AHC: Make the Texarkana metro area bigger

So Texarkana was named after Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana because of its border location near the junction of those three states. Nevertheless, it's still fairly tiny and the metro area has about 120,000 people. With a POD of 1900 and without making it the capital of either Texas or Arkansas, make Texarkana a large metro area comparable in population to that of El Paso (approx 840k) or Little Rock (approx 730k).
 
Currently, the biggest employeer is the Red River Army Depot, which is pretty small. If we replace it with a bigger military presence, we boost the population. Ft. Bragg is the largest USArmy base, followed by Ft. Campbell, Ft. Hood, Ft. Lewis, and Ft. Benning.

Ft. Hood needs the open spaces for armor. Ft. Lewis is on the west coast. The other three bases are the homes of the main airborne units and training centers, as well as several special operations units. If we tweek things, we can possibly get them to Texarkana...
 
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