Fox News: Base-Closing Panel Decides to Shut Walter Reed

Nitrogenica

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Sun Mar-04-07 10:25 PM
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Fox News: Base-Closing Panel Decides to Shut Walter Reed

(from 2005)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166704,00.html

"The federal Base Realignment and Closure Commission has recommended to close the world-renowned Walter Reed Army Medical Center outside Washington, D.C. as part of the Pentagon's plan to restructure military bases across the country"

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Monkeyman

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Sun Mar-04-07 10:26 PM
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1. Yep they sure did now replugs are using that as a excuse

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Kolesar

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Sun Mar-04-07 10:31 PM
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2. DoD was not doing improvements because they knew the hospital would be closed

They would keep the Navy's Bethesda Medical Center.

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Kelly Rupert

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Sun Mar-04-07 10:34 PM
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4. More accurately, they're combining the two n/t

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Kolesar

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Sun Mar-04-07 10:37 PM
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5. Would some of Walter-Reed have been kept open?

In that case, the outpatient housing should have been upgraded.

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Kelly Rupert

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Sun Mar-04-07 10:43 PM
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6. The combined center would be moved to the Bethesda campus,

so none of the WR buildings will be used, no. However, that isn't any excuse. If there are going to be patients in buildings, than the buildings should be up to par.

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Kolesar

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Mon Mar-05-07 06:25 AM
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10. Pre WW2 buildings

In my opinion, the troops are just a prop for bush and the republ'ans to hide behind. Somebody just pulled their prop away.

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rurallib

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Sun Mar-04-07 10:32 PM
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3. Timing is everything

Edited on Sun Mar-04-07 10:32 PM by rurallib

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Initech

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Sun Mar-04-07 10:47 PM
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7. If you can't fix it... get rid of it.

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The_Casual_Observer

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Sun Mar-04-07 10:57 PM
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8. Nice way to handle a total disgrace. Then tell me why all those people

need to get fired if this was planned all along??

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catnhatnh

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Sun Mar-04-07 11:53 PM
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9. I said it another thread and I'll say it here....

they have been decommissioning the F-15 squadrons for the last several years-Did they make the pilots fly them with vermin in the cockpits and holes thru the wings??? Well then....

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