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Fort Lewis is a United States Army base located 9.1 miles (14.6 km) south-southwest of Tacoma, Washington.Fort Lewis was merged with McChord Air Force Base on February 1, 2010, to form Joint Base Lewis–McChord.
North Fort Lewis is a census-designated place located in Pierce County, Washington. It is a part of Fort Lewis , which is a part of Joint Base Lewis-McChord . Demographics
Fort Lewis was merged with McChord Air Force Base on February 1, 2010 to form Joint Base Lewis–McChord. Fort Lewis, named after Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was one of the largest and most modern military reservations in the United States, consisting of 87,000 acres (136 sq mi; 350 km2) of prairie land cut from the ...
Used to support Fort Lewis, Army helicopters assisted with medical evacuations at Mount Rainier National Park on numerous occasions in the 1970s. Army helicopters were also used to insert search-and-rescue [SAR] teams into inaccessible areas on the east, north, and west sides of the mountain, lowering rangers to the ground by a cable device known as a "jungle penetrator."
The Fort Lewis Regional Corrections Facility (RCF) was activated in March 1957 as an Installation Detention Facility (IDF) to specifically satisfy the post's short term confinement and those transfers to the United States Corrections Brigade at Fort Riley, Kansas or the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, KS. During the ...
But his grandfather had — as a prisoner of war at Fort Lewis (now Joint Base Lewis-McChord) in the 1940s. Aldo Arrighi’s time as a POW was filled with adventure, love and terror, he told his ...
It was briefly known as the Camp Lewis Apartments, then the Camp Lewis Inn, and from 1927 the Fort Lewis Inn. [2] [3] [5] In August 1972, after the new Fort Lewis Lodge opened near the Main Post Headquarters, the building was preserved to become the new home for the fort's museum. The inn officially became the Fort Lewis Military Museum on July ...
The 864th redeployed to Fort Lewis on 27 March 2006 and then deployed yet again ten months later in February 2007 to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom VI, VII, and VIII. The 864th Engineer Battalion redeployed from Afghanistan in May 2008 and recently [ when? ] reformed into a construction battalion.