Bye, bye Walter Reed

Commission Votes to Close Walter Reed Army Medical Center

A federal panel voted Thursday to close the District's historic Walter Reed Army Medical Center and to move 9,000 military and civilian defense jobs from Arlington and Alexandria to military bases outside the Beltway despite concerns about the traffic problems such a move could cause.

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The Pentagon had proposed closing Walter Reed and expanding the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda into a new facility called the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, keeping the well-known name. The District would lose 5,630 jobs in the move.

DC residents, call your Senators at 202-224-3121 and get them to save Walter Reed and local jobs!