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When you ask Mariah Smiley what she does for fun, her pause is a little long for a 17-year-old girl. It's not that she's boring. During the school year she goes to Woodinville High School where she'll be a senior next year. She takes college classes a few
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Firefighter Will Odom will tell you that this isn't his first rodeo. He and a team of four other experienced Joint Base Lewis-McChord firefighters and one firefighter paramedic left for Fort Carson, Colo. Saturday, where they will help relieve teams that have been stretched
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When you think "summer camp," bingo and karaoke might not be the first thoughts that come to mind. But at Joint Base Lewis-McChord's 2012 Army Community Services Exceptional Family Member Program Camp, those activities and more will be available for program participants and their families. "There's so
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Second Lt. Travis A. Morgado, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, was relentless. As a 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division platoon leader, he made sure everyone was familiar with operations orders and had rehearsed battle drills regardless of whether or not they were going on the mission. His
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It's not every race that starts with an announcer asking squads to tighten up their formations - but it's a pretty standard way to kick off the Sound to Narrows Military Run each year. This year's run marked a resurgence in numbers that organizers are hoping will become a
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Every night for the last month, a group of birds has circled a chimney on Joint Base Lewis-McChord just before sunset. It starts with just a few, but more and more join them as they swoop around their target - and then, as it finally gets dark,
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Dining facility hours expanded earlier this month on Joint Base Lewis-McChord's Lewis North and Lewis Main. The changes, which include certain mess halls being open later in the day and a new brunch feeding window on weekends, came only shortly before Installation Management Command recommended that nearly 25
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Once, on a kayaking trip with his buddies, Sgt. Nicholas Dickhut saw a tree probably 14-inches thick and decided he would cut it down with the small hatchet he had packed along. His friends, Sgt. Martin LePage and Sgt. Tyler Jenkins, laughed and went to set up camp.
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When Buddy Lee's father came back from the Vietnam War, he was never quite the same. His mom was the primary caregiver for the family's six kids, and life was stressful at times. But then Lee discovered athletics and his whole life changed. "Sports saved my life," he said
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Walking along the upstairs hallway of Joint Base Lewis-McChord's Western Region Foreign Language Training Center, visitors might encounter a neat row of desert boots lined up against the wall. Each pair represents a Soldier in the model Afghan living room just on the other side of the
