McChord Air Force Base News

Victor Ruiz has been looking for work since January. An Air Force pension helps, but it's not enough to keep his family afloat.

PORTLAND, Ore. Two hundred Northwest soldiers found out at the last minute they get to come home for the holidays before leaving for Afghanistan, but they've got to figure out how to pay for that trip themselves.

Pierce County organizers say the public should be prepared to take buses Tuesday to a Tacoma Dome memorial service for the four Lakewood police officers gunned down in the deadliest attack on law enforcement in state history.

On Tuesday, the Memorial Service for the four Lakewood Police officers will be held at the Tacoma Dome at 1 p.m. The procession will begin at approximately 10 a.m. at the McChord Air Force Base North Gate.

Trudie Overby, left, and her mother, Lee Stanley, watch events unfold on Sunday near the scene where four Lakewood Police officers were killed as they sat in a coffee shop near McChord Air Force Base.

Air Force Base. All 4 of the police officers are from the Lakewood police department.

An aerial view of the scene where a gunman burst into the Forza Coffee Shop Sunday Nov.

Explosions were heard today as police searching for the killer of four officers shot dead in a suburban coffee shop in Washington reportedly tried to flush a man out of a house in Seattle.

Four police officers were shot and killed in a coffee shop today in Parkland, Washington.

Can't see video? Update Adobe Flash Player Video may take a moment to load. US police are hunting a gunman who shot dead four police officers in a coffee shop in Washington state.

Four Seattle-area police officers were shot to death in a coffee shop Sunday morning in what officials called a brazen ambush by a lone gunman.

Victor Ruiz has been looking for work since January. An Air Force pension helps, but it's not enough to keep his family afloat.

Authorities in Washington are searching for the man who shot and killed four police officers in an early morning ambush at a coffee shop near McChord Air Force Base, in Tacoma.

A Washington state official says multiple police officers have been shot near McChord Air Force Base.

TACOMA, Wash. _ Tech. Sgt. Heather Normand of Tacoma has loaded a variety of cargo onto jets over the years: food, water, troops, toilet paper, generators, helicopters, Humvees and more.

Leaning forward in the classroom's rocking chair, U.S. Representative Dave Reichert had a message to impart: To live life with the heart of a servant.

Flags, families and thousands of veterans will be in Auburn on Saturday to honor Americaa TMs veterans at 44th Annual Veterans Day Observance and Parade.

Sketch drawing of a C-141 Star-Lifter on the runway with Mt. Rainier in the background at McChord Air Force Base.

Tech. Sgt. Alexander Almonte helps guide Nabil Salman and Abdqader Umer to assemble a cabinet by hand Oct.

About 120 members of McChord Air Force Base's 10th Airlift Squadron are scheduled to return today from a four-month deployment to the Middle East.