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MCCLATCHY BAGHDAD BUREAU
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FORT LEWIS NEWS
More military news: For your local military news visit the Northwest Guardian. The authorized newspaper of Fort Lewis, Wash.
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Catlin Ang doesn’t dread the knock on the door and the visit by two soldiers in dress uniforms. If the unthinkable happens in Afghanistan, she’ll likely find out over the phone.
Tech. Sgt. Heather Normand of Tacoma has loaded a variety of cargo onto jets over the years: food, water, troops, toilet paper, generators, helicopters, Humvees and more.
Aetna Government Health Plans of Hartford, Conn., appears to have gained an unfair advantage in competing for TRICARE’s North Region support contract, valued at $16.7 billion, by hiring a former chief of staff at TRICARE headquarters to help the company draft its winning proposal.
A Fort Lewis soldier on his first combat deployment was killed Tuesday in Afghanistan when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle.
It was supposed to be an easy mission: The Fort Lewis soldiers would load their Strykers with water and food for another platoon, ferry it to a combat outpost and return home.
TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. – Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed contrasting images.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate passed a military construction bill Tuesday that includes nearly $399 million for bases in Washington state, with about one-third of the funding targeted for Fort Lewis.
About 70 endangered frogs returned to the wild Tuesday after an infancy spent in captivity.
About 70 endangered frogs returned to the wild Tuesday after an infancy spent in captivity.
KIEL, Wis. – The hundreds of people who lined the main street of a small Indiana city Saturday fell solemnly silent as a white hearse passed by on its way to the church. Mourners streamed into a Wisconsin gymnasium to remember a soldier who once promised she would take down Osama bin Laden.
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