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Prescribed burns scheduled at JBSA-Camp Bullis starting Dec. 9
December 5, 2024 — Joint Base San Antonio’s Natural Resources Office, Fire & Emergency Services and Air Force Wildland Fire Branch officials plan to conduct prescribed burns at JBSA-Camp Bullis Dec. 9-17 as weather conditions allow... MORE

BAMC holds Nurse Summer Training Program at JBSA-Camp Bullis
September 5, 2024 — Brooke Army Medical Center held its Nurse Summer Training Program at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis, Texas, on Aug. 15, 2024. The program allows nursing students to further develop and practice leadership and clinical skills between their junior and senior years of nursing school. ... MORE

AFIMSC upgrades dining infrastructure at JBSA-Camp Bullis
August 15, 2024 — The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center is building a new dining facility to enhance food service operations at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis, Texas... MORE

USAMTEAC tests new capability of ultrasound field portable for operational use
June 25, 2024 — The U.S. Army Medical Evaluation Test Activity recently conducted an operational test of three ultrasound field portable devices... MORE

Operation AGILE Medic: Joint Forces Collaborate in Full-Spectrum Medical Readiness Exercise
February 6, 2024 — In December 2023, military forces conducted Operation AGILE Medic at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis, Texas. More than 100 medical professionals collaborated to enhance full-spectrum medical readiness. The exercise addressed communication and training gaps, incorporating stress-inducing scenarios and a phased training approach... MORE

Operation AGILE Medic, a week-long exercise at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis, Texas, was a Tri-Service medical training exercise that immersed military medics in the seamless process of transporting patients from the Expeditionary Medical Support unit to the En Route Patient Staging System team, and further to Air Evacuation and Critical Care Air Transport Teams, and vice versa.

PHOTOS | Army South trains at JBSA-Camp Bullis
May 18, 2023 — U.S. Army South Soldiers conducted a variety of training during a staff exercise at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis May 9-11... MORE

Prescribed burns scheduled for JBSA-Camp Bullis Feb. 21-26
February 21, 2023 — Joint Base San Antonio’s Natural Resources Office, Fire & Emergency Services, and Air Force Wildland Fire Branch officials plan to conduct a prescribed burn of more than 1,700 acres of wildlands at JBSA-Camp Bullis from Feb. 21-26. The burns take place between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. each day, weather permitting... MORE

Prescribed burn scheduled for JBSA-Camp Bullis Jan. 21-26

IAAFA students take part in Operation Jaguar
January 18, 2023 — Students from the Inter-American Air Forces Academy at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland took part in Operation Jaguar at JBSA-Camp Bullis Nov. 28-29, 2022... MORE

METC pharmacy tech students conduct first joint FTX
August 31, 2022 — In a first for the Medical Education and Training Campus’ Pharmacy Technician program, 31 Army, Air Force and Coast Guard students jointly conducted a three-day, field training exercise at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis July 12-15... MORE

JBSA-Camp Bullis receives coveted Sentinel Landscape status
April 29, 2022 — The Sentinel Landscapes Partnership recently announced the designation of the area surrounding Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis as a Sentinel Landscape, a decision that could have a major impact on the viability of the installation in the years to come... MORE

Inter-agency support vital to JBSA-Camp Bullis wildfire response
April 9, 2022 — Joint Base San Antonio’s Fire departments from Camp Bullis, Fort Sam Houston, Lackland, and Randolph as well as a Leon Creek Fire Department are currently responding to reports of smoke caused by a wildfire in the demolition range area on Camp Bullis... MORE

Army Reserve Soldiers rock Best Warrior Competition at JBSA-Camp Bullis
March 11, 2022 — The consortium of the Best Warrior Competition, or BWC, was held for Army Reserve Soldiers at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis from March 1-6, 2022. The event was hosted and utilized cadre from eight Army Reserve commands. Soldiers from various Army Reserve units across the U.S. competed for the title of Best Warrior and for the chance to move into the next round... MORE

