Army
Edmonds artist remembers fallen soldiers with sketches
For the past eight years, Edmonds artist Michael Reagan has been sketching free portraits of U.S. service members who have lost their lives in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in the wars against terrorism.
Date: 05/28/2012 | Local News
AWOL Muslim soldier guilty in Fort Hood bomb plot
WACO, Texas -- A federal jury on Thursday convicted a Muslim soldier on six charges in connection with a failed plot to blow up a Texas restaurant full of Fort Hood troops, his religious mission to get “justice” for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Date: 05/24/2012 | Nation & World
Soldier faces murder charges in Iraq base deaths
SEATTLE -- Murder charges have been filed against a sergeant accused of killing four other soldiers and a Navy officer in May 2009 at a mental health clinic in Iraq, the Army said Friday.
Date: 05/18/2012 | Northwest
Survivors of Afghan massacre recall horror of GI's assault
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- It was early in the morning, perhaps 2 a.m., when gunfire awoke 14-year-old Rafiullah.
Date: 05/17/2012 | Nation & World
GI killed in Vietnam War gets Medal of Honor
WASHINGTON — Leslie Sabo's Vietnam War ended in the flash of his own grenade, hurled at an enemy bunker in Cambodia to save surrounded comrades. Forty years later — and a dozen years after the long-lost paperwork turned up in military archives — he was honored by President Obama...
Date: 05/16/2012 | Nation & World
Apache helicopter squadron arriving at JBLM
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD -- The first 10 Apache helicopters from a squadron moving from Fort Hood, Texas, are scheduled to land Friday at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
Date: 05/10/2012 | Northwest
House Republicans OK $5 billion antimissile site
WASHINGTON -- The House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday backed construction of a missile defense site on the East Coast, rejecting Pentagon arguments that the facility is unnecessary and Democratic complaints that the nearly $5 billion project amounts to wasteful spending in a time of tight...
Date: 05/10/2012 | Nation & World
Wife Skyping with soldier saw bullet hole in wall
DALLAS -- An Army nurse showed no alarm or discomfort before suddenly collapsing during a Skype video chat with his wife, who saw a bullet hole in a closet behind him after his collapse, his family said Sunday.
Date: 05/06/2012 | Nation & World
State-based soldier investigated for luring girls
SEATTLE -- The Washington State Patrol is investigating allegations that a Joint Base Lewis McChord soldier lured underage girls through Facebook and blackmailed them into giving up nude pictures.The state Patrol said the 24-year-old soldier is currently stationed overseas.
Date: 05/04/2012 | Northwest
Lawyer in Afghan slayings case objects to background check
SEATTLE -- The lead civilian lawyer for a U.S. soldier accused of massacring 17 Afghan villagers in March doesn't want to undergo a background check.
Date: 05/03/2012 | Northwest
Pilot error blamed for Lewis-McChord helicopter collision
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD -- An investigation into December's collision of two helicopters from Joint Base Lewis-McChord cites pilot and air traffic control errors and "dark spots" in aviation communication.
Date: 05/01/2012 | Northwest
Local veterans support accused soldier's family
TACOMA -- A local veterans group has been raising money to support the wife and children of Sgt. Robert Bales, the U.S. soldier accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians.
Date: 04/29/2012 | Nation & World
Top battlefield chefs
Competition tests kitchen skills of reservist cooks
Date: 04/24/2012 | Local News
Army roots out heroin using soldiers in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Army has investigated 56 soldiers in Afghanistan on suspicion of using or distributing heroin, morphine or other opiates during 2010 and 2011, newly obtained data shows. Eight soldiers died of drug overdoses during that time.
Date: 04/22/2012 | Nation & World
Lynnwood soldier dies at Texas Army base
A 20-year-old soldier from Lynnwood died Thursday of apparent natural causes at Fort Hood, Texas.Army Spc. Joshua Aaron Martin was in the hospital when he died, an Army spokesman said. He declined to give any more details about the manner of death.
