8 From afar, the Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation Desert Strike Lanes Bowling Center at Fort Bliss, Texas, on a spring Saturday afternoon in 2021 looks like a scene from February 2020.
Located on west Bliss, today you can hear the familiar thud of 12-pound balls hitting the lanes; and big kids and little kids alike celebrating victory or bemoaning defeat as pins fall–or don’t fall. Elsewhere, moms are counting the amount of hungry military kids in their bowling party, while a food service attendant at the Strike Zone, the center’s snack bar and short-order food spot, takes notes for hot dogs.