Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Dr. Sherman Robinson

2011-12-10 00:00:00

Dr. Sherman Samuel Robinson, a retired pediatrician who had been the athletics physician for Severna Park High School, died of cancer Monday at his Edgewater home. He was 79. Born in Pittsfield, Mass., and raised on Staten Island, N.Y., he earned a...

3 teens killed in crash were recent high school grads

2012-01-29 18:21:00

The three recent high school graduates, in a Chrysler Sebring sedan, were coming home from a birthday party. The 55-year-old warehouse manager, driving a black BMW convertible, was returning from dinner and cards at a friend's house. Their vehicles...

BRAC brings fundraiser ball to Aberdeen

2011-06-25 07:16:00

A dance under a circus-sized tent at Aberdeen Proving Ground has raised more than $300,000 for a network of houses that offer free lodging to the families of wounded warriors. The first Support Our Heroes Ball held in Maryland drew more than 500 guests,...

Fort Hood massacre shows how political correctness can kill

2009-11-13 00:00:00

The massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, last week has shined a harsh, unremitting light on the hold that "political correctness" has on the American military. There is an eruption of commentary on the appalling results of ignoring disturbing things so as not to...

Army medicine: Untested in battle

2009-03-29 00:00:00

The U.S. Army has quietly altered or abandoned some of its more experimental medical treatments for troops injured in combat, as advances it once hailed as groundbreaking are foundlargely ineffective or perhaps even dangerous. Advanced battle dressings,...

Md. stands to gain 6,600 jobs

2005-05-14 00:00:00

Maryland would gain more than 6,600 jobs - more than all but one other state - as jobs throughout the country are sent here under a vast restructuring of the nation's military bases proposed yesterday by the Pentagon. The state's big bases would get...

Panel votes to move Walter Reed to Bethesda

2005-08-26 00:00:00

A federal commission voted yesterday to move Washington's historic Walter Reed Army Medical Center and nearly 1,900 jobs to Bethesda, part of a sweeping military realignment that would expand a national center for medical treatment and research in...

Vote on bases likely today

2005-08-24 00:00:00

Maryland will learn over the next four days whether four years of lobbying to bring thousands of high-paying defense jobs to the state have paid off. And the most crucial day is likely to be today, when the federal commission that controls the fate of...

Leaders fight plan to close nearby military installations

2005-07-08 00:00:00

WASHINGTON - Appearing before stern-faced members of the panel that will decide the fate of thousands of American jobs this year, Washington leaders asked them yesterday to reject plans to close military installations in the nation's capital - most...

Some call for about-face of military shuffle plan

2005-05-14 00:00:00

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon unveiled a sweeping plan to reorganize America's armed forces yesterday, a proposal that would close 33 major defense installations, shuffle more than 218,000 military and civilian jobs around the country and reach deep into...

Hospital gets marching orders

2005-05-14 00:00:00

WASHINGTON - For nearly a century, Walter Reed Army hospital has been a sanctuary for soldiers returning from battle, but yesterday the nation's flagship military hospital was itself the target as the Pentagon proposed closing its doors. The medical...

Nurse killed in Iraq remembered

2007-07-19 00:00:00

An Army nurse who spent 16 years tending to soldiers and volunteered to serve in Iraq was remembered for her infectious smile and self-sacrifice in a memorial ceremony yesterday at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Family members, friends and colleagues filled...

President Barack Obama signs the prosthetic arm of Sgt. Carlos Evans, USMC, after greeting wounded warriors in the East Room during their tour of the White House, March 6, 2012.

2012-04-09 00:00:00

Hotelier Harris Rosen, a U.S. Army veteran, has supported many military organizations. In 2010, he visited wounded warriors at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

2012-01-06 15:38:04

Army Spc. Tamarra J. Ramos, 24, of Haycock Township died at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. While serving in Egypt in support of U.S. efforts in Iraq, she was diagnosed with cancer . She was assigned to the 3rd Armor Medical Company, Medical Troop Regimental Support Squadron,

2011-12-16 00:00:00