Yakima Training Center News

More Green Berets are headed to Fort Lewis. The Army announced Thursday the planned activation of a new battalion of the 1st Special Forces Group .

A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A The Army announced today the planned activation of the 4th Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group.A This force structure action represents a net increase of 432 military authorizations and four civilian authorizations at Fort Lewis, Wash., and two civilian authorizations at Yakima Training Center, Wash.A Implementation of ...

Led by a color guard, Marines and soldiers carrying banners that recognized their fallen comrades marched with their eyes straight ahead at the front of Wednesday's annual Veterans Day parade in Yakima.

Nov. 9--YAKIMA, Wash. -- Marines and soldiers will carry banners recognizing their fallen comrades, including several from the Yakima Valley, in the city's Veterans Day parade on Wednesday.

A small pipe bomb exploded when a military team tried to render it safe on Thursday, city police said.

A Quincy, Wash., man was honored Thursday at the Yakima Training Center for making more than 200 quilts for wounded military members from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

About 100 Marines reserves are returning to Yakima after serving several months in Iraq.

Forty years later, soldiers of the 737th Transportation Company will finally get the medals and ribbons they earned during the Vietnam War.

Forty years later, the soldiers of the 737th Transportation Company will receive the medals and ribbons they earned from service in the Vietnam War.

Forty years later, soldiers of the 737th Transportation Company will finally get the medals and ribbons they earned during the Vietnam War.

The first planeload of 81st Brigade soldiers from Eastern Washington is scheduled to arrive in Spokane today, the National Guard says.

Fort Lewis The man who will run daily operations of Fort Lewis is no stranger to the area: Col.

The National Guard's 81st Brigade is preparing to return home to Washington after nine months of service in Iraq, although an exact date has not been announced.

They destroyed the devices shortly after 3pm Tuesday afternoon. It is not known whether they were explosives, but authorities did not want to take any chances.

Since 2006, Yakima's War on Terrorism Memorial has been dismantled and carted away by thieves, fished out of the Yakima River by local police, and welded back together by off-duty soldiers.

The former commander of the ROTC program at Oregon State University took charge of the Yakima Training Center on Thursday.

The death train still haunts him. It had arrived two or three days before he did, during the final week of World War II.

Dee Eberhart used to hear the guns go off at the Training Center when he was growing up in Toppenish.

There's a guy up in Ellensburg who was part of the Army regiment that discovered and liberated the Dachau concentration camp in World War II.

National Guard armories in Ellensburg and Toppenish will be closed immediately to help deal with budget cutbacks, the state Military Department announced Thursday.