Fort Lewis News

An ROTC cadet has died in a night ground navigation exercise at Fort Lewis in Washington.

A Deployment Ceremony will take place at the Cottage Grove Ice Arena on Friday for 82 Soldiers from the Cottage Grove-based 204th Area Support Medical Company.

Over 300 soldiers of the 14th Engineer Battalion returned home to Fort Lewis to reunite with family and friends in time for the fourth of July.

Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Washington -- On the day of the largest one-day death toll in months for U.S. troops in Afghanistan, military officials and experts warned that the American public should brace for rising casualties as thousands of additional American troops pour into the region to confront a resurgent Taliban.

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.