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Published May 26th, 2012 - 1:16PM
A Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier died in Afghanistan Thursday, the fourth JBLM soldier to die there since May 18.
Published May 25th, 2012 - 12:05AM
A junior Army officer from Joint Base Lewis-McChord was killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday just a few months into his first combat tour, the U.S. military announced.
Published May 17th, 2012 - 12:05AM
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — It was early in the morning, perhaps 2 a.m., when gunfire awakened 14-year-old Rafiullah.
Published May 16th, 2012 - 8:01PM
Sgt. Nicholas Dickhut stood his ground, whether he was a Joint Base Lewis-McChord Stryker soldier on a combat tour or he was training to become one.
Published May 13th, 2012 - 1:19AM
Maj. Dave Polizzotti used to balance his family finances. He has not touched a checkbook in a decade.
Published May 13th, 2012 - 12:05AM
Sgt. Jeremy Spradlin didn’t want to go to Afghanistan this time. He’s on his sixth overseas deployment of the past 11 years. The time away from family is taking its toll in moments he’s missing with his teenage son and mornings he’s waking up without his wife of 16 years.
Published May 13th, 2012 - 12:05AM
Resilient, tough, experienced, professional. The Army uses words like these to describe U.S. soldiers in the post-9/11 era who have had to adapt to the new normal of repeat combat tours. The same words apply to the spouses, children and other loved ones of oft-deployed troops.
Published May 13th, 2012 - 12:05AM
After a decade of marriage to an Army officer, Tommie Polizzotti has learned that her life must roll on no matter how much change her husband’s career requires.

Published May 13th, 2012 - 12:05AM
Sarah Miller counts time in bite-sized chunks. With an iPhone app, she tracks the days until a trip home to California and a visit to Disneyland. How long until Father’s Day? Fourth of July? Her husband Chris’ birthday?
Published May 9th, 2012 - 5:41PM
Keeping Afghan helicopters and cargo planes in the air takes a creativity that tech-savvy U.S. airmen come to admire soon after they start working with their Afghan partners.
Published May 3rd, 2012 - 12:05AM
Spc. Philip Schiller’s commander thought of the young Stryker soldier whenever someone mentioned Rambo, the ripped Vietnam War veteran from Sylvester Stallone’s action flicks.
Published May 2nd, 2012 - 5:10PM
Noted national defense attorney Alan Dershowitz titled his autobiography “The Best Defense,” leaving readers to fill in the rest of the sports cliche.
Published April 24th, 2012 - 5:17PM
When Pfc. Renee Buschman was first assigned to reach out to Afghan women to learn about their lives, she fell flat.
Published April 21st, 2012 - 6:04PM
Joint Base Lewis-McChord’s top commanders will start their journey home from Afghanistan in the next two months, saying they moved the war in the right direction even as they coped with staggering setbacks that threatened popular support for the 11-year-old conflict.
Published April 21st, 2012 - 5:40PM
Sgt. Stephen Spangler is on his third tour fighting in this country in the past five years. But for the first time, he says he’s seeing Afghan soldiers ready to take control of the battlefield.


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