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Contracting for Soldiers

Mission and Installation Contracting building

one of the oldest on Fort Sam Houston but soon to be among the most modern. Built between 1881 and 1885, is 98,414 square-foot Long Barracks and the old Brooke Army Medical Center symbolized an aging post after they were abandoned in the mid-'90s.

Buildings once used by the Army's most famous commanders, Generals John J. Pershing and Dwight D. Eisenhower among them, are now occupied by a new generation of leaders.

The Long Barracks opened in 1887, after the end of the Indian wars. It was born as a result of a closure round in which small Army posts were shuttered, with the missions going to Fort Sam and other garrisons.

 

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Uploaded on March 27, 2014
Taken on March 24, 2014