Fort Bliss’s William Beaumont Army Medical Center Commander, Col. Wendy L. Gray, and her senior enlisted advisor, Command Sgt. Maj. Jason W. Skaggs, sign the beam used for the topping off ceremony of the Veterans Administration Health Care Center at Fort Bliss. The topping off ceremony is a decades-old construction tradition, a milestone marking the placement of the final structural beam. The completed building will be roughly 493,00 square feet servicing approximately 54,000 southwestern area veterans from Texas and New Mexico.