of us are experiencing the Joint Basing experience and I had to ask is this
endeavor really beneficial to anyone? Case in point: JBER, AK – When going to
the hospital that is ran by the Air Force, priority for appointments are Airmen
first, their families then the Army. When seen by physicians and you are given
a profile or some other medical referral, it has to be ran through your
servicing TMC/PA. f this is supposed to be truly Joint Based then shouldn’t there
be a merge of care providers and “Joint Forms” used to alleviate the extra-ness
that is involved? What are your thoughts for those that are on JBs.
The other problem with Carswell was that we would send our soldiers next door to the Medical Clinic when the Navy was giving immunizations and they were turned away and told "These are for Navy personnel only." Last I checked the enemy wasn't genetically engineering a virus that only targeted Navy personnel. And I seriously doubt that this Navy flu vaccine would kill Army soldiers.
LTC Danberry, Ma'am, I could agree with you on the cost saving efforts and that would have been something that the top chiefs of each proponent should have enforced and saw through fruition. Going back to split-basing would indeed incur a lot of costs and at that point would essentially unravel everything that was being implemented. I believe the most viable solution to the problem would be to create "Joint Chain of Commands" at the installation level and desegregate the forces on these very installations. The only problem at the command level I foresee is the power-struggle between the branches. Even on JBER, there is a distinct segregation of the base denoted by roads and train tracks.
LTC Dickey, my sentiments exactly Sir. We faced the same issue when we were prepping for our deployment. We were trying to be proactive and get things done while on leave and just splitting up running around post getting last minuet stuff done and were turned away because of procedural or administrative conflicts.
Sir & Ma'am thank you both for your input.
The other problem with Carswell was that we would send our soldiers next door to the Medical Clinic when the Navy was giving immunizations and they were turned away and told "These are for Navy personnel only." Last I checked the enemy wasn't genetically engineering a virus that only targeted Navy personnel. And I seriously doubt that this Navy flu vaccine would kill Army soldiers.
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