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Fort Sam Houston| Military installation in east-central San Antonio, Texas. It occupies a 13.4 sq km/5 sq mi site just east of Brackenridge Park and 3 km/2 mi northeast of the city centre. ‘Fort Sam’ is famous as the training ground for the ‘Rough Riders’, the illustrious cavalry unit formed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1898 to fight in the Spanish–American War. US military aviation also began here in 1910, when Lieutenant Benjamin Foulois piloted a Wright biplane from the fort. |
| Fort Sam Houston was formally established in 1890, although parts of its grounds had been in use since the 1870s; the heavily constructed quadrangle dates from 1879. The fort is now home to Brooke Army Medical Centre and to the Institute for Surgical Research, famous for its plastic surgery treatment of severe burns. It is also the headquarters of the Fifth Army, and controls training at Camp Bullis (area 113 sq km/44 sq mi), 23 km/14 mi to the northwest, outside the San Antonio city limits.In addition to being the site of military exercises, Bullis is also a grazing area and wildlife refuge. |
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| Margo Pate from Fort Bragg, NC, writes, "After being a CDA for 12 yrs, what I considered a dream, came true and after applying and qualifying, I went to phase 1 EFDA training at Fort Sam Houston, TX . Wesner Year Duty Station 1924 Madison Barracks, NY 1925 Schofield Barracks, HI 1926 Fort Davis, Canal Zone (Panama) 1927 Fort Bliss, TX 1928 Fort Bragg, NC 1929 Fort Benning, GA 1930 Schofield Barracks, HI 1931 Fort Sheridan, IL 1932 Schofield Barracks, HI 1933 1934 Schofield Barracks, HI 1935 Fort Riley, KS 1936 Fort Sam Houston, TX 1937 Fort Francis E. D Greathouse, PhD, PT, is Director, US Army-Baylor University Graduate Program in Physical Therapy, US Army Academy of Health Sciences, and Associate Director, Electrodiagnostic Laboratory, Neurology Service, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234 (USA). |