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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.
U.S. ARMY CAMP BONIFAS, South Korea – You stand atop an elevated tee box on the first and only hole of the world’s most dangerous golf course. And you consider your chances.
The commander of the Army Western Regional Medical Command will soon leave Fort Lewis to become the Army’s deputy surgeon general, the Pentagon announced this week.
The names newly carved into granite on the tiles of Tacoma’s Wall of Honor read like the secret key of a hard history lesson: Battle of the Bulge, An Khe, Da Nang, Pleiku, Heartbreak Ridge, Normandy, Berlin, Bay of Pigs.
Many service members returning from war have a hard time readjusting to life back home. As many as one-third suffer from irritability, nightmares, emotional swings and more – signs of post-traumatic stress disorder.
FORT HOOD, Texas – Massacre suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is permanently paralyzed, one of his defense attorneys said Friday.
OSHKOSH, Wis. – Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that he will lead an intensive push for new ways to defuse the threat from homemade bombs, the crude ambush weapons that account for eight in 10 casualties in Afghanistan.
In a Veterans Day ceremony that gave a glimpse of a Fort Lewis unit rarely seen publicly, hundreds of soldiers from 1st Special Forces Group gathered Wednesday to honor their two most recent fallen comrades.
The Boys of Baker Company are finally sharing their stories, nearly 60 years after they marched through the streets of Aberdeen on their way to serve in the Korean War.
A free doughnut is a nice first step. Krispy Kreme is one of the national franchises honoring veterans today by inviting them in for a treat on the house.
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For the third time since America went to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, crowds in Centralia waved flags and said farewell this morning to troops from Centralia’s National Guard Armory as they left town for overseas service.
The University of Puget Sound this evening will host a free public talk by a gay Army lieutenant who has become the latest case study in the debate over the military's controversial "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.
It was the deadliest day so far for Fort Lewis soldiers since the beginning of the wars in Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003, according to a News Tribune analysis of casualty numbers.
Vice President Joe Biden and his entourage were spotted in downtown Tacoma today, as he prepared to go to Fort Lewis Tuesday to pay respects and speak at the memorial ceremony for seven Stryker brigade soldiers. They were killed together when their vehicle hit a concealed bomb in southern Afghanistan two weeks ago.
A Lacey man was among the victims of the Thursday’s mass shooting at Fort Hood. Army Staff Sgt. Shawn Manning, 33, is alive and in stable condition in a Texas hospital, despite being shot six times, according to family members.
This week will be the last chance for visitors to drop by the Fort Lewis Military Museum before it closes for renovation on Nov. 16.
Soldiers in mechanic Good Adam’s squad could use laundry soap and boxer briefs.
Veterans Day falls on Wednesday this year, and South Sound residents will have multiple opportunities to honor veteran service members.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Just how dangerous is the smoke plume rising from the burn pit in Balad, Iraq? Military studies show different results.
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.
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.
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.
KABUL – Roadside bombs killed eight U.S. troops in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday in a pair of attacks that made October the deadliest month for Americans in the eight-year-old war and foreshadowed more violence in the days before a presidential runoff election.
Military officials said at least one bomb that blew up in southern Afghanistan early Tuesday struck armored Stryker vehicles, according to the Washington Post.
A doctor posed a simple question to Army Maj. A.J. Tong during his recovery from severe injuries in Iraq.
A military exercise involving special operations units training across the state began Monday, raising the possibility of noisy activities at Fort Lewis.
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.
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.
A Fort Lewis soldier was killed Wednesday in southern Afghanistan when a bomb detonated near his vehicle, the Department of Defense announced Thursday.
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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.
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