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Fort Sam Houston

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Fort Sam Houston, U.S. army base, 3,300 acres (1,335 hectares), S Tex., in San Antonio; headquarters of the Fifth Army. San Antonio, long a military center, donated land in 1870 for the site of a permanent military post that was constructed from 1876 to 1890 and named for Gen. Sam Houston. The famous

Brooke Army Medical Center, the major training center for army medics and the home of the Army Medical Service School, is located on the post.



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Written by former columnist Lee Ann Newton and Civil War researcher and Fort Sam Houston Garrison Chaplain James A.
C, and attended her advanced individual training as a dental technician at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
The community was militarily oriented, with Randolph Air Force Base and Fort Sam Houston nearby.
 
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