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Joint Base Lewis–McChord is a training and mobilization center for all services and is the only Army power projection base west of the Rocky Mountains in the Continental United States. Its geographic location provides rapid access to the deepwater ports of Tacoma , Olympia , and Seattle for deploying equipment.
F Company 2nd Battalion, 135th General Support Aviation Battalion (formerly A Company, 5th Battalion, 159th Aviation Regiment (1996–2008) & B Company 1st Battalion, 214th General Support Aviation Battalion (2008–2016)), conducts high-altitude search-and-rescue operations. Based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord's Gray Army Airfield, the Army ...
March 2006 – October 2009, Maintenance Training Manager, 349th Maintenance Group, Travis AFB; November 2009 – January 2012, Cargo Operations Section Chief, 55th Aerial Port Squadron, Travis AFB; February 2012 – December 2013, Aircraft Load Planning Services Section Chief, 55th Aerial Port Squadron, Travis AFB
The group directs four squadrons operating from 11 locations in Washington, Alaska, Hawaii and Japan. The group provides an Air Support Operations Center and Tactical Air Control Parties to US Army combat units at multiple echelons including United States Army Pacific, I Corps, and nine aviation, airborne, infantry and Stryker brigade combat teams of the 2nd and 25th Infantry Divisions.
Joint Base Lewis-McChord (Fort Lewis) is a major Army installation, with much of the 2nd Infantry Division in residence, along with Headquarters, the 7th Infantry Division, 593rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command, and the 1st Special Forces Group. However, the Headquarters of the 7th Infantry Division is primarily a garrison management body.
Joint Base Lewis-McChord has shut down all of its beaches for a safety review following the drowning Monday of a service member. “We just want to make sure that we’re doing things by the ...
A MH-47G Chinook crew from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) and airmen from the 22nd Special Tactics Squadron (Red Team) conduct helocast alternate insertion and extraction training at American Lake on Joint Base Lewis-McChord Members of the 22nd Special Tactics Squadron jump from an MC-130H Combat Talon II May 2, 2014 ...
The 62nd Medical Brigade received orders for a second rotation in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom 04–06 in June 2004. The Headquarters, 62nd Medical Brigade began planning for deployment as the sustainment theater of operations medical command and control. The brigade deployed to Kuwait in December 2004, as the headquarters element of a ...