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Sources: Army drawdown could lead to closure of two-star medical headquarters at JBLM Read more her
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2014/09/23/3395134/sources-army-drawdown-could-lead.html?sp=/99/296/331/354/Sources: Army drawdown could lead to closure of two-star medical headquarters at JBLM
By Adam Ashton
Staff writer
September 23, 2014
A medical headquarters built at Joint Base Lewis-McChord during years of heavy fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan could close as the Army continues a postwar drawdown, according to documents obtained by The News Tribune.
The proposal to close the Western Regional Medical Command, which employs about 200 people at JBLM, is intended to give the Army fewer medical headquarters, according to sources familiar with the plan.
It could happen as soon as 2016, they said.
It follows the Defense Department’s plan to shrink the size of the active-duty Army from its recent peak of 562,000 soldiers in 2011 to a force of fewer than 450,000. JBLM has already lost about 5,000 soldiers to that drawdown.
