Fort Sam Houston

I actually went out there.

My kids were stationed at, um, Fort Sam Houston.

I brought my dough to him.

I said, tell me what I need to do.

I so serious about like this is SATs oh my god

no it's not at all this was posted by jrogers4342 and it's at a place called Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio

oh my god I've been to Fort Sam Houston you have yeah

was it spooky

A lot of people died around San Antonio.

Yes.

As a matter of fact, when I finished up with my AIT at Fort Sam Houston, the Army was trying to save money.

So my first duty assignment was Fort Dix, New Jersey.

So the Army, in all their wisdom, decided they were going to save money.

That was, uh, that was when we would, would split our shift burden, uh, between Lackland, uh, air force base, Wilford hall medical center.

And, uh, and, uh, um, Brook Army Medical Center, which is just off of Fort Sam Houston.

You do a lot of out rotations though.

I did my toxicology rotation at New York Toxicology Center in New York City.

No, I wasn't concerned about it, being a little bit naive maybe, not knowing what to expect.

So after graduating from flight school, Forerucker, we were shipped off, the last 20 of us in the alphabet, to Fort Sam Houston for AMEDS training.

That's medical training for medevac pilots.

Still not sure what the medevac job entailed at that time, but the medical training was good so that when we were transporting our wounded from the battlefield to the hospital, the medic would tell us what we have as far as wounds and what to expect at the hospital, and then we would transmit that to either our ops or right to the medical facility, depending on where we were working out

Personnel assigned to these support details were authorized to wear civilian clothes rather than military uniforms.

Headquartered at Fort Sam, Houston, Texas, the group operated multiple regional offices, such as in Dallas and New Orleans.

They coordinated local background checks, surveillance of potential domestic threat groups, and intelligence sharing with local police and the FBI.

During President John F. Kennedy's trip to Dallas, personnel from the 112th Intelligence Corps Group were active in the area, leading to significant subsequent investigation by the Warren Commission about this and congressional review regarding interagency intelligence sharing and security coordination failures.

So, we'll come back to that in a minute because the reality of the 112th group And what they actually did is interesting.

Now, people have always speculated, well, how did the Dallas police find out so much about Lee Harvey Oswald immediately after the assassination? Rumor has it they got a lot of this information about Lee Harvey Oswald from the 112th because there had been a file created on him.

And remember, I just told you that the 112th out of Fort Sam Houston covered the Dallas area.

Well, they also covered the New Orleans area.

So we're going to do you a favor.

We don't ever do this, but we're going to ship him to San Antonio to Fort Sam Houston so he can be closer to the family.

And so meantime, he was taking all the chemo.

And it didn't work, the chemo.

They weren't calling it healing, but they said, you don't have any leukemia.

We don't know why we're keeping you here, and obviously the chemo's not doing any good.

And so they discharged him from Fort Sam Houston.

A year later, he met his wife-to-be.

I was a medic, and then I changed my MOS after two years and went into lab.

I went to my basic lab, which was four months down in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and then went back out into the field to work.

And then I applied for my advanced course, which was a year long.

And once again, that was at Fort Sam Houston.

And When we were graduating, Baylor University in Waco, Texas, offered us all an associate's degree for $15.

Did you take it?

Didn't do too much.

And that was for eight weeks.

So I said, defending those who defend America.

And I did that for four years at both Fort Hood and Fort Sam Houston, now Joint Base San Antonio.

And I would travel all around the Southwest representing soldiers at courts martial.

So I had detainee abuse cases.