National staff, volunteers to meet with Fort Sam Houston leadership, soldiers during Base Assessment and Servicemember Experience visit.
American Legion national staff and volunteers will visit Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston in Texas this month as part of the Legion’s Base Assessment and Servicemember Experience (BASE) program.
The BASE program was created in 2022 to address quality-of-life matters that affect servicemembers and their families. Modeled after the longstanding American Legion System Worth Saving program, the mission of BASE is to work with the Department of Defense to identify strategies that will ensure a strong quality of life for servicemembers and their families.
Through BASE, the Legion works with DoD and local base leadership to conduct visits around the world. During these visits, Legion staff and volunteers engage servicemembers, families and base personnel to gather their perspectives, and then work afterward to develop solutions to any issues presented during the visit. The findings of these visits are used to improve the quality of life for servicemembers at the reviewed base and elsewhere.
In San Antonio, American Legion representatives will meet with base leadership, as well as conduct a town hall on Feb. 11 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at JBSA-Fort Sam Houston’s Military Family Readiness Center (MFRC). Servicemembers and military family members are urged to attend and voice their concerns regarding quality-of-life issues that include housing, medical care, childcare, dining facilities and base support programs. The townhall also serves as an opportunity to learn about and share best practices for base quality-of-life areas that are going well.
The American Legion previously has conducted BASE visits in 2023 at Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Ariz., and at Shaw Air Force Base in 2024. And in 2025, American Legion national staff and volunteers participated in a multi-state, seven-base tour of military installations coordinated by Rep. Uifa’atali Amata Radewagen, who represents American Samoa. The trip included four town halls at posts near military bases in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
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