 186sq m (2,000sq ft) recreation space with pool tables, gaming equipment and computers for soldiers to use.

The new facility is just one of a number of projects undertaken at Fort Bliss to accommodate increased troop levels, which have more than doubled over the last five years; the army is reported to have spent about US$1bn (£666m) on construction there last year alone.

Base Realignment and Closure also provided US$2m (£1.3m) in funding.


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