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Published November 3rd, 2009 - 8:31AM
About 120 members of McChord Air Force Base’s 10th Airlift Squadron return tomorrow from a four-month deployment to the Middle East.
Published November 2nd, 2009 - 12:05AM
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.
Published October 31st, 2009 - 11:05PM
Just how dangerous is the smoke plume rising from the burn pit in Balad, Iraq? Military studies show different results.
Published October 31st, 2009 - 12:05AM
A typical officer retiring today who declines to enroll in the Survivor Benefit Plan lets the government off the hook for a subsidy worth $50,100 in “net present value,” say Department of Defense actuaries.
Published October 28th, 2009 - 10:17PM
A highly decorated military police officer from Fort Lewis who saw previous action in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan died in Iraq Tuesday in what the Department of Defense is calling a noncombat incident.
Published October 27th, 2009 - 12:05AM
A doctor posed a simple question to Army Maj. A.J. Tong during his recovery from severe injuries in Iraq.
Published October 27th, 2009 - 12:05AM
A military exercise involving special operations units training across the state began Monday, raising the possibility of noisy activities at Fort Lewis.
Published October 24th, 2009 - 12:05AM
Members of a Fort Lewis engineer brigade who returned last month from a yearlong deployment in which they oversaw construction projects across Iraq were officially welcomed home at a ceremony Friday morning.
Published October 24th, 2009 - 12:05AM
Middle-class American youths are entering the military in significant numbers today, drawn by more competitive pay, a battered civilian job market and the buzz surrounding an improved GI Bill education benefit.
Published October 23rd, 2009 - 12:05AM
A Fort Lewis soldier was killed Wednesday in southern Afghanistan when a bomb detonated near his vehicle, the Department of Defense announced Thursday.
Published October 22nd, 2009 - 12:05AM
W earing white helmets, Jim Androy, left, and Ed Duchesne, right, employees of REP Electric of Tacoma, help guide a 10-ton propeller into place Wednesday at the Washington Soldiers Home & Colony in Orting. Delivery of the surplus U.S. Coast Guard cutter propeller from Fort Lewis marked the final leg of a multi-service, multi-agency effort to display the propeller as a tribute to veterans from all services.
Published October 21st, 2009 - 12:05AM
A Fort Lewis soldier was killed Saturday in southern Afghanistan when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle, the Pentagon announced Tuesday.
Published October 18th, 2009 - 12:05AM
Schoolchildren wrote letters. People dropped off toothbrushes, trail mix, comic books and coffee.
Published October 17th, 2009 - 12:05AM
Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki got a bipartisan hug from the House Veterans Affairs Committee Wednesday as lawmakers accepted his plan to fix Post-9/11 GI Bill payment delays, and blamed their own rush to enact the complex education benefit last year for some of the challenges the VA now faces.
Published October 14th, 2009 - 12:05AM
RENTON – Tech. Sgt. Brian King can’t count the number of times he’s driven past the Seattle Seahawks training facility and wondered what it’d be like to hang out with the players.
Published October 14th, 2009 - 12:05AM
A lawyer for two soldiers serving time in Fort Lewis’ on-post jail is alleging the military violated his clients’ civil rights by monitoring phone calls and possibly filming them during a strip search.
Published October 13th, 2009 - 3:06PM
RENTON – Tech. Sgt. Brian King can't count the number of times he's driven past the Seattle Seahawks' training facility and wondered what it'd be like to hang out with the players.
Published October 13th, 2009 - 3:02PM
A lawyer for two soldiers serving time in Fort Lewis' on-post jail is alleging the military violated his clients' civil rights by monitoring phone calls and possibly filming them during a strip search.
Published October 11th, 2009 - 6:51AM
OLYMPIA - The Washington National Guard honored dozens of returning soldiers Saturday at a Freedom Salute ceremony at the Red Lion Hotel Olympia.
Published October 11th, 2009 - 6:37AM
Fort Lewis’ 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division is seeing far less violence and conducting fewer operations on its third deployment to Iraq.
Published October 11th, 2009 - 12:05AM
Maj. Chuck Roede spent much of his last deployment to Iraq planning combat missions for a Fort Lewis Stryker battalion trying to quiet a raging insurgency.
Published October 11th, 2009 - 12:05AM
Washington’s subsidized health care program for low-income workers will be back on the chopping block next year as lawmakers try to deal with a new budget shortfall of more than $1 billion.
Published October 10th, 2009 - 12:05AM
The Fort Lewis commander serving as the American military’s second-in-command in Iraq said this week that the violence has dramatically declined but taken a decidedly political tone ahead of January’s parliamentary elections.
