Fort Lewis News

A soldier from Silver Spring, in Iraq less than a month, was killed in Mosul on Thursday when his unit came under small-arms fire.

It was supposed to be an easy mission: The Fort Lewis soldiers would load their Strykers with water and food for another platoon, ferry it to a combat outpost and return home.

A soldier assigned to the 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, at Fort Lewis was killed Tuesday in a bomb explosion in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

" Thousands of returning service members will have access to a streamlined disability claims system at Fort Lewis Army Medical Center because of a pilot program that U.S. Senator Patty Murray helped pass into law.

Though they'll be thousands of miles apart for the holidays, the families of service members based at Fort Lewis in Washington are reaching out to the ...

The Department of Transportation is reporting a collision that blocked the left lane of southbound Interstate 5 in Pierce County Monday morning is now clear.

The commander of the Army Western Regional Medical Command will soon leave Fort Lewis to become the Army's deputy surgeon general, the Pentagon announced this week.

This morning we take a moment to remember a Northwest soldier who was recently killed in Afghanistan.

Nearly 500 wounded soldiers are spending this Veterans Day in rehab at Fort Lewis.

The body of Spc. Aaron Aamot of Custer, who was killed Nov. 5 while serving in Afghanistan, will arrive at Bellingham International Airport on Thursday, Nov.

In a Veterans Day ceremony that gave a glimpse of a Fort Lewis unit rarely seen publicly, hundreds of soldiers from 1st Special Forces Group gathered Wednesday to honor their two most recent fallen comrades.

This week will be the last chance for visitors to drop by the Fort Lewis Military Museum before it closes for renovation on Nov.

Lowering our flags to half-staff seems to be an all too familiar sight across our nation these days.

FORT LEWIS, Wash. Two Fort Lewis Strykers, one of whom was from Whatcom County, were killed by enemy forces in Afghanistan Thursday.

Some of the U.S. Army's best spies recently departed Fort Lewis for Iraq, where they will help teach the Iraqi military how to play spy games at a high level too.

A Fort Lewis soldier has died in Iraq -- during her third deployment to the region.

Pfc. Brian Russell Bates loved bragging about his home state of Louisiana, and never tired of telling his fellow soldiers about how he had survived Hurricane Katrina.

President Obama's decision on deploying more troops to Afghanistan has been complicated by an ugly reality: suicide.

All the criminal cases filed in the wake of the Port of Olympia protests nearly two years ago were resolved Friday after eight demonstrators signed agreements that could lead to dismissal of their charges.

President Barack Obama, center, Army Assistant Judge Advocate Maj. Gen. Daniel Wright, second from right and Army Special Forces Commander Brig.