<text id=01brooks><title>USAF Air Bases: Brooks AFB, Texas</title>
<history>US Air Force: Air Bases</history>
<article><hdr>Brooks AFB, Texas</hdr><body>
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<item><hi format=bold>Command:</hi> AFMC
<item><hi format=bold>Major Unit:</hi> 648th ABG, Human Systems Division and School of Aerospace Medicine (AFMC)—no aircraft assigned
<item><hi format=bold>Tenant Units:</hi> nil
<item><hi format=bold>Location and Origin of Name:</hi> southeast of San Antonio, named for Cadet Sidney Brooks who was killed at Kelly Field on 13 November 1971 when his Curtiss JN-4 nosed down on landing. He was posthumously awarded his wings and commission
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<p>The base was established in February 1918 as a satellite of Kelly Field and was named Brooks Field, housing a balloon and airship school and a primary flying school. The School of Aviation Medicine moved here from New York in 1926. Brooks conducted observation training and the Air Corps Advanced Flying School during the early 1940s. Limited flight operations continued after World War II including pilot training and troop carrier until June 1960, when all flying activities ceased. Subsequently, the base has concentrated on aviation medicine and all manner of health matters for the Air Force. An F-101B and a number of F-105s are withdrawn on the airfield.
