Soldiers Face Neglect, Frustration At Army's Top Medical Facility

[GreatAmerican]

<p>Published in the Washington Compost:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/05/AR2007030500676.html[/url]”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/05/AR2007030500676.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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Senior Army commanders today apologized for failures that forced some wounded outpatient soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center to live in substandard conditions and wage lengthy bureaucratic battles over their treatment, and they vowed to improve a system that they said had been overwhelmed by the numbers of wounded combatants and the complexity of their injuries.</p>

<p>Appearing at a House subcommittee hearing held in an auditorium at Walter Reed, the generals spoke after listening to emotional testimony from two wounded soldiers and the wife of a third about their struggles at the Washington, D.C., hospital complex…

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