Two doctors on a Madigan Army Medical Center team have been temporarily removed from clinical duties as the Army reviews the team's handling of post-traumatic stress disorder diagnoses of more than a dozen soldiers.
Pierce County District Court Judge Jack Nevin worked in military courts all over the world during his 33-year career as an Army Reserve attorney and judge. None was quite like the court he visited last month as an independent observer at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Lakewood officials didn’t fully consider how allowing the main gate serving Camp Murray to move deeper into the Tillicum neighborhood would affect residents, a lawyer argued during a seven-hour hearing Friday.
January was a hard month for Washington state’s military community. It lost five service members who grew up here or served here to fighting in Afghanistan, the most casualties in a single month since July 2010 when seven were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The flags at all state agency buildings will be lowered today in memory of a soldier from Tacoma who died last month in Afganistan.
Joint Base Lewis-McChord could have a new commanding general by the time the man with the current job returns from his post leading daily combat operations in Afghanistan.
A Lacey soldier was arrested after leading police on a high-speed chase to his Carpenter Road home Monday, a day after he broke his girlfriend’s jaw and held her at gunpoint during a dispute, court papers state.
The flags at all state agency buildings will be lowered today in honor of a U.S. Marine from Ferndale who was killed earlier this month in Afghanistan.
WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs is facing a growing backlog of disability claims, fueled by veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and a policy change making it easier for Vietnam veterans to file Agent Orange-related claims.
Pfc. Neil Turner’s first letter to his mother from Army basic training in the fall of 2010 reads like the diary of a young man thrilled to see the world on his own. The 21-year-old soldier’s life and career were cut short Jan. 11 when he was killed in an Army training accident at an American base in Afghanistan’s Logar Province.
Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Belfair, calls the F-35 jet “the big enchilada,” the most advanced stealth aircraft in the world and a great investment in U.S. national security. For Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is a scandal and a tragedy, destined to become the most costly weapons program in history and one beset by delays and huge cost overruns.
Ed Porter earned his Silver Star in a hellish moment on a French battlefield 67 years ago. Now Porter wants to help other veterans get the public recognition they deserve for their wartime accomplishments. He's behind an effort in the Legislature to craft new license plate decals for veterans that would let them display their military honors, such as the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star and the Bronze Star.
Services for Neil Isaac Turner, who was killed in Afghanistan Jan. 11, are planned Monday in Tacoma and Kent. Turner, 21, was a 2008 graduate of Lincoln high School and joined the Army in summer 2010.
With a full base for the first time in a decade and more soldiers stationed here than ever before, Joint Base Lewis-McChord last year recorded new highs for misdemeanor crimes and for offenses involving driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, according to statistics provided to The News Tribune.
The Army is reviewing the actions of a Madigan Army Medical Center psychiatric team that reversed the diagnoses of more than a dozen soldiers previously found to have post-traumatic stress disorder.
Pfc. Steven Sherry, 21, broke a game of nine ball Friday and glanced approvingly at the action around him. Beyond the eight pool tables awaited a phalanx of state-of-the-art computers, gaming consoles and monitors. When they weren’t playing video games or surfing the Internet, soldiers lounged and watched the digital firefights on 55-inch or even larger projection screens.
Tenino police arrested a solider at Joint Base Lewis-McChord for allegedly shooting up a Rainier home on New Year’s Day to get revenge for an affair.
Air Force Master Sgt. Steven Turner’s spoiled Christmas generated a ton of goodwill from News Tribune readers in late December when we wrote about a burglar swiping presents he bought his son and stealing a special collection of rare records from his Graham home during his last deployment to Afghanistan.
Military kids and the educators who teach them in South Sound schools can learn about the stresses of deployment at a new website developed by a Pentagon research branch at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
One of Joint Base Lewis-McChord’s quickest tools for sharing information briefly became a seedbed for frightening rumors Thursday night when someone wrote on a garrison Facebook Web page that a cargo jet had crashed into a military housing community.
Lawmakers told Washington’s Lottery last year to sell $10 raffle tickets and directed proceeds of the annual game to the Veterans Innovations Program, which hands out small grants of cash to help veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with rent, gas, school and other expenses. The program otherwise received no new funding in the current state budget.
