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The hospital was named in honor of Colonel Patrick Madigan, an assistant to the U.S. Army Surgeon General from 1940 to 1943 who was also known as "The Father of Army Neuropsychiatry." On September 22, 1944, Madigan General Hospital was named in his honor. Colonel Patrick Madigan, the hospital's namesake.
Fort Lewis, Washington, 21 June 1971; 67th Medical Group. 20 November 1945 at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey [165] 20 January 1972 at Fort Lewis, Washington; 68th Medical Group. 27 June 1946 in Germany [166] 30 June 1972 at Fort Lewis, Washington [167] 15 December 1994 in Germany; 69th Medical Group [168] Fort Bragg, North Carolina, 1 November 1945
Fort Lewis is a United States Army base located 9.1 miles (14.6 km) south-southwest of Tacoma, Washington. Fort Lewis was merged with McChord Air Force Base on February 1, 2010, to form Joint Base Lewis–McChord .
The 62nd Medical Brigade [1], formerly the 62nd Medical Group of the United States Army is a unit of the Army Medical Department and I Corps and Fort Lewis. It is based entirely at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. Currently, the brigade is commanded by Colonel Sabrina Thweatt (AOC: 65D) in history to command a US Army medical brigade, and ...
Only operating as a fort from 1849 to 1868, the fort was then turned into the Western State Hospital. Today four officer's quarters built around 1858 remain from the original fort. Today four officer's quarters built around 1858 remain from the original fort.
While Fort Lewis housed around 4,000 German POWs, according to journalist and historian Steve Dunkelberger, Arrighi was part of the much smaller Italian group. A prisoner of war camp at Fort Lewis ...
The United States Army's 203rd General Hospital was activated on February 10, 1941, to meet anticipated military medical needs of a country preparing for war. Initially, the group was stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington, as a subsidiary of the base hospital there, and its primary function was to train medical technicians as army hospital and clinic support staff.
In 1917, the citizens of Pierce County, Washington approved a bond measure for $2,000,000 (equivalent to $47,563,636 in 2023) to buy 70,000 acres (283.28 km 2) of land to be donated to the Federal Government for use as a military reservation. This land became Camp Lewis (and later Fort Lewis). Ten years later, in 1927, another bond measure was ...