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Doolittle Raider 70th anniversary celebration
The 70th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid was commemorated at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force on Wednesday. Four of the five surviving crew members attended the ceremony.
2 JBLM soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Two Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldiers were killed last week after being wounded by an enemy improvised explosive device, the base said in a news release. First Lt. Sean Jacobs, 23, from Redding, California, was on his first deployment. Sgt. John Hansen, 41, of Austin, Texas, was also killed. This was ...
Soldier arrested in Seattle for groping, hot dog assault
A Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier was arrested Saturday night after police said he groped several women, assaulted a parking lot security guard and threw a hot dog at the guard. The security guard called police at about 11:15 p.m. and said he saw the man grope four women in a ...
JBLM soldier killed in Afghanistan; 3rd such death in a week
A Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier was killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday, becoming the third JBLM soldier to be killed in that country in the last week. Spc. Sterling W. Wyatt, of Columbia, Missouri, was 21 years old. Wyatt died of wounds suffered when his vehicle was hit by an improvised ...
JBLM soldier dies in Afghanistan
A Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier was killed July 4 in Afghanistan on his fifth deployment, the Department of Defense announced Monday. Staff Sgt. Raul Guerra, 37, was with the 201st Battlefild Surveillance Brigade. The Army was not specific about the details of his death. From our partners at The News ...
Teen's photo of soldier reading to child online goes viral
A photo of a U.S. soldier reading to a child over the internet at a Lakewood bookstore went viral late last month, and now an effort is afoot to figure out who the soldier is. KIRO 7 partners The News Tribune reported that 16-year-old Hannah Pancho snapped the photo while ...
Charges dropped for JBLM officer accused of trying to hire hit man to kill wife
Charges were dropped Friday for a Joint Base Lewis-McChord officer accused of trying to hire a hit-man to kill his wife. Prosecutors said the main witness in the case against Lt. Col. Robert Underwood was not credible. Philip Thornton, Underwood's defense attorney, said their contention was that Underwood was innocent, ...
JBLM soldier returns from Afghanistan to meet 17-year-old daughter for the first time
As 160 soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord returned home after a year in Afghanistan, one of them returned to a new arrival – not a baby, but a 17-year-old daughter he never met before Monday. While deployed in Afghanistan, Staff Sgt. Steve Oslin was contacted by an ex-girlfriend, who told ...
1 murder charge dropped against JBLM soldier accused of killing Afghan civilians
The Army dropped one charge of premediated murder against Staff Sgt. Robert Bales on Friday and amended the list of total charges against him, Joint Base Lewis-McChord said. The 38-year-old father of two from Lake Tapps is accused of leaving a U.S. military post on March 11, killing now 16 ...
Report: JBLM soldier killed in Afghanistan
News outlets in Minnesota reported Monday that a Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier was killed in Afghanistan on Sunday, but so far no official word has come from the base or the Department of Defense, KIRO 7 news partner The News Tribune reported. Army Sgt. Nicholas Dickhut, 23, was killed during ...
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