The Special Forces soldier from Joint Base Lewis-McChord who died Sunday from combat injuries he suffered in Afghanistan was a father of three with a long military career in the South Sound.
The state House has passed a series of bills affecting military members, including one that requires colleges and universities to let reservist students who are called to active duty or training for up to 30 days to make up missed exams.
A Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier died Sunday after sustaining injuries Jan. 9 in Balkh Province, Afghanistan. He sustained the injuries after his unit was attacked with small-arms fire, the Department of Defense reported.
A Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier died Sunday after sustaining injuries Jan. 9 in the Balkh province, Afghanistan, after his unit was attacked with small-arms fire.
Joint Base Lewis-McChord’s senior commander advised NATO soldiers Friday to treat Afghan corpses with “appropriate dignity and respect” as he sought to contain the international fallout from a video that allegedly shows four Marines urinating on Taliban bodies.
An Army training accident in Afghanistan claimed the life of a Lincoln High School graduate known for his love of music and the watchful eye he kept on his three younger brothers.
Tacoma residents are mourning a recent Lincoln High School graduate who died in a training accident in Afghanistan this week. The Army has not yet released details on how Pvt. Neil Turner lost his life. His father on Facebook today wrote “My son, Neil, was killed during a training exercise yesterday in Afghanistan. When I get all the findings, I will post them.”
For Seattle police officers, working an off-duty security job at a Seahawks game mostly means helping people find their seats, breaking up squabbles between drunken fans and getting a chance to watch some football.
Joint Base Lewis-McChord on Tuesday ended a six-day lockdown of about 100 Stryker soldiers who were restricted as a group while officers searched for $600,000 worth of missing gear that belonged to their unit.
The Army Criminal Investigative Command confirmed that the haul of missing weapon accessories at Joint Base Lewis-McChord is worth about $600,000.
The Army has put the last case in its Joint Base Lewis-McChord “kill team” investigation on hold for another two months to give defense attorneys for accused Spc. Michael Wagnon time to wrap up their preparations.
The Army has put the last case in its Joint Base Lewis-McChord “kill team” investigation on hold for another two months to give defense attorneys for accused Spc. Michael Wagnon time to wrap up their preparations.
About 100 soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord remained on lockdown Sunday as the Army continued its investigation into the theft of what is believed to be hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of sensitive items like night-vision goggles and weapon attachments.
WASHINGTON – The Cold War ended in 1991. But you might not know it looking at Naval Base Kitsap Bangor.
Weapons accessories – such as laser sights – are missing from a Joint Base Lewis-McChord Stryker brigade, leading to an entire 100-member infantry company being locked down while the Army investigates, the Army said Saturday.
FORT BRAGG, N.C. – A scene of stomach-clenching gore confronted the special operations troops: the shredded remains of a suicide bomber, scattered around the checkpoint.
A memorial for Army Spc. Mikayla “Kayla” Bragg of Longview was held Saturday at Christian Faith Center in Federal Way.
Many military homeowners who saw their homes plummet in value in the financial crisis still can’t get relief from “underwater” mortgages that leave families owing more to loan servicers than their homes are worth.
President Obama’s new defense strategy plays to the strengths of the Puget Sound’s military resources and could shield the region from severe cuts in Pentagon spending, lawmakers said Thursday.
Some of Joint Base Lewis-McChord’s top cops are heading to Afghanistan to manage detainees in U.S. custody at a 10-year-old NATO prison.
Some of Joint Base Lewis-McChord’s top cops are heading to Afghanistan where they’ll be in charge of all detainees in U.S. custody. The 120 soldiers in the 42nd Military Police Brigade’s headquarters company mainly will manage a large prison at Bagram Air Field north of Kabul for the next nine months.
An Army medic who killed himself and his wife on Interstate 5 in April enjoyed “the manic feeling” of his bipolar disorder and occasionally skipped his medication, according to Army and police investigations obtained by The News Tribune.
Congress has known for a decade that the formula it set in 1997 for adjusting physician payments under Medicare – and by extension the fees paid to civilian doctors under Tricare, the military’s health insurance program – is seriously flawed and can’t be allowed to take effect.
Joint Base Lewis-McChord passed an unwelcome milestone in 2011, recording more soldier suicides than in any previous year.
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