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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 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.
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.
A Fort Lewis soldier was killed Saturday in southern Afghanistan when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle, the Pentagon announced Tuesday.
Schoolchildren wrote letters. People dropped off toothbrushes, trail mix, comic books and coffee.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
OLYMPIA - The Washington National Guard honored dozens of returning soldiers Saturday at a Freedom Salute ceremony at the Red Lion Hotel Olympia.
Fort Lewis’ 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division is seeing far less violence and conducting fewer operations on its third deployment to Iraq.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hundreds packed the chapel: generals and privates, officers and enlisted, relatives and fellow soldiers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fort Lewis’ 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division took responsibility for American military operations in western Baghdad on Monday.
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.
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.
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.
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.
About 150 soldiers from Fort Lewis’ 497th Transportation Company returned home from a yearlong deployment to Iraq on Wednesday.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Micky Santa recalls a hellish ocean voyage to the Vietnam War in 1966.
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