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The Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center is a United States Department of Defense medical facility located on Fort Belvoir, Virginia, outside of Washington D.C. In conjunction with Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the hospital provides the Military Health System medical capabilities of the National Capital Region Medical Directorate (NCR MD), a joint unit providing ...
The end result for the combined projects at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and Fort Belvoir Community Hospital was $2.8 billion in construction and outfitting of more than 3,000,000 square feet (280,000 m 2) of new and renovated medical and administrative space; consolidation of more than 4,400 civilian personnel; relocation ...
On 31 July 1975, the 15th Combat Support Hospital was alerted for deployment to Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania for the purpose of operating the Medical Treatment Facility, Task Force New Arrivals, providing comprehensive medical care to Indochinese refugees and task force personnel, both military and civilian.
DeWitt Army Community Hospital, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. (2011) Named for Colonel Ogden Dewitt, former Chief of Surgery, Walter Reed General Hospital. Army-Navy Hospital Hot Springs, Arkansas (1952) Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, Aurora, Colorado, 1999; Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in 1989. Frankfurt Army Regional Medical Center (1995)
The Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC), officially known as Walter Reed General Hospital (WRGH) until 1951, was the U.S. Army's flagship medical center from 1909 to 2011. Located on 113 acres (46 ha) in Washington, D.C. , it served more than 150,000 active and retired personnel from all branches of the United States Armed Forces .
There are four major medical centers located within the United States that are operated by the Navy. East Coast commands include the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, located in Virginia, Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune, located in North Carolina, and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, formally known as the National Naval Medical Center and colloquially referred to as the ...
This change established the National Naval Medical Center Region and placed all U.S. Navy health care facilities under the authority of the medical center's commanding officer. New inpatient buildings and the Naval Medical Center were consolidated on September 1, 1973, forming the National Naval Medical Center.
The blue background, symbolizing sky and space, represents the limitlessness of DOD recovery operations worldwide. [citation needed]The red, white and blue border represents the physical and mental anguish of past warfighters in their loss of freedom or life; and valor of each service in pursuit of its personnel recovery mission.