The Brooks Discovery is in the San Antonio, TX DMA. It is a military newspaper serving the Brooks Air Force Base. It is distributed via racks on alternating Fridays. A buy in the Brooks City-Base Discovery also includes the Medical Patriot. The Medical Patriot is in the San Antonio, TX DMA. It serves the Brooks Army Medical Center, Wilford Hall and the University of Texas Health Science Center. It is distributed via racks on Thursdays. Known in the Air Force community as "The Knowledge Base", Brooks Air Force Base is a base that has had to redefine itself. Today it is the home of the human systems center, the single Air Force agency dedicated to solving human challenges in Air Force systems and operations. It is responsible for research, development and acquisition of all products related to the "human factor" in Air Force operations. The base employs 3,212 military and civilian personnel and has a combined revenue of $162,441,000. Brooks is the Air Force Center for aeromedical education, training and consultation in direct support of Air Force, Department of Defense and allied nations' aerospace operations. Through its reinvention of itself, Brooks has also come to specialize in "force protection - centered on aerospace medicine." It provides peacetime contingency support in the areas of hyperbarics, human performance enhancement, dental investigations, environmental quality, aeromedical evacuation training, and public health and preventative medicine. Brooks trains over 7,000 students annually, maximizing $171 million in educational assets. The Brooks Discovery offers ROP and insert advertising opportunities in its daily circulation. Echo Media has direct relationships with over 7,500 newspapers providing tremendous local coverage.