Furlough Impact: Fort Bragg Friday Closures

As the effects of the impending furlough of Department of the Army civilians, and funding reductions across the Department of Defense begin to take effect, Fort Bragg leaders have announced the following impacts to services provided to the Fort Bragg community.

“While the furloughs will impact the services that we can provide to the military community, we will not lose our capacity to train and equip our Airborne and Special Operations service member, deploy them if the call comes, and provide essential life, health and safety measures to our war fighters, their Families and our civilian workforce,” said Col. Jeffrey Sanborn, Fort Bragg Garrison Commander.

CLOSING ON FRIDAYS:

These services will be affected by sequestration and the furlough of civilian employees. These services will not be available on Friday on July 12-Sept. 30.

Army Community Services

Soldier and Family Assistance Center

Drug testing

Army substance abuse prevention centers

Military Personnel Office (Including official passports)

Identification Card Center

Department of Defense schools: Five days of teacher furloughs beginning in August

Housing Referral and Residential Communities Initiative offices

DA photo lab

Training Support Center

Force Modernization office

Classified material destruction facility

Flight simulators

Visual information and multimedia

Garrison Command and business offices

Stray animal facility

Throckmorton Library

Central vehicle wash facility

Nonhousing trash collection and landfill operations

Fire trainers

Soldier Readiness Center

Pest management

Recycling operations

Range operations, scheduling and maintenance

No custodial service in garrison facilities

No facility maintenance response

No self-help orders received or issued

No postwide police call (in grounds)

CLOSING ON OTHER DAYS

Services affected on days other than Friday:

Simmons and MacKall Army airfields will close Friday, Saturday and Sunday

Installation shuttle will have reduced service

Commissaries will close on Monday

McKellars Range will have no shooting on Sunday

Range control and fire desk will be closed from midnight Saturday to 8 a.m. Sunday beginning July 14. No training will be conducted during this time.

MEDICAL SERVICES

Womack Army Medical Center's main outpatient pharmacy will close Sunday beginning July 14

Refill Distribution Center pharmacy will close at noon Saturday beginning July 13

Post Exchange pharmacy will close from 1 to 2 p.m. beginning July 8

Womack's outlying clinics will close Friday from July 8 to Sept. 30. Clinics include Clark Health Clinic, Joel Health and Dental Clinic, Robinson Health Clinic, Troop and Family Medical Clinic, Fayetteville Medical Home and Hope Mills Medical Home.

Womack's residency clinic will operate as a consolidated clinic on Friday beginning July 8. Patients must call 907-2778 to make appointments and call 907-2625 to cancel appointments. Patients may schedule or cancel appointments through the Tricare website, tricareonline.com.

Fort Bragg dental clinics will close Fridays July 12-Sept. 30. Dental emergencies will be treated at Davis and Laflamme dental clinics on furlough days.