What is excellence in military medical care?

We have received excellent care at Offutt AFB. With medicare we are free to go elsewhere and may since we have moved further away. But. certainly not because the care is lacking.

In 2013 while visiting my son SFC Steven Borders at Ft Belvoir. I had to go to the base hospital for an uncontrollable bleeding nose. Fort Belvoir Community Hospital took very good care of me and was greatly surprised by their service and dedication to their patients.

This is an easy one. The 121st Army hospital in Seoul, South Korea. In 2001, I almost lost my foot to amputation due to a combination of a bad sprain, over 12 fl. oz. of blood clot and almost died from a still unknown blood poisoning from the injury. I was a resident of the 121 for a month, and endured several surgeries and fought off the blood infection. The care I received was top-notch, and the nurses were all very supportive of me in my dire time of need. The orthopedic surgeon did indeed save my foot, and even though he was the recipient of some foul language on my part when he would stick the wooden swab all the way inside my foot trying to get blood cultures, he fully understood the sheer agony of that and held no ill will because of it. He talked me into taking my four month convalescent leave in-country and I am glad I did. A few months after I was discharged from the hospital, I went back to personally thank everyone for the superior care. I never got the quality of care in any hospital setting, whether it was civilian, military, or VA before or since this.