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• Garco awarded $35.8 million Joint Base Lewis-McChord contract

  May 30, 2012 in Business on Page A10 Spokane’s Garco Construction has landed a $35.8 million federal contract after challenging an earlier award for the job given to an Oklahoma competitor. Garco bid on the project last year … 1

• Lewis-McChord soldier killed in Afghanistan

  May 28, 2012 in News JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — A 21-year-old soldier based out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma has been killed in an attack in Afghanistan. 9

• Base names 4 soldiers killed in helicopter crash

  December 14, 2011 in Region were identified Wednesday as investigators look into the cause of the collision, 1

• Garco loses military job despite having low bid

  November 5, 2011 in Business on Page A12 Spokane’s Garco Construction is appealing an Army Corps of Engineers decision to award a $36 million construction job to an Oklahoma company, claiming the selection process incorrectly gave an advantage … 1

• 5 apparent suicides of JBLM soldiers since July 1

  August 17, 2011 in Region Since the first of July, five soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord have died in apparent suicides, part of an Army-wide upsurge in such deaths despite stepped-up prevention efforts. 3

• Medal of Honor recipient welcomed back in Washington

  July 19, 2011 in Nation/World, Region After a week in which he was awarded the Medal of Honor at the White House and feted by the New York Mets and Broadway, Sgt. 1st Class Leroy Petry …

• Insurgent attack kills Colville soldier, 28

  July 18, 2011 in City on Page A1 A soldier from Colville died following an attack in Afghanistan by insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades, the U.S Department of Defense announced Sunday. Army Staff Sgt. Wyatt A. Goldsmith, 28, died …

• Obama decorates war hero

  July 13, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Army Sgt. 1st Class Leroy Petry could have sought cover four years ago when a grenade landed near him and two of his fellow soldiers, all of them …

• 2 more soldiers face courts-martial in Afghan case

  December 10, 2010 in Region Officials at Joint Base Lewis-McChord say cases against two more soldiers charged with misconduct in Afghanistan will proceed to courts-martial.

• Army reviews 5th Stryker leadership in alleged killings

  November 22, 2010 in Region The Army has appointed a brigadier general to conduct a top-to-bottom review of the Washington-state based 5th Stryker Brigade, after some of its members were charged this year with rampant …

• Soldier charged in Afghan killings doesn’t testify

  November 9, 2010 in Region Most of the soldiers charged along with an Army sergeant accused of masterminding a plan to kill Afghan civilians are declining to testify at a military hearing to determine whether …

• Hearing begins in alleged plot to murder Afghans

  September 27, 2010 in Nation/World, Region Despite the array of prescription drugs he was taking, an Army soldier’s videotaped statement describing how he and his colleagues randomly killed three Afghan civilians appeared to be a reliable … 1

• Army: Fort Lewis-based sergeant kept body parts

  September 8, 2010 in Region New documents released by the Army say a staff sergeant charged in a conspiracy to murder civilians kept Afghan body parts and threatened his subordinates.

• Army: Lewis-McChord soldiers plotted to kill Afghans

  August 25, 2010 in Nation/World, Region Seven more soldiers from a Stryker brigade at Joint Base Lewis-McChord have been charged in connection with a conspiracy to kill Afghan civilians. 5

• Guilty plea at Lewis-McChord in soldier killings

  August 23, 2010 in Region The Army says a woman accused of killing two fellow soldiers and kidnapping their baby pleaded guilty today to murder and kidnapping charges to avoid a possible death penalty.

• Iraq combat troops return to Lewis-McChord

  August 19, 2010 in Region With one last command, 150 members of the Army’s 4th Stryker brigade broke formation and rushed to embraced their loved ones. Husbands and wives kissed and hugged their children as … 6

• Five soldiers charged with Afghan deaths

  June 17, 2010 in Nation/World on Page A3 SEATTLE – Five soldiers accused of murdering three Afghan civilians earlier this year allegedly threw grenades at them and shot them with rifles, according to charging papers released Wednesday by …