Forest Glen Annex

The Forest Glen Annex is a 136-acre (0.55 km²) U.S. Army installation in the Forest Glen neighborhood of Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. It is situated between Brookville Road and Linden Lane. Since 1999, the Annex has been the site of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) and the Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC), along with smaller units. In addition to the large research laboratories located in the Annex’s "Daniel K. Inouye Building" (Building 503), the post includes a commissary, a child care center, and a Fisher House. There are also football and baseball fields, and picnicing facilities. In 2011, in accordance with the most recent Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) recommendations, the Forest Glen Annex became home to the National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM) as well as a "Joint Center of Excellence in Infectious Disease Research." The former post exchange was repurposed as office space and a new Navy Exchange department store (NEX) was completed in 2012 at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC) in nearby Bethesda.^[1]

The Forest Glen property was acquired by the Army during the World War II era. Formerly known as the “Walter Reed Forest Glen Annex”, after many decades as a tenant of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) in Washington, DC, authority over the facility was transferred on 1 October 2008 to the Installation Commander, Fort Detrick, Maryland.^[2]

The Forest Glen Annex campus includes the 27-acre (110,000 m²) National Park Seminary Historic District which is being redeveloped separately from the military area. The associated Glen Haven housing area in nearby Wheaton, also now owned by Fort Detrick, has 240 quarters for enlisted soldiers and for officers in grades O-1 through O-3.

History

The land on which the Forest Glen Annex now stands was originally part of a huge tract belonging to the influential Carroll family of colonial times, which lived nearby. During the Civil War, the land was owned by Alfred Ray, a southern sympathizer. In July 1864, Ray allowed the troops of Confederate General Jubal Early to encamp on his land, before sallying down nearby Brookville Road for an unsuccessful raid on Washington, D.C., which ended in the Battle of Fort Stevens. Ray spent time in a federal prison for his action. During the period 1887 to 1894, the site was a short-lived hotel and casino, part of an ill-fated land development scheme. A prestigious finishing school, the National Park Seminary, occupied the site between 1894 and 1936, after which a women's junior college, the National Park College, was located there between 1937 and 1942.

With U.S. involvement in World War II, the Army’s Walter Reed General Hospital needed more space for the convalescence and rehabilitation of returning veterans. Exerting its authority under the War Powers Act, it bought the “National Park College” for $800,000 in 1942. In addition, the Army bought a much larger area of over 100 acres (0.40 km²) to the south of the school – then an operating dairy farm and a former tobacco plantation – which are now the operational portion of the installation.

From 1942 through 1977, the several buildings at the north end of the post housed the “Walter Reed Army Convalescent Center-Forest Glen Annex”, where Army providers treated soldiers wounded in Europe, Korea and Vietnam. Services included prosthetics, audiology, speech therapy, physical rehabilitation and a therapeutic art studio. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. When the last patient was discharged in 1977, the Army largely abandoned these buildings. In the late 1990s, U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes directed that funds be used for site stabilization of the old National Park College. In 1999, the Army began taking formal steps to "excess" the area now known as the "National Park Seminary Historic District."

References

↑ A new kind of Navy Exchange, http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/20063485/new-kind-of-navy-exchange, Posted: Nov 10, 2012 7:31 PM EST, Updated: Nov 24, 2012 11:14 PM EST.
↑ Palk, Justin M. (7 October 2008). "Fort Detrick to take over Forest Glen". Frederick News-Post. Retrieved 25 July 2014.

United States Army Medical Command

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Leadership

Army Medical Department

Officers	Medical Corps Nurse Corps Dental Corps Veterinary Corps Medical Service Corps Medical Specialist Corps

Enlisted	Enlisted medical soldiers

Major Subordinate Commands

Regional commands	North Atlantic RMC Southeast RMC Great Plains RMC Western RMC Europe RMC Pacific RMC

Others	AMEDD Center & School U.S. Army Dental Cmd U.S. Army Medical Research & Materiel Cmd U.S. Army Public Health Cmd U.S. Army Warrior Transition Cmd

Installations

Fort Sam Houston
Fort Detrick (with Forest Glen Annex)

Medical Centers
(MEDCENs)

Stateside	Brooke AMC Tripler AMC Eisenhower AMC Madigan AMC Womack AMC Beaumont AMC Carl R. Darnall AMC

Overseas	Landstuhl AMC

Medical Department Activities
(MEDDACs)

Hospitals	Bassett ACH Bayne Jones ACH Blanchfield ACH Brian Allgood ACH DeWitt ACH Evans ACH General Leonard Wood ACH Ireland ACH Irwin ACH Keller ACH Martin ACH McDonald ACH Moncrief ACH Reynolds ACH Weed ACH Winn ACH

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Field medical units

Medical Commands	AR-MEDCOM 807th MCDS 3rd MCDS

Medical Groups	5th Med Gp 55th Med Gp 67th Med Gp 176th Med Gp 307th Med Gp 139th Med Gp

Medical Brigades	1st Med BDE 2nd Med BDE 8th Med BDE 30th Med BDE 32nd Med BDE 44th Med BDE 62nd Med BDE 65th Med BDE 330th Med BDE 332nd Med BDE 338th Med BDE 804th Med BDE

Combat Support Hospitals	10th CSH 28th CSH 47th CSH 115th CSH 121st CSH 309th CSH 313th CSH 330th CSH 337th CSH 339th CSH 343d CSH 344th CSH 349th CSH 350th CSH 352d CSH 359th CSH 376th CSH 382d CSH 405th CSH 406th CSH 458th CSH 475th CSH 807th CSH 829th CSH 912d CSH 914th CSH

Forward Surgical Teams	1st FST 2nd FST 8th FST 67th FST 102nd FST 126th FST 135th FST 160th FST 240th FST 250th FST 274th FST (ABN) 402nd FST 541th FST (ABN) 555th FST 624th FST 628th FST 629th FST 691st FST 745th FST 758th FST 759th FST (ABN) 772nd FST 848th FST 874th FST 909th FST 911th FST 912th FST 915th FST 932nd FST 933rd FST 934th FST 936th FST 945th FST 946th FST 947th FST 948th FST 1980th FST 1982nd FST

Education

Centers, schools, etc	AMEDD Center & School U.S. Army School of Aviation Medicine Borden Institute

Museums	National Museum of Health and Medicine AMEDD Museum

Courses	Captains Career Course Walter Reed Tropical Medicine Course Department of Defense Veterinary Pathology Residency

Products	Textbook of Military Medicine War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq

Research Institutes & Centers

Stateside	Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD) U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research (ISR) U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM) U.S. Army Center for Environmental Health Research

Overseas	Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Science (AFRIMS) United States Army Medical Research Unit- Europe (USAMRU-E) U.S. Army Medical Research Unit-Kenya (USAMRU-K) Makerere University Walter Reed Project (MUWRP)

Historical

List of former United States Army medical units

Other

Walter Reed Health Care System
Military Vaccine Agency
Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care
U.S. Army Medical Information Technology Center (USAMITC)

Coordinates: 39°0′21″N 77°3′10″W / 39.00583°N 77.05278°W / 39.00583; -77.05278

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