Relocated USAF medical school opens Monday

KETTERING — The U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine begins offering classes Monday, marking another in a series of shifts relocating major military programs to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base by 2011.

The classes will take place in a temporary site at Kettering Business Park, 1050 Forrer Blvd., home of the former Gentile Air Force Station that housed the Defense Electronics Supply Center.

The School of Aerospace Medicine is moving from Brooks-City Base in San Antonio, Texas, under terms of the nation’s 2005 base realignment and closure (BRAC) decisions to bring aerospace medicine and sensors programs to WPAFB by September.

The classes will meet in Kettering until new facilities are ready in mid-2011 at Wright-Patt in Area B.

The school is the branch’s premier organization for aerospace medical research, education and worldwide operational consultation. It is part of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing.