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MCCLATCHY BAGHDAD BUREAU
"Inside Iraq" is a blog updated by Iraqi and U.S. journalists based in Baghdad and outlying provinces. These are firsthand accounts of their experiences. Read the blog
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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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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.
Some of the U.S. Army’s best spies recently departed Fort Lewis for Iraq, where they will help teach the Iraqi military how to play spy games at a high level too.
More than a month after a new fiscal year began Oct. 1, the House and the Senate are still pressing to pass a group of bills to improve veterans’ benefits and health programs, rolling them together in “omnibus” legislative packets.
A 29-year-old Fort Lewis soldier on her second tour of duty in Iraq died Wednesday in what the Department of Defense is calling a noncombat incident, according to a news release issued Friday.
A Veterans Day parade with more than 200 entries, known as the largest of its kind west of the Mississippi River, is scheduled for Saturday morning in Auburn.
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.
About 120 members of McChord Air Force Base’s 10th Airlift Squadron are scheduled to return today from a four-month deployment to the Middle East.
About 120 members of McChord Air Force Base’s 10th Airlift Squadron return tomorrow from a four-month deployment to the Middle East.
HOUSTON – Even though it was 65 years ago, Al Tortolano clearly recalls the one thought, the only thought, that ran through his mind as his military unit was surrounded by German soldiers during World War II.
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