Is this another backdoor draft?
Military Amputees to Get New Rehab Center
Friday November 19, 2004 10:01 PM
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By SAM HANANEL
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - A state-of-the-art rehabilitation center opening next year at Walter Reed Army Medical Center seeks to return more amputee soldiers to a place once thought impossible: the battlefield.
Besides treadmills and stationary bikes, the $10 million Military Amputee Training Center will have weapons simulators, a climbing and rappelling wall and military vehicle simulators to help soldiers adapt their prosthetics to driving tanks and trucks.
`Our guys and gals, they don't want to just walk household distances, they want to be able to return to running, they want to be able to return to duty,'' Lt. Col. Jeff Gambel, clinical chief of the amputee clinic, said Friday at a groundbreaking ceremony. ``And if they don't return to duty, they want to be able to rock climb and do all those other things.''
The center brings together new and existing facilities and counseling services for amputees in a single 30,000-square-foot, three-story addition to the hospital. ............
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