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...Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., where he was studying medicine tuition-free, a benefit of his enlistment in the Army. The prescription, as a photograph shows, appears to have been filled by Wilford Hall Medical Center at the U.S. Air Force Base in Lackland, Texas. (See pictures of Nidal Malik Hasan's life...
...Hours after the attacks, authorities picked up Dr. Al-Hazmi. He had been finishing the last year of his medical residency in radiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio but didn't show up for work on Sept. 11 at a military hospital on Lackland Air Force Base. Sources close to the investigation say Al-Hazmi's credit card was used by two of the hijackers to buy their plane tickets, possibly without his knowledge. Additionally, the doctor reportedly bought a plane ticket for Sept. 22 and a return ticket a month later, though...
Perhaps coincidentally, two men with names identical to those of two hijackers had lived or studied at Lackland Air Force Base. Pentagon sources confirmed that a man named Saeed Alghamdi graduated from the Defense Language Institute at Lackland, and that both Saeed and Ahmed Alghamdi appeared on a list for foreign military housing. (Men with the same names as other hijackers turned up at other bases in the south.) Whether the hijackers stole the identities of these men is as yet unknown...
...applied to spend part of the summer at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas to train with other pre-med ROTC students...
After a student's sophomore year, they spend the summer at Lackland undergoing "basic training for officer candidates," Gunn says...