The Defense Department is relocating about 5,200 METC students at Joint Base San Antonio–Fort Sam Houston due to climate-control failures and foundational defects in the dormitories, moving them to on-base hotels as a long-term recapitalization plan unfolds. The Pentagon is funding construction to replace the barracks, with demolitions of five buildings planned and a long-term project that could cost over a billion dollars, targeting start by year-end.