Date: 04/20/2012 | Local News
WWII’s Doolittle Raiders mark 70 years
DAYTON, Ohio -- A flyover by World War II bomber planes, Chinese visitors and a memorial ceremony with four Doolittle's Raiders helped mark the 70th anniversary Wednesday of the daring U.S. air attack on Japan.
Date: 04/19/2012 | Nation & World
Army denies clemency in 2010 'thrill kill' case
SEATTLE -- The Army has denied early release for a soldier who tried to blow the whistle on a plot to kill Afghan civilians in 2010, only to later be convicted in the plot himself.
Date: 04/18/2012 | Northwest
Lewis-McChord soldier killed in Afghanistan
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Conn. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says a Connecticut native killed in Afghanistan last week will be honored by his home state.
Date: 04/16/2012 | Northwest
Warriors' weekend
Marysville reservists compete to determine the top soldier
Date: 04/14/2012 | Local News
Army weapon found in Pierce County home
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD -- Joint Base Lewis-McChord says an anti-tank weapon that was found at a home in Pierce County is not from the Army base.Spokesman Gary Dangerfield said Wednesday the base checked its inventory of M72 weapons for the past five years and none are missing.
Date: 04/12/2012 | Northwest
Army commissions new training center in Marysville
MARYSVILLE -- City officials, soldiers and their families Sunday celebrated the official opening of a $33 million Army facility.
Date: 04/02/2012 | Local News
Another Stryker brigade heads to Afghanistan
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD -- Joint Base Lewis-McChord will hold a deployment ceremony Friday for the 2nd Stryker Brigade as about 4,000 soldiers start heading to Afghanistan for a nine-month tour.
Date: 03/29/2012 | Northwest
Sergeant gets 10 years for setting fire to wife's legs
OLYMPIA -- An Army sergeant has been given a 10-year sentence for setting his wife's legs on fire with lighter fluid and a match.
Date: 03/27/2012 | Northwest
Afghan father tries to cope after shooting rampage
HARMARA, Afghanistan -- Mohammad Wazir can barely take a sip of water because it reminds him of his 7-year-old daughter, who brought him a glass three days before she was killed with 10 other loved ones in a shooting spree allegedly carried out by a U.S. soldier in southern Afghanistan.
Date: 03/24/2012 | Nation & World
Soldier to be charged Friday
WASHINGTON -- Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales will be charged with 17 counts of murder as well as assault and a string of other offenses in the massacre of Afghan villagers as they slept, a U.S. official said Thursday.
Date: 03/22/2012 | Nation & World
Suspect in Afghan case a profile in contradictions
Robert Bales boasted of being one of the good guys, a proud patriot who enlisted in the Army just two months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and engaged in some of the fiercest fighting in Iraq.
Date: 03/21/2012 | Nation & World
Lewis-McChord officer charged with felony harassment
TACOMA — An Army officer in Washington state threatened to blow up the state capitol and kill his superior officer, his estranged wife and his girlfriend, authorities said Tuesday, adding scrutiny to the troubled base of a soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians in a shooting...
Date: 03/13/2012 | Northwest
Vigil near Lewis-McChord for Afghan victims canceled
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD -- Organizers of a vigil that had been planned near Joint Base Lewis-McChord Monday evening for victims of an Afghan shooting spree have canceled it to avoid appearing anti-military.
Date: 03/12/2012 | Northwest
No arrest after no bomb found in car at Lewis-McChord
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD -- Military police have released a soldier who was detained earlier Friday after he said he had an explosive device in his parked car at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
Date: 03/02/2012 | Northwest
Wednesday service at Lewis-McChord for soldier killed in Afghanistan
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD -- A memorial service will be held Wednesday at Joint Base Lewis-McChord for a soldier who was killed in Afghanistan.The Army said 24-year-old 1st Lt. David A. Johnson, of Horicon, Wis., was killed Jan. 25 by a homemade bomb while on foot patrol in Kandahar province.
