Ex-Lewis soldier convicted of child rape
A former Fort Lewis soldier could spend more than two years in prison after convictions for child rape and furnishing liquor to a minor stemming from a December 2008 incident in Pacific County. Here’s...
View ArticleLocal links, April 6
Forward Operating Base Cobra, the bare-bones outpost in northern Diyala province that soldiers from 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division’s cavalry squadron moved into last year, has been receiving some...
View ArticleQuartermaster company returns
About 100 soldiers assigned to Joint Base Lewis-McChord’s 24th Quartermaster Company return home today after an 11-month deployment to Afghanistan. The company, part of the 593rd Sustainment Brigade,...
View ArticleJudge for yourself
This doesn’t have much to do with Joint Base Lewis-McChord, but I did find this compelling (and because the story won’t be going away anytime soon). Two Reuters photographers were among 12 people who...
View ArticleLocal links, April 7
Plenty of links this morning: Madigan Army Medical Center Thurston County home sales up [The News Tribune] 17th Fires Brigade Responsible Drawdown, Speaking Logistically [DVIDS] 42nd Military Police...
View ArticleLocal links, April 8
The Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldiers of the 24th Quartermaster Company received a heroes’ welcome when their plane landed for a layover in New Hampshire, seacoastonline.com reports. Other local links:...
View ArticleLocal links, April 9
A lacrosse team in Alpharetta, Ga., recently raised more than $2,750 in memory of Capt. John L. Hallett III, a member of 5th Brigade, 2nd Infanty Division killed in Afghanistan last year. “The Junior...
View ArticleReflecting on six months of war
Capt. Jason Sapp’s worst moment in Afghanistan? The afternoon of Aug. 25, when he first learned a roadside bomb had detonated underneath a vehicle carrying soldiers returning from a humanitarian...
View ArticleA cool mission
Missions to extreme-cold climates are nothing new for members of Joint Base Lewis-McChord’s 446th Airlift Wing, which flies cargo to research bases in Antarctica each year. But 11 airmen from the Air...
View ArticleQ&A with the military’s top man in Djibouti
Thousands of American service members have deployed to the Horn of Africa since 2002 as part of what amounts to a new way of doing business. They build schools, dig wells and train alongside African...
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