Brooks City-Base (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Brooks City-Base is a former United States Air Force base located in San Antonio, Texas, 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Downtown San Antonio. The host unit is the 311th Air Base Group.The U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM) at Brooks is known internationally as the premier center for aerospace medical learning, consultation, and aircrew health assessment.Brooks is one of the oldest facilities in the United States Air Force, being established on 8 December 1917 as Brooks Field, being one of the initial World War I Army Air Service installations. Flying at Brooks, however predates its military establishment, as the facility was known as Gosport Field prior to the first Army airplanes arriving on 5 December 1917.