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Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 154.7 acres (62.6 ha), and as of 2014, had over 144,000 interments. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
Frank Walsh (baseball umpire) John W. White (general) Edward Thomas Williams. Gerald Evan Williams. Samuel Tankersley Williams. Julius Woeltz. Roscoe B. Woodruff. Categories: Burials in San Antonio by place.
LaPointe was a nature lover and avid hiker. [1] LaPointe was drafted in 1968 and declared himself a conscientious objector. He married Cindy Failor of Dayton, Ohio at the Englewood First Baptist Church in Ohio, during his training at the Army Medical Training Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. [2] He became a combat medic and was sent to Vietnam ...
Fort Sam Houston is known as the "Home of Army Medicine" and "Home of the Combat Medic." At the end of World War II, the Army decided to make Fort Sam Houston the principal medical training facility. [4] In conjunction with this decision came the determination to develop Brooke General Hospital into one of the Army's premier medical centers. [4]
On 23 April 1908 [3] Congress created the Medical Reserve Corps, the official predecessor of the Army Reserve. [4] After World War I, under the National Defense Act of 1920, Congress reorganized the U.S. land forces by authorizing a Regular Army, a National Guard and an Organized Reserve (Officers Reserve Corps and Enlisted Reserve Corps) of unrestricted size, which later became the Army ...
Commanders. Commander. COL Mark Olsen. Command Sergeant Major. CSM Jose M. Salas. Map of the Army ROTC Brigades. The 5th Reserve Officers' Training Corps Brigade is an Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps brigade based at Fort Sam Houston, Texas .
Grave marker of William J. Bordelon, Jr. at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery. He was originally buried in the Lone Palm Cemetery on Betio Island, Tarawa Atoll, [3] then later interred in Honolulu, Hawaii at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. [4] At the request of his brother, Bordelon's body was moved from Hawaii to Texas in 1995. [5]
Houston National Cemetery. Houston National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in Harris County, Texas, near Houston. [1][2] It encompasses 419.2 acres (169.6 ha) only about half of which is developed. The cemetery had more than 111,000 interments as of 2021. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.