ETA News Release: Airmen and soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in...
(Source: Employment and Training Administration) ETA News Release: March 18, 2015 Contacts: Jason Kuruvilla Phone Number: (202) 693-6587 Email: Kuruvilla.Jason@dol.gov Release Number: 15-0464-NAT...
View ArticleFort Carson soldiers return from Ebola deployment
FORT CARSON, Colo. — About 150 Fort Carson soldiers deployed to West Africa in November to help build treatment...
View ArticleSoldier killed in training exercise in California
FORT IRWIN, Calif. — A soldier has died during a training exercise in Southern California. The...
View ArticleMoving to Yakima Valley can cause setbacks for soldiers at training center
SELAH (Tribune News Service) — When Alesha Adams’ husband, an Army sergeant, got his orders to transfer from Fort Polk, La., to the Yakima Training Center in February, they decided to wait until they...
View ArticleWestern wildfires: Soldiers turn into firefighters to help battle infernos
Montebello, California (CNN)You know the infernos are out of control when 25,000 firefighters aren't enough to stop them. Soldiers will join the ranks of firefighters as almost 100 raging wildfires...
View ArticleI Corps Pacific Pathways brings partner nations stateside to enhance...
(Source: The United States Army) WASHINGTON (Army News Service, April 19, 2016) -- This summer, for the first time, a Pacific Pathways iteration will involve bringing nations from the Pacific region to...
View ArticleAt 94, Grandmother Stays on Duty for Soldiers and Airmen (AAFES - Army and...
(Source: AAFES - Army and Air Force Exchange Service) JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD - At 94 years old, Julia Santiago is still young at heart. And, she says, a big part of her youthful spirit is her...
View ArticleJoint exercise prepares Airmen, Soldiers for contingency ops (USAF - United...
(Source: USAF - United States Air Force) LITTLE ROCK AIR FORCE BASE, Ark. (AFNS) -- Green Flag Little Rock 16-09 kicked off Aug. 18 with about 750 Army paratroopers jumping from several C-130J Super...
View ArticleLife after Combat: Training Veterans for Conservation Work at REPI Buffer...
(Source: NASDA - National Association of State Department of Agriculture) The Department of Defense (DoD)'s REPI Program is a key tool for combating encroachment that can limit or restrict military...
View ArticleWith 'Yudh Abhyas,' 7th Infantry Division welcomes Indian soldiers (The...
(Source: The United States Army) WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Sept. 14, 2015) -- For the first time in its 11-year history, Exercise Yudh Abhyas came to Joint Base Lewis-McChord, or JBLM, Washington,...
View Article'Nobody was that crazy': Documents show soldiers called Robert Bales...
Months before he committed an inexplicable massacre, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales showed a split personality to his fellow soldiers at a small outpost in Southern Afghanistan. As far as soldiers who...
View ArticleParatroopers Train to Fight ISIS, Even As U.S. Pledges 'No Boots On The Ground'
FORT POLK, La. -- Moments after landing in the blackness of a warm night and securing his parachute, Col. Joseph A. Ryan huddled on the drop zone with several of his officers. Radio messages crackled...
View ArticleApache helicopters arrive for training in Hawaii
Four Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopters arrived on island Wednesday as a training precursor to 24 of the wasp-like choppers being permanently based here in coming months. The arrival of the 16th...
View Article"Nobody was that crazy:" Documents show soldiers called Robert Bales...
Months before he committed an inexplicable massacre, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales showed a split personality to his fellow soldiers at a small outpost in Southern Afghanistan. As far as soldiers who...
View ArticleMassive rehearsal planned for Northwest mega-quake, tsunami
Staff Sergeant Andrew Waddell (top) and Master Sergeant Tyler Bates (bottom) both of the Washington Air National Guard based at Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane, Washington, on May 24, 2016, work to...
View ArticleI Corps soldiers head to Korea for annual war games
The commander of I Corps and about 400 personnel from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., are heading to the Korean peninsula to take part in U.S.-South Korean war games that kicked off this week. “I will...
View ArticleBudget constraints keep JBLM soldiers training closer to home
A budget squeeze stalled hundreds of Joint Base Lewis-McChord Stryker soldiers from hitting the high desert near Yakima for several weeks of training last summer and delivered a fresh reminder that...
View ArticleArmy to realign brigades, cut 40,000 Soldiers, 17,000 civilians (The United...
(Source: The United States Army) WASHINGTON (Army News Service, July 9, 2015) -- By the end of fiscal 2018, the active Army expects to have drawn down in size from 490,000 to 450,000, said Army...
View Article7th Infantry, 10th Mountain troops wrap up Afghan deployment training
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — Just days before President Barack Obama’s expected announcement to slow the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, a team of soldiers was wrapping up a training...
View ArticleLewis-McChord soldiers find common ground with visitors from Indian army
(Tribune News Service) — Sgt. Miguel Andrade was preparing a Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., infantry team for a morning exercise this week when a new friend from the Indian army pulled him aside to...
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