Fort Lewis News

Chloe Bollin stood on a chair and waved an American flag, hoping to spot the person who'd make this Fourth of July special.

Independence Day had an extra meaning for many soldiers who returned home to their families this holiday after more than a year in Iraq.

Hankinson was most recently the men's head coach at Division II power Ft. Lewis. He made a name for himself as head coach of Alabama A&M during its heyday as a D1 power and also coached at DePaul and Syracuse.

The body of Lt. Brian Bradshaw of Steilacoom, who died June 18 in Kheyl, Afghanistan, will come home today to Fort Lewis.

Fuel cell manufacturer Plug Power Inc. has won a $1.5 million contract to supply the U.S. Army's Forces Command in Fort Lewis, Wash., with 19 of its GenDrive fuel cells.

The Thurston County Sheriff's Office dive team fished out a car in the Nisqually River on Sunday afternoon.

Shalin Gala 757-622-7382 Fort Lewis, Wash. -- Today, PETA sent an urgent letter to Charles H. Jacoby Jr., the commander of Fort Lewis, after receiving a report from a whistleblower that goats who were stabbed and had their ribs cracked in training exercises at the military base were put in plastic bags and thrown away while they were still alive ...

The 16-year-old girl who survived a drug overdose from the same combination of pills that killed her teenage friend says the victim was the one who brought them to the Fort Lewis barrack.

A Fort Lewis private facing a possible court-martial in the death of his 16-year-old girlfriend had nothing to do with the girl's drug overdose, according to another girl who was there when it happened.

A Thurston County judge sentenced a Fort Lewis soldier who has served two tours of duty in Iraq to one year in prison Wednesday for selling 20 Ecstasy pills to an undercover informant last year.

A Fort Lewis chaplain who was critically injured by a roadside bomb five years ago in Iraq has died.

The infantry company approached unseen through the thick of the forest. Inside one building in the mock village on Fort Lewis sat the target of the day's raid.

A deployment ceremony at Fort Snelling will mark the departure of another group of soldiers from Minnesota in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

With a deafening bang, the mortar explodes. It's the kind of sound that stops thought and stuns the senses.

Nearly 4,000 soldiers of the 5th Stryker Brigade will begin leaving this month for a yearlong deployment to Afghanistan.

A wounded soldier has taken command of the Warrior Transition Battalion at Fort Lewis.

Lt. Col. Danny Dudek paced the dew-covered grass at Watkins Field in Fort Lewis, Wash., inspecting his troops during a ceremony marking a change of command for his unit.

The 42nd Military Police Brigade headquarters returned Friday from a 15-month deployment running the United States' largest detention center in Iraq, but its long-lasting effect on the country's security could take years to assess.

FORT LEWIS A $1.1 million simulator will help soldiers assigned to the three Stryker combat brigades based here make the most of their time before they deploy to combat by this fall.

For the Army's Stryker combat vehicle, the road to Afghanistan goes through the cargo bay of the Air Force's C-17 Globemaster.