Published October 9th, 2009 - 12:05AM
In one of the last letters he wrote home, Spc. Kevin J. Graham told his wife the distance from his family had been so tough on the Fort Lewis soldier that he had covered his face and cried himself to sleep the night before.
Published October 8th, 2009 - 9:50AM
Volunteers in Puyallup are collecting snacks, books, playing cards, used CDs and DVDs and other items for soldiers of Fort Lewis’ 5th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division in Afghanistan.
Published October 8th, 2009 - 12:05AM
Iraq is months away from national elections, but the Fort Lewis unit running daily American military operations in Iraq is already preparing for the voting, which will be a benchmark of Iraq’s ability to run its own affairs.
Published October 8th, 2009 - 12:05AM
Hundreds packed the chapel: generals and privates, officers and enlisted, relatives and fellow soldiers.
Published October 8th, 2009 - 12:05AM
Volunteers in Puyallup are collecting snacks, books, playing cards, used CDs and DVDs, and other items for soldiers of Fort Lewis’ 5th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division in Afghanistan.
Published October 5th, 2009 - 12:42AM
Inez Glass has long felt the call to help people – an inspiration that took her to one of the defining battles of World War II, an instinct that led her to start a Gig Harbor nursing home to care for her aging family.
Published October 4th, 2009 - 12:05AM
JELAWUR, Afghanistan – The men of Bravo Company have a bitter description for the irrigated swath of land along the Arghandab River where 10 members of their battalion have been killed and 30 have been wounded since the beginning of August.
Published October 4th, 2009 - 12:05AM
A Fort Lewis unit newly deployed to Afghanistan to provide medical support has been the victim of a $2 million theft before it even had a chance to begin its mission.
Published October 3rd, 2009 - 12:05AM
The Army discharged Lt. Ehren Watada on Friday, writing the final chapter in the case of the most prominent military officer to refuse a deployment to Iraq.
Published October 3rd, 2009 - 12:05AM
Fort Lewis’ 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division took responsibility for American military operations in western Baghdad on Monday.
Published October 3rd, 2009 - 12:05AM
An Army Reserve soldier who rescued a 5-year-old boy from a burning home in Parkland will be given the Soldier’s Medal at a ceremony today at Fort Lewis.
Published October 3rd, 2009 - 12:05AM
Defense health officials didn’t do the Obama administration any favors Wednesday when they announced a “small” increase in the daily fee that military retirees under 65, their families and covered survivors must pay for inpatient care in civilian hospitals under TRICARE Standard starting Oct. 1.
Published October 3rd, 2009 - 12:05AM
The Army’s decision to discharge famed war resister Lt. Ehren Watada on Friday won praise from anti-war activists throughout the South Sound and nationwide.
Published October 1st, 2009 - 6:06PM
Published October 1st, 2009 - 12:05AM
RICHLAND – To learn how to better secure their country’s most important deepwater port, visitors from Thailand traveled to the baked desert of Central Washington, thanks to a program that links Washington National Guardsmen with their counterparts from Asia.
Published October 1st, 2009 - 12:05AM
About 150 soldiers from Fort Lewis’ 497th Transportation Company returned home from a yearlong deployment to Iraq on Wednesday.
Published September 29th, 2009 - 12:05AM
The e-mail was distributed around Fort Lewis on Saturday afternoon, and the message was all too familiar. Stryker troops from the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment were involved in a violent encounter in Afghanistan that day. One soldier was dead.
Published September 28th, 2009 - 7:58AM
Spc. Kevin J. Graham, 27, of Benton, Ky., was killed Saturday when his vehicle stuck a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. He was serving with 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. Sixteen soldiers from the Fort Lewis brigade have been killed since it deployed in July.
Published September 27th, 2009 - 12:05AM
Love of his new wife, love of his family and love for his country filled the young life of Army Spc. Joseph V. White of Bellevue, his mother said Saturday.
Published September 27th, 2009 - 12:05AM
DAHLONEGA, Ga. – Drenched in sweat, Army Capt. Aaron Hall peeled off his soggy socks and applied a liberal dose of foot powder before slipping on a dry pair and rallying his troops back to their throbbing feet. For an outfit used to being ferried to battle in armored vehicles, a 50-mile march through the Appalachians was tough.
Published September 27th, 2009 - 12:05AM
Lakewood will study the effects of Fort Lewis’ growth on surrounding communities, thanks to a $1.8 million grant from a Department of Defense agency.
Published September 27th, 2009 - 12:05AM
Micky Santa recalls a hellish ocean voyage to the Vietnam War in 1966.
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