The single largest expenditure is for the replacement building to house the ambulatory...
Trainees at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland walk back to their dorms while carrying the dress blues they were issued on Feb. 25, 2021.SAN ANTONIO — Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland will get $5.4 million in federal funding to upgrade dormitories on the sprawling training base that, in some cases over the years, were plagued by mold and bats.
Rep. Joaquin Castro said Congress the money is part of the latest National Defense Authorization Act, which included $58.6 million for a building to replace an ambulatory care dental center and $29 million for a child development care center at JBSA-Randolph.“This year’s NDAA includes a well-deserved military pay raise and new investments in on-base services for military families to improve their lives and strengthen troop retention,” Castro, D-San Antonio, said in a statement.
Nothing was known about the $5.4 million pegged for work on recruit dorms at Lackland, but it isn’t enough for a new Airman Training Complex, a massive $900-plus million structure that is intended to replace the Vietnam-era Recruit Housing and Training facilities that dot the base — and are still in use.
Some of those buildings have caused problems for the 502nd Air Base Wing, the organization charged with maintaining structures and providing logistical support for San Antonio’s three major installations and the Camp Bullis training range, part of the joint base — the nation’s largest. The wing is also known as Joint Base San Antonio.
In 2019, complaints of black mold in dormitories at one installation prompted commanders to tear out carpet, replace furniture and sanitize rooms. An Air Force generalBack in 2014, Lackland battled a colony of 500 to 600 bats that led to medical officials vaccinating more than 200 recruits after the creatures were seen in a dorm complex. The bats were in four living areas of a 45-year-old recruit residential complex that contained 20 dormitories and 900 trainees.
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