I'm of the opinion that BRAC (as told to me by several people while at Ft. Sam) actually greatly benefited the military medical community. A very positive unintended benefit. I could never fathom as to why the government would ever want to split up differing medical service branches (unless, of course they were radically different). I'm a basic Combat Medic, I believe 91B back in your day. It's now classified as 68W (I'm 68W10, the 10 designating the most of specialties, I'm simply MOS Q'd). Thank you for your sacrifice and service, you've done a helluva lot more than I have. Salud.