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This thing is hilarious. The problem with a sequel to Hamlet is that everybody interesting is dead by the end. That doesn’t discourage Dana Marschz, a Tucson high school drama teacher, from trying to save the school’s theater program with a sequel named Hamlet 2. The shop class builds him a
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Lying on his side across an exam table, Spc. Enrique Rivera winced as the metal instrument raked the length of his outer thigh repeatedly. In the hands of Staff Sgt. Adam Lautenschlager, the butter knife-like implement is used for physical therapy. "This is an instrument-assisted soft tissue
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While Tacoma has been the site of big hit movies over the years, it really hasn't been host to local talent that made a film that made it big. Until now. Tacoma's Dead Gentlemen Productions has released its latest film and found it rocketing to the top of the Netflix request
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While Tacoma has been the site of big hit movies over the years, it really hasn't been host to local talent that made a film that made it big. Until now. Tacoma's Dead Gentlemen Productions has released its latest film and found it rocketing to the top of the Netflix request
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Throughout the years, retired Air Force Staff Sgt. Herb Tollefson hasn't quit being a mechanic. At the age of 94, the Tacoma resident still fixes his tractors and lawnmowers when they break down and doodles in the old red barn that sits on a huge backyard filled with farm relics
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JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AFNS) - The show Mighty Planes took aim at a new plane, the C-17 Globemaster III, and the Discovery Channel was here to film the versatile cargo plane from Sept. 20 to Sept. 26. "The whole show Mighty Planes is exactly what it is, it's planes that
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CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Airmen from the 62nd and 446th Airlift Wings kicked off their participation in the 2012-2013 Operation Deep Freeze main season, transporting National Science Foundation cargo and personnel to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, Oct. 1. Deployed as the 304th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron from McChord Field, they departed Christchurch International Airport
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(446th AW PA) - About 30 Air Force Reservists from the 446th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron who've returned from deployments around the globe celebrated with friends and family at a "welcome home" barbecue Oct. 3 at McChord Field. Most of the Reservists, who supported Operation Enduring Freedom, have served on deployments lasting
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WASHINGTON (AFNS) - As part of a career broadening opportunity, a new nomination and selection process to attend sister-service enlisted professional military education (EPME) courses has been established for senior non-commissioned officers. "The significance rests with the transformation from a first-come, first-served process to one that incorporates deliberate development and a
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On a yearlong deployment to war-torn Afghanistan, Washington Army National Guard Soldier Joe Wardell found something that helped him stay sane and focus on his family back home - a stuffed camel named Doodey. Doodey accompanied Wardell into combat as a way to explain the long deployment to his then
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October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, making it the perfect time for Joint Base Lewis-McChord to host its first Employment, Volunteer and Education (EVE) Fair. Held Oct. 10 on the lower level of Madigan Army Medical Center, the fair was co-hosted by the Army Community Service Exceptional Family Member
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The Red Cross is one of the first places Servicemembers and their families turn in the event of an emergency. "We'd like everyone to be educated about the Red Cross messaging system and how it works since if they must use it, it is usually in a time of stress," said
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Every Thursday afternoon, 8-year-old Clara Maddox eagerly awaits her private piano lesson with Amy Weitz. Clara has been taking lessons for a year, and "she's in love with the piano," said her mother, Janet Maddox. "This is the first thing she has wanted to do consistently since we've moved out
