Fort Sam Houston, Texas
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KJKlock
N 29° 26.723 W 098° 27.028
14R E 553293 N 3257457
Fort Sam Houston is loacted in the center of San Antonio, TX.
Waymark Code: WM77DN
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 09/13/2009
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In 1876, the Army began to move its Alamo-area facilities to the present site of Fort Sam Houston upon completion of the Quadrangle. The post has since increased in size from the original 92 acres donated to the Army by the city of San Antonio, to approximately 3,000 acres today.
At the end of the Second World War, the Army decided to make Fort Sam Houston the principal medical training facility. In conjunction with this decision, came the determination to develop Brooke General Hospital into one of the Army's premier medical centers. Today, Fort Sam Houston is the largest and most important military medical training facility in the world.
Fort Sam Houston is now the home of the Army Medical Command headquarters, and many other command headquarters such as Fifth U.S. Army (U.S. Army North), U.S. Army South, Fifth Recruiting Brigade, 12th ROTC Brigade, U.S. Navy Regional Recruiting, the San Antonio Military Entrance and Processing Station, and the U.S. Naval School of Health Sciences, Bethesda Detachment.
Also located at Fort Sam Houston are Brooke Army Medical Center, the Great Plains Regional Medical Command, Headquarters Dental Command, Headquarters Veterinary Command, the Institute for Surgical Research (trauma/burn center), the Defense Medical Readiness Training Institute, and the Army Medical Department NCO Academy.
Era: Napoleonic - WW I
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