Military Life
One rose print dress looked made for a flamenco dancer, another adorned with sequins had 1980's style. Inside an infantry company operations building, spouses of deployed Soldiers browsed racks of gently used formal dresses ready for new owners. The family readiness group of 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry
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Private First Class Jesus Hafen was fumbling a little with the magazine, until he figured out he was trying to put it into the weapon backwards. It was a weapon that would take some getting used to, but that was exactly the point of the day's training
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JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. - Laying on his side across an exam table, Spc. Enrique Rivera winced as the metal instrument raked the length of his outer thigh repeatedly. In the hands of Staff Sgt. Adam Lautenschlager, the butter knife-like implement is used for physical therapy. "This is an instrument-assisted soft
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Lying on his side across an exam table, Spc. Enrique Rivera winced as the metal instrument raked the length of his outer thigh repeatedly. In the hands of Staff Sgt. Adam Lautenschlager, the butter knife-like implement is used for physical therapy. "This is an instrument-assisted soft tissue
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On Tuesday, those who work and live at Joint Base Lewis-McChord took time to remember the events of September 11, 2001, at several observances. Fire stations on JBLM took a moment of silence at 5:46 a.m.(PST), the time the first plane hit the World Trade Center
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JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. - "I am very proud to give a reverent tribute to those who came before us, who paved the way for women to live with more pride, ambition, freedom and opportunity," said Col. Cathleen M. Nelson, supervising nurse case manager for the Warrior
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JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. - Restoration on the Lewis Army Museum building itself is finished, now the galleries and exhibits within need to be reconstituted. Currently the museum is open to the public Thursday through Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. and for scheduled tour groups
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Soldiers in gas masks and dull gray chemical hazard suits line up to be scrubbed down and rinsed off at adjacent stations set up like an assembly line. They are the 547th Area Support Medical Company, role playing personnel who have been exposed to hazardous materials. The
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Soldiers assigned to the 201st Battlefield Surveillance Brigade trained on new equipment used by signals intelligence analysts in preparation for deployment. Among other duties, these Soldiers from both the 502nd and 109th Military Intelligence battalions specialize in collecting and analyzing intercepted enemy communications. Last month they
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Fourteen students from Rogers High School in Puyallup, Wash., visited JBLM March 9 to learn about careers in the medical field offered through the U.S. Army. It was an opportunity provided by the school's Health Occupations Students Association (HOSA) program, a national student organization that
