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You'll have to forgive my skepticism but in my opinion, this is 95% bunk. I don't know about the Air Force, Marine or Navy bases but I know from experience that Ft. Polk (the Joint Readiness Training Center), Ft. Sam Houston (where all the medics come from) Ft. Monroe (USAMRID and Germ Warfare Center) just to name 3 are all vital instalations.

Look at the logic:
Ft Polk - The JRTC remains, but with a fully devoted (maybe contract) OPFOR instead of a make-do use of the 2nd ACR.
Ft Sam Houston - This is a so what. Use the facilities at Walter Reed and Bethesda to train the medics. Always made sense to me. Where do the wounded from Iraq go? Walter Reed - it just makes sense.
Ft Monroe - Sorry you are all wet here. Ft Monroe is the home of TRADOC and that is about it. Turn it over to the National Park Service for the historical value.

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Umm...what's with the attitude? In what have a given offence? Be nice.

For one thing, if they close Ft. Polk, JRTC goes 'bye-bye'. A "make-do" OPFOR? Sorry but those guys do an awesome job. Unless I'm mistaken we train doctors and nurses at hospitals like Walter Reed and Bathesda (which is Navy by the way) not combat medics. You might as well train infantrymen at a police academy! They're two different things altogether!

USAMRIID is in Ft Detrick (MD), I made a mistake be about 30 miles.

My point is if it ain't broke don't fix it!