January 18th, 2025. Fort Bliss Army Base, El Paso, Texas. Just before midnight, Staff Sergeant Marcus Rivera rolled a military Humvee through the main gate. The guard saluted. No search. No questions. On every other day, that would be routine.

But not this night.

Hidden inside welded compartments under that Humvee were 180 kilograms of pure cocaine worth 6.3 million dollars on the street. Rivera was not on military duty. He was doing a cartel run for the Sinaloa Cartel, using his uniform, his base access, and his government vehicle as a perfect shield.

And he was not alone.

Over five years, 34 soldiers and 3 officers at Fort Bliss turned one of America’s biggest Army bases into a cartel superhighway. They used military vehicles to bypass Border Patrol checkpoints, exploited the professional courtesy that kept soldiers from being searched, and moved an estimated 890 million dollars worth of cocaine, meth, and fentanyl right through a US Army installation.

Some enlisted soldiers made 50 thousand to 150 thousand dollars per trip. Officers coordinating the runs pulled in up to 300 thousand dollars a month. The very people sworn to defend the United States were moving poison for the same cartels that murder Americans and attack US agents.

In this Truth America investigation, we break down:

* How Fort Bliss became the perfect smuggling corridor for the Sinaloa Cartel
* How cartel recruiters targeted soldiers with gambling debts, family problems, and money issues
* How three Army officers sold their rank and authority to protect the network from inside
* How DEA, FBI, and Army CID quietly built a joint case and locked down an entire base overnight
* What agents found in the soldiers’ homes, vehicles, and bank accounts
* The dual punishment: court-martial under the UCMJ and decades in federal prison
* The new safeguards the Army put in place so this never happens again

This is not just a drug story. It is a story about betrayal inside the United States military, and the price that comes with breaking your oath.