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Walter Reed Army Medical Center
For Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the bad news just keeps coming.
The night before he was to enter a drug and alcohol rehabilitation program, Army Pfc. Chris Eckert swallowed a pill prescribed to help him sleep without the nightmares that have tormented him since he left Iraq. By Kelly Kennedy - Staff writerPosted : Friday Mar 21, 2008 18:38:27 EDT http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/03/military_methadone_032108w/ Then, sitting in his barracks at Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Jan. 17, he counted out seven methadone tablets and popped them into his...
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I was going to post today on a way to support the troops this Holiday Season . A retired Airforce friend of mine brought me over an address to Walter Reed Army Medical Center and suggested I post how folk could send Christmas cards and letters to the wounded Soldiers.......I thought it sounded like a great idea till I went to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center website and read that they do NOT accept these letters and cards . This is from the site : "Walter Reed Army Medical Center officials...
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As if it's not bad enough, this mess that George Bush has gotten us into, it's even more pathetic (if that's possible) how Bush's victims are being treated once they've returned. And you can't tell me that the top dogs did not know what was going on. As typical with this administration, action is only taken when they can no longer deny the truth, or continue to hide atrocities from the public. Here's what (the great) Ted Rall had to say about the Walter Reed situation: "Americans were...
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Walter Reed is National Army Medical Center on the east coast that takes care of soldiers. This is just awful what is actually going on with this military hospital with ceiling, walls caving in plus with rats and mice running around. It is not a very sanitary place for injured people to be at, along with not getting proper health care. It made me cry hearing all this. I read stories of what some of soldiers went through at this hospital it is just awful. Everyone keeps saying how could no...
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Amid the growing scandal that has become Walter Reed Army Hospital for the Neglected, Lt. Gen. Kevin Kiley, the hospital's receptionist, insisted that the facility was undergoing renovations even while his ouster was a certainty. "We just opened a new surgical wing," gloated the General, while packing his bags. "It was an outdoor setting, you know, to save on electricity. We had a budget to maintain." At a Senate hearing last week, Kiley said he was aware of care issues at...
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WASHINGTON -- When he was told that some in the Army were dismissive of press reports on the mistreatment of patients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, according to one witness, grew "very, very quiet." Within two weeks, the Walter Reed commander was out of a...
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AOA Seeks to Aid America's Wounded Warriors Facing Combat-Related Eye Trauma and Vision Damage Associated with Traumatic Brain Injury WASHINGTON, May 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Eye wounds and combat-related ...
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You can view two live video streams from Poynter today about The Washington Post 's investigation into mistreatment of veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center : "Inside the Walter Reed Investigation," 1:30 ...
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A bill that has emerged from a House committee would halt the construction of replacement hospitals for the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
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Players from the reigning Super Bowl champion New York Giants football team joined President Bush on the South Lawn of the White House Wednesday to honor patients from Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
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Walter Reed Army Medical Center today honored its 4,000-person team during Staff Appreciation Day, highlighting efforts over the past 14 months to improve wounded warrior care and cut delays in disability ...
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NEW YORK Dana Priest and Anne Hull will receive yet another prize for their investigation of outrageous conditions faced by veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
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A bill that has emerged from a House committee would halt the construction of replacement hospitals for the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
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A planned hospital at Fort Belvoir would be part of the base relocation program to replace Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
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Tom Webster, project officer for Navy Medicine Support Command's Visual Information Directorate, audiovisual production specialist Emre Tufekcioglu and Walter Reed Army's Medical Center's Rodney Remson film at ...
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