JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – The Sesame Street/USO Experience forMilitary Families will visit Joint Base Lewis-McChord Aug. 25 and 26, conducting two free performances for military families. The show is based on Sesame Workshop’s award winning Talk, Listen,Connect initiative, which offers significant resources for military families with young children who are experiencing the effects ofdeployment, [...]
Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. – Joint Base Lewis-McChord will host the installation’s annual Surviving Family Members Appreciation Day Friday, Aug. 13, from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the American Lake Community Center. The JBLM Surviving Family Member Appreciation Day was created to honor surviving family members by recognizing their contributions to our country. The [...]
MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Tacoma, Wash. – The Warrior Transition Battalion on Joint Base Lewis-McChord will host the Western Region Medical Command U.S. Paralympic Regional “Train the Trainer” Event from August 15-17. The camp will train approximately 40 staff members from 12 different warrior transition units on how to implement adaptive sports programs designed to [...]
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. The 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division’s command team and more than 200 Soldiers assignedto the brigade, will return to Joint Base Lewis-McChord on August 6. Col. Dave E. Funk and Command Sgt. Major Alan D. Bjerke, along with approximately 200 of their Soldiers, are expected to be welcomed [...]
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – Joint Base Lewis-McChord leaders willrecognize individuals whose selfless service has supported the JBLM community by inducting three distinguished volunteers into its Civilian Hall of Fame in a ceremony to take place Thursday, Aug. 5 at 11:30 a.m., at the American Lake Club on JBLM-Lewis North. Vicky Mohler will be recognized [...]
Hole No. 3 at American Lake Veterans Golf Course, considered the course’s “signature” hole,” was dedicated as the “Medal of Honor” hole during a special event on June 25. The recognition honors recipients of the Medal of Honor, the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. Two local Medal of Honor recipients were [...]
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – Approximately 150 Soldiers assigned to the 66th Military Police Company will be re-united with family and friends during a redeployment ceremony at approximately 8 p.m. at Soldiers Field House on JBLM Lewis Main Thursday. The company deployed in July 2009 to Baqubah, Iraq, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. During [...]
Confederate General Robert E. Lee once wrote in a letter to his wife, “What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate [...]
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – Joint Base Lewis-McChord will formally welcome home the Soldiers of the 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division during a Redeployment and Change of Command Ceremony on Thursday, July 22, at 10 a.m. on Watkins Field. The 5th Stryker Brigade (also known as the “Strike and Destroy” brigade) was [...]
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – Atlantic Records recording artist and American Idol performer Jason Castro and Seattle Seahawks defensive back Jamar Adams will be flying with the ―Patriot Jets,‖ a civilian jet acrobatic team, Thursday afternoon out of the Olympia Airport. The Patriot Jets are the marquee act for this weekend’s Joint Base Lewis-McChord Air [...]
