A battalion of Joint Base Lewis-McChord artillerymen came home to the South Sound on Monday, ending an 11-month deployment to eastern Afghanistan.
A battalion of Joint Base Lewis-McChord artillerymen came home to the South Sound on Monday, ending an 11-month deployment to eastern Afghanistan.
About 200 soldiers from Lewis-McChord’s 1st Battalion, 377th Field Artillery Regiment of the 17th Fires Brigade made the trip home.
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An Army budget deficit of about $18 billion is forcing units including Lewis-McChord’s 17th Fires Brigade to scale down or cancel elaborate live exercises this year. It’s replacing them in part with combined live and virtual exercises to help the Army get the most from every practice round it fires.
According to a Department of Defense release: "Sgt. 1st Class James F. Grissom, 31, of Hayward, Calif., died March 21 at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany, of wounds suffered from small arms fire March 18 in Paktika Province, Afghanistan."
Two neighboring homes on Desert Springs Avenue in south Richland were damaged Friday night in a fire. No one was hurt in the blaze, which broke out about 8 or 8:30 p.m., said Battalion Chief James Hempstead of the Richland Fire Department.
It appears the fire started outside, possibly in a fence line area between the homes, he said.
The cause is under investigation.
Two men helped save a pregnant cow and several horses and goats after a fire erupted at a barn in Arlington.
A Green Beret from Joint Base Lewis-McChord’s 1st Special Forces Group died Thursday from wounds he suffered earlier in the week in eastern Afghanistan, the Defense Department announced Sunday.
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