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Womack Army Medical Center

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This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations . Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (February 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Womack Army Medical Center Fort Bragg Distinctive Unit Insignia Type Military hospital Site information Controlled by United States Army Medical Department Site history Built 2000 (current structure) Garrison information Current commander COL John J. Melton CSM Uriah Popp Womack Army Medical Center (WAMC) is a United States Army-run military hospital that is located on Fort Bragg near Fayetteville, North Carolina. The facility is named for Medal of Honor recipient Bryant H. Womack. It contains 138 beds with about 66,000 patients visiting the hospital's emergency department and a total of more than 11,000 patients are admitted yearly. Its physicians perform about 2,700 inpatient and 7,400 outpatient surgeries each yea...

Fort Bragg

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This article is about the military installation in North Carolina. For other uses, see Fort Bragg (disambiguation). Fort Bragg, North Carolina Cumberland / Hoke / Moore / Harnett counties, near Fayetteville, North Carolina Insignia of units assigned to Fort Bragg Type Military Base Site information Controlled by United States Site history Built 1918 In use 1918–present Garrison information Garrison XVIII Airborne Corps For tenant units, See below Fort Bragg, North Carolina is a military installation of the United States Army and is the largest military installation in the world (by population) with more than 50,000 active duty personnel. [1] The installation is located within Cumberland, Hoke, Harnett, and Moore counties. The installation borders the towns of Fayetteville, Spring Lake, and Southern Pines. It was also a census-designated place in the 2000 census, during which a residential population of 29,183 was identified. [2] It is named for Confederate General Braxton Bragg. It...