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All military spouses are invited to be members of the Joint Base Lewis-McChord Employment Readiness Program Military Spouse Career Committee. We'd like you to assist in guiding the Employment Readiness Program by letting us know what we can do to assist military spouses to get paying
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JBLM gate and road construction Liggett Avenue Public Works announced plans to shut down Liggett Avenue between Division and 12th Streets for 45 days of construction. The project start date depends on the contract, but PW expects work to begin by press time. The closure will include the intersection
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Bitar Avenue Electrical work on Bitar Avenue has shut down traffic between Lewis Drive and 9th Division Drive. Work started Monday and is scheduled to be completed Sept. 30. Limited access for local residents living on Foltz Place will be allowed at the intersection of Bitar
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Interested in running your own home-based business? Check out the Home Business Opportunity Fair: WED. SEPT 7, 9AM-2PM at the Chapel Support Center fellowship hall (Building 746, Jackson BLVD). For more info, call the Airman & Family Readiness Center: 253-982-2468.
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The paving work on 41st Division Drive has been postponed by the contractor until Monday due to weather. The section of 41st Division Drive will be closed through July 22 for road work between Ohio/Colorado avenues and Nevada/Tacoma avenues. Closure and detours will be effective from 6
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There will be a commemoration ceremony Tuesday at 2 p.m. on Joint Base Lewis-McChord Lewis North by Lake Sequalitchew at the monument marking the site where, on July 5, 1841, Capt. Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. celebrated the first Independence Day West of the Missouri River. Wilkes was
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Affiliated Computer Services, Inc, a Xerox Company, located in Lacey, will recruit customer service agents on the following Tuesdays: June 21, 28, July 12 and 26, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the JBLM Employment Readiness Program in the Army Community Services Annex, Building 2166
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Backpack into Ingall's Creek valley May 28-29: $75 Venture deep into a valley in the Central Cascades, following Ingall's Creek . Difficulty: moderate. Distance: 11 miles. Elevation gain: 1,450 feet Meet at the Northwest Adventure Center at Lewis North at 8:30 a.m. or McChord Field's Adventures Unlimited at 8:45 a.m. Pretrip
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Joint Base Lewis-McChord Directorate of Public Works announces a traffic diversion beginning Tuesday to facilitate players' participation in an I Corps mission readiness command post exercise. Drivers using Centerline Drive Gate will be required to detour around that section of Railroad Avenue that extends from the Battle Command Training Center campus
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The Military Spouse Career Committee invites spouses to become members to provide direct information about employment to assist in guiding them through Employment Readiness Program services. Meeting is June 7 at 1 p.m. For information, call 967-3538, 966-8325 or 967-7287.
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A new phase in the McChord Field Main Gate construction project on JBLM began Wednesday and is scheduled for completion May 2. Inbound traffic remains the same; outbound traffic is rerouted through the Main Gate canopy and winds around the Visitors Center. The D Street Gate on JBLM Lewis North The
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The theater at McChord Field has reopened for free weekend movies. See "Elmo in Grouchland" (G) at 4 p.m. today. For the complete schedule, visit www.JBLMmwr.com.
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The D Street Gate on JBLM Lewis North The contractor striped this week and should be finished by publication day. The next East Drive project plans repairs starting at the end of the D-Street widening to DuPont/Steilacoom Road requiring road closure, likely in July. The McChord Field Woodbrook Housing Gate has
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There will be an America's Corps Honors ceremony bidding farewell to Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Mathis, Brig. Gen. Peter C. Bayer and Brig. Gen. Heidi V. Brown on Monday at 10 a.m. in front of the main post flagpole, Building 2025 on Liggett Avenue, JBLM Lewis Main.
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JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. - The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Joint Base Lewis-McChord Soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Spc. Anthony A. Paci, 30, of Rockville, Md., died Mar. 4 at Gereshk, Afghanistan, of injuries suffered during a vehicle rollover. He was assigned
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The words "Army aviation" usually conjure up images of helicopters, laden with troops. However, the fixed-wing C-12 Huron is an unsung workhorse of cargo and personnel transport within the Army. Joint Base Lewis-McChord Regional Flight Center has two C-12s available as air assets for Soldier or cargo transport. Operational Support Airlift Command's commanding
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The Soldiers of the 47th Combat Support Hospital returned to Joint Base Lewis-McChord two weeks ago with the collective satisfaction of a job well done. They deployed to Iraq in early 2009 at a time integral to the development of a democracy; its Soldiers found themselves in a complex environment that
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Flashing red and blue lights signify the start of a traffic stop on Joint Base Lewis-McChord Lewis Main. Instead of a Military Police Soldier, an Air Force Staff Sergeant from the 62nd Security Forces, steps out of the cruiser, ticket book in hand. After all, the emblem on the patrol
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They came to retrace the steps of their ancestors. To see first hand "Yll-whaltz" or Muck Creek, where salmon have spawned for thousands of years. To journey past village sites and sacred burial grounds and walk along the Squally Plain, where Chief Leschi is said to have trained his warriors prior
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The initiation of Joint Base Lewis-McChord means more than the changing of a few signs. Soldiers donned Air Force blue coveralls last week as part of an ongoing personnel swap between the 555th Engineer Brigade and the 62nd Civil Engineer Squadron. The exchange aims to provide valuable training to junior enlisted Soldiers
