Digital subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for unlimited access to Texas Monthly. Already a subscriber? Log in. The wounded soldier was lying in the middle of a clearing, but in the dark of the moonless night, Richard King almost tripped over him. “Here,” he yelled to his squad as they followed in a low run, their movements intermittently illuminated by the flash of artillery fire. It was almost midnight, but the August heat clung to the cedar-covered hills at Camp Bullis, north of San Antonio, and King was already sweating.The soldier’s right thigh was a sticky mess, so King applied a dressing and cinched a tourniquet high on his leg. Even though he knew the blood and the audible machine gun blasts were fake,…The post A San Antonio Military Base Faces an Existential Threat—Light Pollution appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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