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January was a hard month for Washington state’s military community. It lost five service members who grew up here or served here to fighting in Afghanistan, the most casualties in a single month since July 2010 when seven were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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A Joint Base Lewis-McChord lieutenant from Wisconsin was killed in Afghanistan Wednesday while leading a foot patrol in Kandahar Province.

Zack and Sandi Brinson of Bloomfield are the parents of a daughter, Scarlett Grace , born Dec.