The 44th Medical Brigade is a US Army unit located at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, providing health care and medical services to the Fort Bragg community, and continuing training in its combat support
44th Medical Brigade Headquarters, 8500 Area, Long Binh Post, Republic of Vietnam, January 1968
Captain Walter F. "Wally" Johnson III served as a plans and operations officer in the 44th Medical Brigade S-3 from December 1966-January 1968. As a Brigadier General, he would serve as Chief of the Army Medical Service Corps from October 1985 to October 1988
In March 1967, Lieutenant Colonel Rose V. Straley (shown here as a colonel in 1972) was assigned as the 44th Medical Brigade's first chief nurse
44th Medical Brigade Headquarters, Building 5743, Long Binh Post, Republic of Vietnam, January 1969
The XVIII Airborne Corps is a corps of the United States Army that has been in existence since 1942 and saw extensive service during World War II. The corps is designed for rapid deployment anywhere i
44th Medical Brigade
…Medical Brigade was inactivated at Fort Meade, Maryland. The brigade was reactivated on 21 September 1974 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, assigned to the XVIII Airborne Corps. The 44th Medical Brigade deployed in support of XVIII Airborne Corps operations in Grenada, Panama, and Iraq, the last of which earned the brigade…
The XVIII Airborne Corps command group, led by LTG (later GEN) Lloyd J. Austin, returns home from Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2009