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GRAB A CUP & READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 1.25.14 >>> More than 30 Reserve Airmen from the 446th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron are scheduled to deploy over the weekend in support of operations overseas. With no perceptible opposition from the Obama administration, Congress has quietly downscaled Washington's ambitions for the
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It's Friday. And what a perfect Friday it is! The sun is shining, and Joint Base Lewis-McChord isn't shutdown due to snow (whimpy Fort Hood!). But Friday is Friday, which means you all ready have one leg into Saturday. That stack of papers can wait. Let's watch some videos! You're welcome. Staff Sgt. Justin
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Yesterday the Winter X Games kicked off in Aspen, Colo. For alternative sports, this is the Olympics, if the Olympics featured guys on snowmobiles doing massive backflips. Snowmobile Freestyle competitor Colten Moore collected his second X Games gold medal yesterday, with an emotional win that he dedicated to his older
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Rangers from the 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, are conducting a military training exercise at Fort Hunter Liggett and neighboring Camp Roberts, of the California National Guard. The exercise runs through Feb. 5, and includes units from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, from Fort
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THIS JUST IN >>> The Fort Hood senior commander has authorized the closure of Fort Hood due to the current weather conditions. Only mission essential report for the duty.
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GRAB A CUP & READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 1.24.14 >>> Explosions apparently targeting Egypt's police force - including its headquarters in Cairo - kill five people and wound around 90. The White House has given the Defense Department budget guidance through 2019 that calls for more money after 2015 than congressional
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Just a quick heads up if you're a fan of both roller derby and Instagram - darth_saydious of the JBLM Bettie Brigade posts the latest action from the flat track. Side note: The JBLM Bettie Brigade's Belle Ringer Bootcamp is designed to help you prepare for the WFTDA skills test and
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As previously mentioned, the 3-2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 7th Infantry Division, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord is at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif, participating large-scale, conventional warfare training with offensive and defensive operations.
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Southern California's National Training Center is one of two Army sites in the States that plunges units into elaborate deployment scenarios, complete with role-players, who play civilians or enemy combatants. Units are evaluated 24 hours a day by veteran soldiers called observer-coach-teachers, or OCs. NTC trains the soldiers by conducting
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GRAB A CUP & READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 1.23.14 >>> Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) told reporters Wednesday that he was eyeing overseas contingency operations to pay for most - if not all - of the $30 billion veterans omnibus bill he introduced last week, which includes
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It's easy to get careless during the holidays. For those lucky enough to grab time off from work, year-end exhaustion can cause bad decisions, especially with an increase in travel. According to Natalie Eslinger of the Air Force Safety Center Public Affairs, Air Force Airmen there were no Airmen lost between
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GRAB A CUP & READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 1.22.14 >>> Syria's government set a bitter tone today at the opening of talks meant to end the country's long and bloofy civil war, accusing Arab neighbors of sowing terrorism and insurrection while dismissing as interlopers the United States and other Western
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The Pierce County prosecutor charged a Puyallup man with second-degree murder Tuesday in the stabbing death of Sgt. 1st class Shawn A. Woods, who intervened in a domestic violence assault Sunday. Woods, 38, was a member of Troop A, 8th Squadron, 1st Calvary Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division
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Dear Pentagon: It's over. Done. Stop tweeting #iheartblackberry. Listen to the guy in Ring B off Corridor 1: "Dudes! OMG! Lose your Blackberry phones! Just got my iPhone 5s and it's hella sick, like a laser on a B-1 Bomber wrapped in bacon delivered by Marcus Luttrell on the backs
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The Army is considering the feasibility of shrinking the size of the brigade combat team from about 4,000 soldiers to 3,000 over the coming years, and replacing the lost soldiers with robots and unmanned platforms. The United Nations revoked an invitation to Iran to attend a crucial peace conference on Syria
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While the South Sound cheered on the Seahawks to victory (OK, maybe not exactly game time), two U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft out of McChord Field airlifted a Rwandan mechanized battalion, per request of the French government and African Union authorities continued airlifting a Rwandan mechanized battalion. According to
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GRAB A CUP AND READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 1.20.14 >>> An assault by suicide bombers and gunmen against a NATO base in southern Afghanistan today killed one servicemember. After a night of vicious streets battles, anti-government protesters and police clashed anew today in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. A coalition servicemember was
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GRAB A CUP & READ THE MORNING REPORT FOR 1.18.14 >>> President Barack Obama Friday announced a series of reforms for a controversial National Security Agency data-collection program that he said would give Americans confidence their privacy is being protected and allow U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies to continue safeguarding
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GRAB A CUP & AND READ THE MORINING REPORT FOR 1.17.14 >>> Obama has presided over a huge surge in special operations, vastly out-pacing Bush. The US Senate passed a government-wide spending measure that would give the Pentagon nearly $600 billion to buy new weapons, address readiness problems and fight America's wars.
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Here is what we know about the National Guard: The National Guard was formed in the 17th century as the militia of the colonists in North America. National Guard soldiers have fought in every U.S. war since 1637. Other reserve groups have no affiliation with the National Guard, such as the Army Reserve. Each