Date: 02/14/2012 | Northwest
Army investigating Madigan memo on PTSD costs
SEATTLE -- The Army is investigating whether the cost of care and benefits is influencing the diagnosis of soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder at Madigan Army Medical Center, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
Date: 02/07/2012 | Northwest
Army removes 2 Madigan doctors from clinic duties
SEATTLE -- Two doctors on a Madigan Army Medical Center team have been temporarily removed from clinical duties as the Army reviews the team's handling of post-traumatic stress disorder diagnoses of more than a dozen soldiers.
Date: 02/04/2012 | Northwest
Charges dropped against soldier in Afghan deaths
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD -- The Army on Friday dropped all charges against the fifth soldier it had accused of killing Afghan civilians for sport during a 2010 deployment.
Date: 02/03/2012 | Northwest
Army reviewing Madigan soldiers' diagnosis changes
SEATTLE -- The Army has begun a top-level review of a Madigan Army Medical Center team's decision to reverse the post-traumatic stress disorder diagnoses of more than a dozen soldiers.
Date: 01/27/2012 | Northwest
Lewis-McChord soldier killed in Afghanistan
MAYVILLE, Wis. -- The family of a Wisconsin soldier killed in Afghanistan will travel to Dover Air Force base in Delaware where the body of 1st Lt. David Johnson is due to arrive.
Date: 01/26/2012 | Northwest
Army plans to reduce number of combat brigades
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Army plans to slash the number of combat brigades from 45 to as low as 32 in a broad restructuring of its fighting force aimed at cutting costs and reducing the service by about 80,000 soldiers, according to U.S. officials familiar with the plans.
Date: 01/26/2012 | Nation & World
Tuskegee Airmen film ‘Red Tails’ screened at White House
WASHINGTON -- Star Wars creator George Lucas may have had a tough time getting Hollywood interested in a movie about the Tuskegee Airmen, but he has the attention of President Barack Obama.
Date: 01/14/2012 | Nation & World
Slain soldier had local ties
A former soldier who was killed in a high-profile double homicide in Georgia earlier this month has Snohomish County ties.A funeral for Michael Roark, 19, is planned Saturday in Shoreline. His family in the area has asked for privacy.
Date: 12/15/2011 | Local News
Each inmate at Guantanamo costs U.S. $800,000 a year
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Guards get combat pay, just like troops in Afghanistan, without the risk of being blown up. Some commanders get to bring their families to this war-on-terror deployment. And each captive gets $38.45 worth of food a day.
Date: 11/11/2011 | Nation & World
4,000 U.S. troops will remain in Kuwait
WASHINGTON — While all but a small number of U.S. troops will be out of Iraq by the end of the year, they won't all be home for the holidays as President Barack Obama promised last month.
Date: 11/03/2011 | Nation & World
3 soldiers die in Afghanistan
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD -- Three U.S. soldiers were killed Saturday in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, including two based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
Date: 10/23/2011 | Northwest
U.S. ventures into bloody Africa conflict
WASHINGTON — The United States is venturing into one of Africa's bloodiest conflicts, sending about 100 U.S. troops to central Africa to support a years-long fight against a guerrilla group accused of horrific atrocities.
Date: 10/14/2011 | Nation & World
A decision too late for them
Maltby couple, both veterans, praise end of 'don't ask, don't tell'
Date: 09/30/2011 | Local News
Active Duty: News of county residents in the military
Army National Guard Lt. Col. Cynthia Millonzi, formerly of Camano Island, has been selected to serve in a leadership position as director of manpower under Maj. Gen. John Nichols at Camp Mabry, Austin, Texas. She is experienced in personnel and human resources. She served in the Army from 1984-88,...
Date: 09/12/2011 | Local News
New Stryker vehicles deflecting bombs better
TACOMA -- A new version of the Army's eight-wheeled Stryker vehicle is deflecting bombs better, according to military officials, who say soldiers driving the new armored combat vehicle are walking away from large roadside bombs in Afghanistan.
Date: 08/29/2011 | Northwest
Army Ranger's widow expelled from book signing
TACOMA -- Two people were removed from a Donald Rumsfeld book signing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, including the Yelm widow of an Army Ranger who blames the military for her husband's suicide.
