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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.
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.
Seven fallen soldiers brought together the vice president of the United States, at least four members of Congress, retired generals and hundreds of mourners Tuesday at Fort Lewis.
The seven Fort Lewis Stryker soldiers who died in a bomb blast two weeks ago were "decent, ordinary, yet extraordinary men." Vice President Joe Biden said at a ceremony today. "They are all of our sons, and they are all of our brothers," he said.
The Department of Defense confirmed Monday the death of two Fort Lewis soldiers who died Thursday in Jelewar, Afghanistan.
Vice President Joe Biden is to appear at Fort Lewis today to pay respects and speak at the memorial ceremony for seven Stryker brigade soldiers who were killed together when their vehicle hit a concealed bomb in southern Afghanistan two weeks ago.
The Department of Defense confirmed today the death of two Fort Lewis soldiers who died Thursday in Jelewar, Afghanistan.
WASHINGTON – No one knows how long the bomb lay under the packed earth of southern Afghanistan. How many times had the soldiers stepped over it? Each member of Lt. Dan Berschinski’s platoon had, at least twice. The Fort Lewis officer figures he walked by the area two times with no problems.
A Bellingham-area soldier who was assigned to Fort Lewis was killed in Afghanistan on Thursday after he drove his Stryker vehicle over a buried explosive, according to his family.
Pfc. Brian Russell Bates loved bragging about his home state of Louisiana, and never tired of telling his fellow soldiers about how he had survived Hurricane Katrina.
On one of the last missions of his young life, Spc. Kyle A. Coumas had to carry the extra ammunition for his Stryker brigade squad. The extra 120 pounds wore on the Central California native as he marched through southern Afghanistan.
Yellow ribbons flapped briskly Thursday afternoon on the Freedom Bridge over Interstate 5 near the Fort Lewis gates. In the businesses near the post, it was eerily quiet.
A soldier from Vancouver, Wash., was one of eight Fort Lewis soldiers killed in southern Afghanistan this week.
The Fort Lewis community gathered Wednesday to remember Spc. Michael A. Dahl Jr. as a soft-spoken guy who never seemed to get rattled or upset.
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