Talk to me about Walter Reed.....

Walter Reed will be closed by then. The 2 military hospitals in the area will be Ft. Belvoir & Bethesa. Bethesa will be a joint Army & Navy hospital vs a Naval Hospital as it is now.

I believe that in 2014 you would be able to from what I understand, I could be wrong thou. There is a total of 8 Army Medical centers that new grads can list. Off the top of my head I could not tell you all of them, but one of them is Magidan at Ft. Lewis WA.

According to my "Army Health Care Team, New Officer's Overview" book, the top 8 are/where

WBAMC- Ft. Bliss, TX
BAMC- Ft Sam Houston, TX
Eisenhower- Ft Gordon, TX
Landstuhl- Germany
Womack- Ft Bragg, NC
Walter Reed- DC
Madigan- Ft Lewis, Wash
Tripler- Hawaii

Fort Gordon is in Georgia

Ft Gordon, GA( sorry that was an accident)

lol.....actually Bethesda will be a true tri-service hospital with some continued training with the USPHS. So Bethesda is going to have AF, Army and Navy all assigned there.

http://www.bethesda.med.navy.mil/Visitor/Lodging/#house (NNMC housing information)

Most officers live off base using their basic allowance for housing. Here is the link for BAH. http://www.defensetravel.dod.mil/perdiem/bah.html BAH is tax free, but this area of the country is pretty much one of the most expensive to live in. Most people stationed here will drive an hour or more just to get a decent affordable house, because this area is so expensive. I definitively wouldn't pick this area unless you just like the DC area, the traffic sucks (2nd worst in the nation behind LA). http://dc.about.com/od/communities/a/LivinginDC.htm

Not to mention the parking at Bethesda is going to be ridiculous!!!! They have built several new buildings with very little thought to how much traffic is actually going to increase when WRAMC and NNMC combine.