In line with Pentagon plans to covert Fort Sam Houston into a major military center for medical training and treatment, the Senate Appropriations Committee has approved $719 million for construction projects at the army post next year, according to the San Antonio Express-News. On July the Bexar county commissioners voted to spend $900 million to expand the University Hospital and clinics, which will complement the San Antonio Military Medical Center at Ft. Sam Houston. In total San Antonio bases would receive nearly $850 million for projects in fiscal year 2009, beginning Oct. 1. Funding for Fort Sam and the new Medical Education and Training Campus will help create the world's largest military medical and education and training institution.
Conversion of Brooke Army Medical Center into the new San Antonio Military Medical Center is expected to cost $1.5 billion and be completed by 2011. In addition, Lackland Air Force Base would receive $127 million and Randolph Air Force Base would receive $2.3 million. These projects are part of a $119.7 billion spending bill for military construction projects sought by the Pentagon and ordered by the 2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission.
The expansion at Ft. Sam Houston and Brooke Army Medical Center, BAMC, is expected bring 5,000 personnel and 9,000 students to San Antonio. The Pentagon plans to create two major military medical centers, one at Fort Sam and one at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD.
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