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WASHINGTON – No one knows how long the bomb lay under the packed earth of southern Afghanistan. How many times had the soldiers stepped over it? Each member of Lt. Dan Berschinski’s platoon had, at least twice. The Fort Lewis officer figures he walked by the area two times with no problems.
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.
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.
Yellow ribbons flapped briskly Thursday afternoon on the Freedom Bridge over Interstate 5 near the Fort Lewis gates. In the businesses near the post, it was eerily quiet.
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.
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.
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 Fort Lewis soldier was killed Wednesday in southern Afghanistan when a bomb detonated near his vehicle, the Department of Defense announced Thursday.
A Fort Lewis soldier was killed Saturday in southern Afghanistan when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle, the Pentagon announced Tuesday.
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 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.
Hundreds packed the chapel: Generals and privates, officers and enlisted, relatives and fellow soldiers.
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