Speaking of Walter Reed Med Center - These confusing plans w/create lots of rich contracts...

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This multi-million dollar project is temporary?
AND was delayed by Rummy's games with the base closings?

New Amputee Center to Open
Associated Press |
January 17, 2006

WASHINGTON - Construction is expected to begin this spring on a state-of-the-art rehabilitation facility for amputee Soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center even though the venerable military hospital is scheduled to close in five years.

The $10 million Military Amputee Training Center - originally expected to open last month - was caught in limbo during the Pentagon's base closing process. Ground was broken in 2004, but construction had not yet begun last May when the Army ordered a hold on all projects that could be affected by the Base Closure and Realignment Commission.

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Walter Reed officials still expect the 30,000-square-foot addition to the military hospital to include a running track, a climbing and rappelling wall and a virtual-reality center, as well as a military vehicle simulator to help some Soldiers return to the battlefield. It will combine both new and existing counseling, occupational and physical therapy services for amputees.

But the amputee center is now considered temporary, to serve Soldiers for only five to seven years due to the BRAC decision, according to the Army Corps of Engineers.

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Walter Reed is supposed to move to an expanded suburban military hospital in 2011, under the BRAC recommendations President Bush signed last year.

"The transitional center is necessary to provide the best possible care for our amputee patients in the five years between now and 2011, when Walter Reed is scheduled to move to Bethesda (Md.) and merge some functions with the National Naval Medical Center," Walter Reed officials said in a statement.

more:
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,85527,00.html

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1. Wow. Hello... Hello... Hello...... Is anybody out there?..................