MAZOMANIE, Wis. — Matthew Graville couldn’t read well or remember numbers. He could drive his friends crazy with his incessant talking. But all he really wanted, by all accounts, was to fit in.
Staff Sgt. Rayvon Battle and Sgt. George Fuller once made a pact: If either soldier ever got hurt, the other would take care of the fallen man’s family.
The Senate this week passed an amendment that would reshape the Defense Department’s behavioral health and suicide prevention programs, compelling each service to adopt common practices.
An Army investigation glowingly endorses the Madigan Army Medical Center commander who temporarily lost his post this year amid complaints about inconsistencies in the hospital’s post-traumatic stress disorder diagnoses.
Spending the better part of a year under the Afghanistan sun has a way of making gray skies look lovely.
Bleary-eyed Stryker soldiers file into a Joint Base Lewis-McChord gym, standing straight despite their exhaustion from a flight taking them to the South Sound from the other side of the planet.
A decade of constant combat deployments is coming to an end at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, shifting the Army’s focus from the country’s longest war to new challenges along the Pacific Rim.
What one word sums up your feelings about your father coming home from war? Chelsea Riley picked up a marker pen to answer the question, but she couldn’t stop at a single word. A small essay poured out, describing how she missed Capt. Ian Riley during the holidays even as she looked forward to his return by Christmas.
With repeal last year of the “don’t ask, don’t tell law,” many military people, including senior leaders, assumed that married gay and lesbian couples had gained not only job security but also equality in allowances, benefits and access to family support programs. That assumption is wrong.
Joint Base Lewis-McChord’s detention center made the list of Defense Department prisons that theoretically could house Guantanamo inmates.
Jessica Klein has a lot on her mind when she sits beside her husband, Capt. Edward “Flip” Klein, at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland. The Stryker brigade officer from Joint Base Lewis-McChord lost three limbs when he stepped on a mine in Afghanistan last month, and the couple’s lives won’t ever be the same.
The House and the Senate will decide in the next few weeks how military pharmacy fees will be raised in 2013, a step that arguably will be the most significant taken to date to slow growth in military health care budgets.
The Montana Missoulian this week published an eye-witness account of an insider attack in Kandahar Province that killed a well-loved Joint Base Lewis-McChord intelligence soldier last month.
More than half of America’s veterans say they have little or no understanding of the benefits due them, despite efforts over recent years to match returning soldiers with the help and services they need.
Tacoma resident Amanda Arehart had resigned herself to not having her husband around for the birth of their second child Tuesday.
An annual exercise that brings thousands of Army officer cadets to Joint Base Lewis-McChord for a month of demanding drills could be moving to Kentucky, according to lawmakers lobbying to keep the program in the South Sound.
An annual exercise that brings thousands of Army officer cadets to Joint Base Lewis-McChord for a month of demanding drills could be moving to Kentucky, according to lawmakers who are lobbying to keep the program in the South Sound.
Joint Base Lewis-McChord’s highest-ranking officers on Friday endorsed a Pentagon review of ethics training for top leaders while they cast the scandals tarnishing the reputations of two of the country’s best-known generals as exceptions to Army standards.
A Joint Base Lewis-McChord Stryker brigade that just this month hit the ground in Afghanistan has lost the first soldier of this deployment.
The Congressional Budget Office has released a report on military compensation that puts a red laser dot on near-term pay raises, beneficiary health care fees and retirement of future forces as potential cost-saving targets Congress might want to consider in any debt-reduction deal.
A noncommissioned officer from a Joint Base Lewis-McChord Stryker brigade that just this month hit the ground in Afghanistan has died, the Defense Department announced today.
A wide-ranging review of behavioral health diagnoses at Madigan Army Medical Center closed in September with Army doctors changing more than half of the cases they evaluated, giving 150 service members new diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Sen. Patty Murray plans to leave her bully pulpit as chairwoman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and seek a greater role shaping federal spending as the leader of the Senate Budget Committee.
Spc. Brittany Gordon was a shy young woman with a lot to learn when she joined a military intelligence company two years ago at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. She left the company as a vital member of an intelligence team whose skill at making sense of threats in the volatile Afghan city around her compelled even full-bird colonels to seek her perspective in planning missions.
The Army has charged a soldier in an August homicide at Joint Base Lewis-McChord that the victim’s family said was the result of the soldier fatally stabbing his wife.
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