Walter Reed Army Medical Center News Archives

How's that golf game going? Maybe you should give Bush a call on how to run a war.

Gordon Sullivan, a retired four-star general and former Army chief of staff, spoke at an awards dinner Wednesday night to praise the Armya s advancement in patient care and medical record keeping.

Prosecutors use DNA evidence and security camera footage to make their case. Thursday, October 29, 2009 Every morning, a black sedan picks up the chief of naval operations at his home and drives him to his office at the Pentagon.

A Medford woman critically ill with swine flu was en route by ambulance late Wednesday evening from a Medford hospital to Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in Portland to be placed on a special life-saving oxygenation machine.

With a pair of meetings Thursday, D.C. officials began at least a year's worth of planning for 62 acres of Walter Reed Army Medical Center slated to become available thanks to the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure process.

A program called "First Swing" is getting amputee veterans out on the golf course.

The American Red Cross again will sponsor a national 'Holiday Mail for Heroes' campaign to receive and distribute holiday cards to servicemembers, veterans and their families in the United States and abroad.

A former Michigan soldier who lost his hand after an explosion while trying to disarm a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2004 won a $4.3 million verdict today against the U.S. Army in a disability discrimination civil case.

David Flowers lost a leg and severely damaged another serving in Afghanistan. Richard Hoskins lost his leg during a tour in Iraq.

Mayor Adrian Fenty is quickly drafting plans to redevelop part of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center campus when the hospital moves to the National Naval Medical Center in Maryland.

Imagine signing up to serve your country, fulfilling a desire to preserve freedom and protect those things you hold most dear.

A group of eight wounded warriors have returned to the combat zone in Iraq where they were injured, to find a sense of closure.

A A A Private First Class Stephen Marcum was seriously injured by an improvised explosive device on Friday near the city of Kandahar.A Marcum had wounds to his legs, arms, face and head and for a time was on a respirator.A A A A The Lebanon man underwent surgery on Saturday so he could be transported to Germany.

A communitya s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic.

Dozens of people watched in silence as six New Mexico National Guard pallbearers carried the casket of fallen US Army Sgt.

Tops Markets will receive the 2009 Retail Patriot Award from Frozen and Dairy Buyer magazine at a convention this weekend.

On "Washington Unplugged" Thursday, Former Senator Max Cleland of Georgia, who lost both legs and an arm in Vietnam, discussed how losing his Senate reelection campaign to Saxby Chambliss in 2002 reignited the post traumatic stress disorder first triggered by his experience in war.

Friends and relatives gathered at the North Buckhannon Riverfront Park Tuesday afternoon, anxiously awaiting the arrival of Sergeant Ronald Frye, Jr.

CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports it's subsidized by millions of your tax dollars annually.

Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr. has ordered flags on the reservation to be flown at half-staff from Wednesday to Saturday to honor a fallen soldier from New Mexico.

An Army sergeant from Medford critically wounded in Afghanistan last month has been sent to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The Mail Tribune newspaper reports that 43-year-old Tom Rollason was transferred Sunday night from Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany.

Former Air Force K9 handler Jamie Mangan adopted Rex, her bomb-sniffing dog, after they returned home from Iraq.

The military says a former Fort Carson soldier whose family lives in Colorado has died from injuries he suffered in combat in Afghanistan.

Homecoming at Alderson Broaddus College took on a special meaning this year for a local graduate.

The family told the newspaper that Hughes' unit had returned from patrol and was relaxing in a safe zone.

An ambush in a remote part of eastern Afghanistan that raised questions about the whether U.S. troops had enough artillery, air support and intelligence has claimed a fifth U.S. service member.

Thousands of workers will be out of a job when Walter Reed Army Medical Center closes next year.

A Fresno woman who comforts military families is now dealing with her own son's injuries suffered in Afghanistan.

Hundreds packed the chapel: generals and privates, officers and enlisted, relatives and fellow soldiers.

On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote on legislation that would grant federal protection to journalists and, more importantly, their anonymous sources.

A Fresno staff sergeant is in surgery right now at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, following an attack in Afghanistan last Friday.

General David Petraeus says he has prostate cancer. In a statement released Monday night the head of the United States Central Command said he underwent two months of successful radiation treatment earlier this year at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

For the three subjects of the documentary film a oe The Way We Get By ,a it would have been hard to top the events of last Wednesday and Thursday.

Too few women - and men - are aware of the warning signs, symptoms, prevention and detection methods for gynecologic cancer, an Army surgeon says.

By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service Oct. 2, 2009 - Minutes after the hulking C-17 transport jet rolled to a stop on the tarmac here Sept.