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Algernon Moncrieff

(5,790 posts) Sun Nov 17, 2019, 04:25 AM Nov 2019

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Question: Why Walter Reed?

I thought the feds were closing Walter Reed, and that Bethesda Naval Hospital was where Presidents got their medicine on? I obviously missed something.

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Question: Why Walter Reed? (Original Post) Algernon Moncrieff Nov 2019 OP

They're the same place. Just called different names. Garrett78 Nov 2019 #1

Thanks - and thanks Jane Q Public Algernon Moncrieff Nov 2019 #4

Proximity, in a potential emergency situation ... would be one possible explanation ... mr_lebowski Nov 2019 #2

The old WR did close. JaneQPublic Nov 2019 #3

Garrett78

(10,721 posts)

1. They're the same place. Just called different names.

Reply to Algernon Moncrieff (Original post)

Sun Nov 17, 2019, 04:28 AM

Nov 2019

Algernon Moncrieff

(5,790 posts)

4. Thanks - and thanks Jane Q Public

Reply to Garrett78 (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 17, 2019, 04:35 AM

Nov 2019

I didn't realize there had been a merger. Now it makes more sense.

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)

2. Proximity, in a potential emergency situation ... would be one possible explanation ...

Reply to Algernon Moncrieff (Original post)

Sun Nov 17, 2019, 04:29 AM

Nov 2019

I don't know if he was closer to one or the other, just throwin' it out there ...

Edit: Or what Garrett said lol ...

JaneQPublic

(7,113 posts)

3. The old WR did close.

Reply to Algernon Moncrieff (Original post)

Sun Nov 17, 2019, 04:33 AM

Nov 2019

The facility in DC closed, and then WR services moved out to Bethesda with the Naval hospital.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Reed_National_Military_Medical_Center

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