Operation Family Support
AP on January 30th, 2012
The Obama administration is proposing new rules to help military families care for service members when they are called to active duty or become injured. First lady Michelle Obama was set to join Labor Secretary Hilda Solis on Monday to announce the plan that updates the Family
Military Resources
AP on January 9th, 2012
TACOMA, Wash. - The Army says it's investigating the disappearance of "sensitive" equipment from nearby Joint Base Lewis-McChord. A 100-member infantry company has been locked down while the probe is underway, according to a website report by The (Tacoma) News Tribune. The company under investigation is from the 4th
Fort Lewis Blog
AP on February 6th, 2012
SEATTLE - Two doctors on a Madigan Army Medical Center team have been temporarily removed from clinical duties as the Army reviews the team's handling of post-traumatic stress disorder diagnoses of more than a dozen soldiers. Army officials did not name the doctors but confirmed they had
Fort Lewis Blog
AP on January 8th, 2012
OLYMPIA, Wash. - Despite pleas for leniency, a former Army Ranger has been sentenced to a decade in prison for a bar brawl stabbing that left a man injured. Family and friends of 22-year-old Alfred Joseph Sanchez pleaded with Thurston County Superior Court Judge Christine Pomeroy to
Fort Lewis Blog
AP on December 31st, 2011
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. - Joint Base Lewis-McChord saw more suicides in 2011 than any previous year. Twelve suicides were recorded at the base this past year. That's up from nine in 2010 and nine in 2009, The Tacoma News Tribune reported. Army I Corps spokesman Lt. Col. Gary Dangerfield says
Airlifter Blog
AP on April 12th, 2011
SEATTLE - The Museum of Flight won't get to display one of the retiring space shuttles, but Seattle's air and space museum will get a consolation prize of a full-scale training mock-up that looks like the space shuttle without wings. The museum near Boeing Field was one of 21 museum and science
Airlifter Blog
AP on March 23rd, 2011
SPOKANE, Wash. - Nearby Fairchild Air Force Base is sending KC-135 refueling tankers to assist in aerial refueling for U.S. and allied fighter jets enforcing the Libya no-fly zone. The 92nd Air Refueling Wing said five of the base's tankers left Saturday for North Africa, and another is due to leave
Fort Lewis Blog
AP on February 4th, 2011
FT. CARSON, Colo. -- An Army environmental study says Colorado's Fort Carson is the best location for a new combat aviation brigade. Members of Colorado's congressional delegation announced the findings Friday. The Army concluded that it favors consolidating aircraft of up to one combat aviation brigade at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington and
Fort Lewis Blog
AP on December 23rd, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) - Joseph Rocha reported being cruelly hazed by Navy colleagues. Katherine Miller resigned from West Point halfway through, weary of concealing her sexual orientation. David Hall was outed by a fellow Air Force cadet and booted from the career he loved. The exits from military service were wrenching consequences
Fort Lewis Blog
AP on December 22nd, 2010
SEATTLE - A Washington state flight nurse who sued to win reinstatement to the Air Force is planning to be there when President Obama signs a repeal of "don't ask, don't tell." Maj. Margaret Witt, of Spokane, was discharged just short of retirement after the Air Force learned she had been
Fort Lewis Blog
AP on December 10th, 2010
ABOARD A MILITARY AIRCRAFT - It's a long flight home from the battlefields of Afghanistan. But four soldiers traveling to see family for the holidays got an upgrade, courtesy of Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Normally, their leave would have started with a wait at the airport for the next available seat on
Airlifter Blog
AP on November 30th, 2010
SEATTLE -- A lesbian flight nurse who was discharged under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy says she expects to be reinstated to the U.S. Air Force reserve by next month at the latest. Maj. Margaret Witt and her attorneys held a news conference Tuesday at the American Civil Liberties Union
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