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Hi, My name is Sam Ramos and I am a Samoyed. My adoptive human mother, Sheila, will be going away for training from July 16 through September 21, 2010. She will be going to Ft. Sam Houston, Texas and I wish I could go with her but I'd probably get a
Military Life
"The entire Army community is changing, and the spouses' clubs are following suit," explained Officers' Spouses Club president Stacey Phillips, whose husband, Lt. Col. Michael Phillips, is a commander with the 308th Brigade Support Battalion, 17th Fires Brigade. For the past two years, the OSC has shared building space with the
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For those wanting to give a little something back and express their gratitude for a stellar Air Expo 2010 lineup, the Air Force Association is hosting a four-person golf scramble at 1 p.m. July 9 at Whispering Firs Golf Course on McChord Field. All of the proceeds from the tournament go
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If the pilots on the Seattle Seahawks' team plane are ever unable to fly the team home from a road trip, safety Jamar Adams has no problem with sliding into the pilot's seat and taking the stick. After spending one hour Monday in a C-17 Globemaster III simulator at McChord Field,
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Lt. Col. Rodney Lewis tells his airmen, "Remember who you are." He wants to remind them that they are part of a rich heritage. "This is a way for me to remind them of the sacrifices made before they arrived in the squadron and to understand that we will leave our legacy,"
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The Washington Army National Guard's 133rd Army Band, which is comprised of 41 citizen-soldiers, will kick off their annual week's worth of free summer concerts for the local community. Venues, which will span from Olympia to Tacoma to the peninsula, are chosen based on the location's popularity within the neighborhood
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DIYALA, Iraq - "The best memory I had of my brother was going to the airport when he left to live with his dad when I was four," said Spc. Joshua Wagner, a cook from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 296th Brigade Support Battalion, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry
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Capt. Dayne Nelson, who recently completed his six-year residency at Madigan Army Medical Center, knew that he would be PCSing this summer and that he would need to sell his family's home. Nelson and his wife Quinn purchased their home in DuPont back in March 2006, when the real estate
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If fan support plays any role whatsoever in driver performance, you might give Top Fuel's Tony Schumacher a slight edge in this weekend's National Hot Rod Association Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceways in Kent. Driving the U.S. Army car, Schumacher is hoping to put on a strong performance for military fans
Veterans
Take one step inside Peggy Walther's home and there's no mistaking what her favorite holiday is. "My granddaughter calls me the red, white and blue grandma," said the 82-year-old Walther, who taught elementary school in the Clover Park School District for 21 years. The Lakewood resident's white kitchen is filled with red,
Operation Family Support
The Capital Playhouse in Olympia offers a variety of summer programs focused on the arts, including the Kids At Play (KAP) series, which will put on five performances this year. The first performance will be "Willy Wonka," based on the popular book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl,
Military Life
Like any good creative writer, Mariah Bellamoroso simply took what she saw around her and weaved it into a story. During a recent outing to Pike Place Market in Seattle, the 15-year-old saw an inspiring encounter between a street musician and someone watching him perform. The wheels started turning in Bellamoroso's
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During a press conference held in the fall of 2007, Maj. Gen. Richard Sherlock announced the Army's goal to make dwell time equal to deployed time. In late 2009, Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh divulged Army Chief of Staff Gen. George G. Casey Jr.'s plan to increase Army dwell
Operation Family Support
In July 2007, Dr. Barbara Van Dahlen, a licensed clinical psychologist, began collecting resources, information and volunteers in order to found Give an Hour. Give an Hour is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing free counseling and other mental health services to active duty servicemembers, National Guard members, reservists, and
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During any hospital stay, at any hospital - civilian or military - incidents can occur involving a patient's safety and well-being. To minimize these incidents, Madigan Army Medical Center and the Military Health System, or MHS, have partnered to develop a new patient safety reporting tool, using a commercial, off-the-shelf program
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Since the onset of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the number of active duty servicemembers diagnosed with sleep disorders has increased dramatically. The two most prevalent disorders include sleep apnea - interrupted breathing during sleep - and insomnia - trouble falling or staying asleep. Recent data released by the Armed Forces
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GRAFENWOEHR, Germany - "Sorry, you aren't going anywhere until your EFMP status is updated," is a distressing thing for a soldier to hear as he or she is preparing to PCS. All soldiers are at risk of hearing that statement if at least one of their dependents, adult or child, is
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The Transportation Security Administration is reminding military members that explosives are not allowed on commercial flights. TSA spokesman Lauren Gaches said agency workers occasionally encounter servicemembers who have packed inert grenades or other prohibited items in their luggage, often as a keepsake from the battlefield. "The problem is, when you're looking at
Veterans
WASHINGTON (June 29, 2010) - Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki announced today that the Department of Veterans Affairs is offering bronze medallions to attach to existing, privately purchased headstones or markers, signifying a deceased's status as a veteran. The new item can be furnished instead of a traditional government headstone