Army Band Soldiers rock the competition at consortium Best Warrior 2022

Helping the environment: One acre at a time
January 27, 2022 — Joint Base San Antonio’s Natural Resources Office, Fire & Emergency Services, and Air Force Wildland Fire Branch members conducted a prescribed burn from Jan. 18-26 at Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis, Texas... MORE

David Sanchez, Air Force Wildland Fire Branch firefighter

'Operation Dustoff Vigilance' joint exercise strengthens survival skills
July 20, 2021 — In a display of multi-service integration, Total Force service members from the Army National Guard, Air Force Reserve and active duty converged on Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis for an exercise dubbed “Operation Dustoff Vigilance” in order to strengthen the personnel recovery-survival, evasion, resistance, and escape skills of Army aircrews and aviation support personnel... MORE

AACOG-led consortium seeks Sentinel Landscape status for JBSA-Camp Bullis
February 4, 2021 — Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis sits astride the Southern Edwards Plateau on the Northwest edge of San Antonio. This gem of JBSA is vital to military training and readiness as it provides a rugged tactical training area in this Texas Hill Country landscape essential to the training of all military services’ combat medics and Air Force security forces... MORE

Joint Base San Antonio-Camp Bullis sits astride the Southern Edwards Plateau on the Northwest edge of San Antonio.

433rd ASTS trains in receiving incoming patients aboard Black Hawks
January 28, 2021 — The 433rd Aeromedical Staging Squadron, 433rd Airlift Wing, participated in an exercise to train in receiving incoming patients at the Joint Base San Antonio-Chapman Training Annex Jan. 9... MORE

Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 433rd Aeromedical Staging Squadron transport a simulated injured patient from a UH-60 Black Hawk to a Humvee for training Jan 9, 2021 at Joint Base San Antonio-Chapman Training Annex. The training helped provide experience to medics in receiving and transporting combat injured individuals. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Mike Lahrman)

JBSA biologists, fire crew help clear invasive species at JBSA-Camp Bullis
January 15, 2021 — From December to January, Joint Base San Antonio partners helped to protect native vegetation and provide a safer training environment for service members by clearing out a section of JBSA-Camp Bullis from an invasive plant species and cedar debris... MORE

Work crews made up of members of the 802nd Civil Engineer Squadron, Joint Base San Antonio Natural Resources Office, Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute and the JBSA Wildland Support Module burned golden bamboo and cedar mulch

JBSA joint, Total Forces practice sling loading skills
December 30, 2020 — A joint Total Force team led by the 74th Aerial Port Squadron peers into a darkened landscape masked by a moonless evening sky in preparation for an ambitious helicopter sling load mission dubbed “Operation Nightstorm.”  ... MORE

U.S. Air Force Reserve Component Airmen assigned to the 74th Aerial Port Squadron, Texas Army National Guard Soldiers from the 2nd Company, 149st Aviation Regiment and 108th Aviation Regiment, and active-duty members from the Air Force Special Warfare Training Support Squadron participate in a helicopter rigging mission, Dec. 15, 2020, at Joint Base San Antonio-Chapman Annex, Texas.

New MEDCoE Combat Paramedic Program class graduates
August 14, 2020 — Overcoming challenges brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, or COVID-19, the U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence, or MEDCoE, at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston has graduated its first class from a new paramedic training program that started in January... MORE

Soldier/medic works with an IV bag in the field.

Trinity Competition selects best of MEDCoE
July 21, 2020 — Each year, the U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence, or MEDCoE, plans, coordinates, and executes the Trinity Competition at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston and JBSA-Camp Bullis to select the best medic, best warrior, and drill sergeant of the year... MORE

Sgt. 1st Class Jeremy Shepler, Headquarters Medical Professional Training Brigade, prepares to administer intravenous fluids to a simulated casualty on the Best Medic lane.