Sufficiently expendable heads will roll; but nobody who can point up the chain or say publicly that the Pentagon is responsible for underfunding milmed, which is the real truth. They will make it seem as if it is the local commander's fault entirely. Then the Greek chorus of critcs will join in and say how the closing of WRAMC is sad but ultimately necessary and should be accelerated so that adequate facilities can be funded at the new locations. If there is space near Ft. Myers or another D.C. military campus, the residents will be moved there. Building 18 will be symbolically closed, perhaps demolished for the cameras, if someone can pull it off.
Someone will try to point out that Medhold is a netherworld: not part of the medical command, technically under the umbrella of the Military District of Washington, but heretofore ignored by them and treated as if it were part of WRAMC as it members are in temporary status, not fit for duty, not part of any permanent wartime command, and now that they have been featured so negatively, not wanted to be owned by anybody.
The Pentagon will figure the bad press will blow over soon enough, as it usually does. So short term stage management will be done: the obligatory guillotinings, the public pronouncements, the wrecking ball, reassuring letters to all the people who were responsible for the low-level day to day management of the very problems that are getting bad press. Who knows, if the higher-ups can play it right, they might get a ribbon cutting or two out of it.
