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Walter Reed; the happiest place on earth

| July 28, 2012 | 21 Comments
Walter Reed; the happiest place on earth

As most of you know, I spent the last four days in the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda and it was a great time, well, as great as it could be. For those of you who don’t know, my left foot quit working the way it’s supposed to almost two years ago. […]

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Walter Reed’s last days

| July 28, 2011 | 4 Comments
Walter Reed’s last days

As you may know, Walter Reed was a casualty of the latest round of BRAC realignments of military facilities worldwide and the 102-year-old hospital and research center is being relocated to Bethesda to co-locate with the Naval Hospital while part of Walter reed will move to Fort Belvoir, VA. The Stars & Stripes/McClatchy says; Over […]

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Free Republic’s “Last Stand” at Walter Reed

| July 18, 2011 | 1 Comment
Free Republic’s “Last Stand” at Walter Reed

We got an email last night from Trooprally, the Free Republic’s main instigator of the more than 6 years-long rally outside of Walter Reed on Friday nights when the wounded arrive from the Was Against Terror. They began their vigil when Code pink and the union thugs started protesting the wars at Walter Reed front […]

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WRAMC CSM busted for stolen valor *Bumped*

| July 26, 2010 | 34 Comments
WRAMC CSM busted for stolen valor *Bumped*

According to CNN, a Sergeant Major has been busted at Walter Reed. CNN calls Stoney Crump THE Command Sergeant Major of WRAMC, but that’s not true – he’s one of the CSMs. Among the courses he is alleged to have attended were Reconnaissance School, Sniper School,; Drill Sergeant Course,; U.S. Army Ranger School and several […]

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Short memories

| April 24, 2010 | 6 Comments
Short memories

A diarist at VetVoices who calls himself HalDonahue is on a tear about Walter Reed’s upcoming move to two new facilities at Bethesda, MD and Fort Belvoir, VA. HalDonahue claims that the move denies world class care to the troops at a crucial timein the war against terror; The Base Realignment And Closure (BRAC) is […]

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The Real Deal

| February 6, 2010 | 15 Comments
The Real Deal

The milblog community just exposed and destroyed another phony. Jonn, TSO, and everybody else involved should be proud and definitely deserve more credit (which was pretty much none) than they got in the local Houston media. I think its appropriate that after spending a lot of time talking about a phony hero that some time […]

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At Walter Reed next Friday

| September 3, 2009 | 10 Comments
At Walter Reed next Friday

Some of you live here in Metro DC area and I know some of you plan to be here for next week’s doin’s (Concretebob estimates the crowd arriving by bus at about a 1/4 million folks). I hear that Bev Perlson of Band of Mothers will be outside of the Congressional offices (Cannon Building, last […]

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Barbecuein’ and cigar smoking at WRAMC

| August 16, 2009 | 12 Comments
Barbecuein’ and cigar smoking at WRAMC

Concretebob and Gunn Nutt put together a great barbeque for the troops at Walter Reed Army Medical Center yesterday. I was lucky enough to get an invitation – but I was so lazy, that my designated driver took the pictures for me. There was a live band and tons of chow. Thanks for inviting us, […]

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