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

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The House Appropriations Committee is expected to vote Thursday to keep open Walter Reed Army Medical Center for the duration of the global war on terrorism, a move that would reverse a 2005 base-closing commission recommendation and add one more reason for the Bush administration to oppose a wartime supplemental spending bill.</p>

<p>Walter Reed, the Army?s flagship hospital, is slated to shut down by 2011 under the recommendations of the 2005 Base Closure and Realignment Commission. It would be replaced by an expanded national military hospital in Bethesda, Md., on the current campus of the National Naval Medical Center, and by a new regional medical center to be built at Fort Belvoir, Va…

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