[CPEO-IRF] Walter Reed (DC) to Bethesda (MD)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

BRAC Fallout: Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Defense Industry Daily
February 1, 2007

DID has covered the USA's Base Realignment and Closure process before, a 
fairly unique effort whereby a commission draws up a list of bases to be 
closed, and the Congress must vote yes or no to the entire list. The 
result is that it becomes much harder (but not impossible) for 
Congressmen to protect each base, and easier to create a basing system 
whose priorities are shifted toward military rather than political needs.

The 2005 BRAC Commission's recommendation to realign and consolidate 
facilities in the USA's National Capital Region, in order to meet the 
medical and security needs of the 21st century, includes the realignment 
of all tertiary medical services currently located at Walter Reed Army 
Medical Center in Washington, DC to the National Naval Medical Center in 
Bethesda, MD. The new joint operational medical facility will be named 
the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and will be staffed by 
personnel from the Navy, Army and Air Force. The existing Walter Reed 
main installation is mandated to close by 2011 according to the BRAC law.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/2007/02/brac-fallout-walter-reed-national-military-medical-center/index.php

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Lenny Siegel
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