Date: 08/29/2011 | Northwest
Active Duty
Navy Seaman Riley M. Barnes, son of Michelle and Eric Barnes of Mukilteo, recently completed basic training at the U.S. Navy Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill. Barnes received honors in the program.
Date: 08/29/2011 | Local News
Year after returning from Iraq, Fort Lewis Stryker brigade gets assignment to Afghanistan
TACOMA -- The countdown's on for more than 3,200 soldiers in Joint Base Lewis-McChord's 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division.
Date: 08/27/2011 | Northwest
Active Duty: News about county residents in the armed forces
Marine Corps Chief Warrant Officer Johnny Cort was promoted to his current rank Aug. 1. He is based at Camp LeJeune, N.C. Cort attended Mariner and ACES high schools. He is the son of Muriel Cort of Edmonds and William Cort of Everett.
Date: 08/15/2011 | Local News
Taliban controls valley where 30 U.S. troops died Saturday
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The 30 U.S. troops who died Saturday in the U.S. military's single biggest loss of the Afghan war, were operating in a Taliban-controlled valley where frequent U.S.-led night raids have won the insurgents popular support, area residents said Sunday.
Date: 08/07/2011 | Nation & World
Soldier suspected in terror plot acts out in court
WACO, Texas — Coolly defiant, Pfc. Naser Abdo shouted "Nidal Hasan Fort Hood 2009!" as he was led out of the courtroom Friday, an apparent homage to the suspect in the worst mass shooting ever on a U.S. military installation. He condemned the attack less than a year ago, but is now accused of...
Date: 07/30/2011 | Nation & World
Terror-plot soldier defiant in court
WACO, Texas — An AWOL soldier accused of plotting to launch an attack on Fort Hood was defiant during his first court appearance on Friday, yelling out the name of the Army psychiatrist blamed in the 2009 deadly shooting rampage at the same Texas base.
Date: 07/29/2011 | Nation & World
Army amputee thrown from roller coaster, dies
DARIEN, N.Y. — A U.S. Army veteran who lost both legs in Iraq and had been trying to rebuild his life was killed after he was thrown from a roller coaster at an upstate New York amusement park.
Date: 07/09/2011 | Nation & World
Court-martial for Fort Lewis soldier accused of assault of fellow soldier in Afghanistan
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD -- The Army is conducting a court-martial Thursday at Joint Base Lewis-McChord for a soldier accused of crimes in Afghanistan.
Date: 07/07/2011 | Northwest
Active Duty
Navy offers ship tours during Seattle's SeafairSEATTLE -- As part of Fleet Week during this year's Seafair, Navy personnel are offering pier-side ship tours as well as cruises around Puget Sound.
Date: 07/04/2011 | Local News
Obama explains his Afghan plan to troops
FORT DRUM, N.Y. -- President Barack Obama on Thursday told American troops who've fought in Afghanistan that the U.S. has turned a corner after nearly 10 years of war, and it's time for their comrades still in that country to start coming home.
Date: 06/24/2011 | Nation & World
Most Missouri River levees holding up to flood's surge
HAMBURG, Iowa — The surge of water released from dams holding back the rain-swollen upper Missouri River reached deeper into Nebraska and Iowa on Thursday, headed swiftly toward Missouri and a soggy summer.
Date: 06/17/2011 | Nation & World
Army soldiers ditch hated berets in favor of caps
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The Army is ditching the hot, ill-fitting black wool berets that soldiers have worn for years and allowing them to go back to their old, brimmed patrol caps.
Date: 06/15/2011 | Nation & World
130 Fort Lewis soldiers deploying to Afghanistan
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD -- Joint Base Lewis-McChord is holding a flag ceremony Friday to mark the upcoming deployment of 130 soldiers to Afghanistan.The Army says the members of the 51st Signal Battalion will maintain critical communication infrastructure in northern Afghanistan.
Date: 06/03/2011 | Northwest
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