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The Executive Leader Readiness Program, or XLRP, creates a time for senior commanders, command sergeants major, eligible GS-15s, and their significant others to pause and reflect on their personal and families' holistic health and fitness. The program director is Lt. Col. Lisa Buckles, a nurse practitioner; the co-director is Dr. Karen
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Service members: if you've been wanting to make your voice heard on issues related to race and discrimination in the military, now's your chance to do so. On Sept. 26, the Department of Defense released the 2022 Workplace and Equal Opportunity Survey for a random selection of active-duty, reserve and National
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The 2012 Puyallup Fair celebrates the U.S. armed forces by hosting another Military Monday next week. Free gate admission is offered to all active, reserve, and retired military and National Guard and their dependents, plus disabled veterans, when each shows valid military ID at any gate.
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Eight teams took advantage of the chance to shake off the rust after a long JBLM flag football intramural off-season. The first eight teams to turn in their registration paperwork for the 2012 season scoped out this year's competition early in a pre-season tournament at Cowan Stadium Tuesday
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Roughly 3,000 Soldiers and Airmen gathered to celebrate Single Service Member Day at Shoreline Beach Sept. 6 - the program's most popular event this year. "(Single Service Member Day) was established to thank and recognize all the hard work that they do every day," said Spc. Sable
Entertainment
We won't bury the lead: The ABC journalism drama Alaska Daily is a solid, impressively credentialed and entertaining albeit conventional series that plays like a comfort-viewing, hourlong show from the 1990s. With a fish-out-of-water premise, an ongoing mystery plot that will no doubt play out over the course of the
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It's that time of year again. TRICARE Prime billing statements have gone out in the West Region. This year, enrollees will be seeing some new numbers in their statements. The individual and family annual enrollment fee rates are increasing. Are my fees changing? Yes, the fees are changing
Military Life
When Amber Fadeyi and her husband, Sgt. 1st Class Jon Fadeyi, arrived at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in December 2009, she had just found out she was pregnant with their fifth child. Fifteen days later, her husband was on his way to join his unit already deployed downrange. As
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(446th AW PA) - After years of minimal manning and an unfinished vision, the 446th Airlift Wing Equal Opportunity Office has created a focus - to create a working environment that allows Reservists to reach their optimal abilities. The 446th EO mission is to equip and educate Reservists on the importance
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(62nd AW PA) - "Ty Barnes was a hero to me, he was a hero to his teammates, his friends and the families who knew him in Okinawa, Japan and here in Washington," said Lt. Col. John Traxler, former commander of Staff Sgt. Ty Barnes, 22nd Special Tactics Squadron combat
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(446th AW PA) - Reservists from the 446th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at McChord Field are sharing their expertise with crew chiefs from the 164th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Tennessee Air National Guard, Memphis, Tenn., who are preparing for a transition from the C-5 Galaxy to the C-17 Globemaster III. Traveling to the
Veterans
They had been hunting the German submarine all day. It was 1942 and Lt. Col. Bob Norsen and his crew were flying a B-24 Liberator bomber in the Gulf of Mexico. Norsen's account of the day is vivid, as if the mid-summer combat incident happened yesterday. As the B-24 pilot, he descended the
Health
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an annual campaign to raise awareness about the impact of breast cancer. To this end, there will be a Breast Reconstruction Awareness Day on Wednesday, Oct. 19 from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm on the first floor of the Madigan Army Medical Center Mall. All
Features
On September 27, Primo Grill is hosting a very special wine and dinner event-the Bethel Heights Winemaker Dinner. Bethel Heights is a well-rated family-owned winery from Oregon. Primo Grill is a family-owned restaurant in Tacoma that values using locally sourced ingredients. "We consider events like this a way to thank a
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Team McChord welcomed the 2022-2024 honorary commanders during an assumption of command ceremony at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Sept. 29. These local community leaders come from various backgrounds and play a key role in continuing to strengthen ties between Team McChord and the local community. "Leaders pair with military commanders and serve
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PUYALLUP, Wash. - Dogs, dogs and more dogs were lined up in rows at the Puyallup Fair's animal barn. This was no kennel; rather these dogs were on display and on their best behavior as crowds of people came to see them. The military canine
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Bobble Tiki isn’t wearing underwear right now. If Bobble Tiki could have one single wish — anything in the entire world — it would be for a frosty fresh breeze to find its way up Bobble Tiki’s grass skirt, and stay put. Ohhhh, how nice that would be. Bobble Tiki is hot,
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Debbie Brese, owner, general manager, and dough artist. Cloverleaf Pizza is a Tacoma mainstay. We all know it. We all have our favorite pizza. We all sit patiently and wait the half hour to 45 minutes that it takes said beloved pizza to find its way to our tables. And secretly wonder
Business News
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- More than 300 service members, military spouses and civilians said 'Foo' to their normal workdays and set sail for the 50th annual FOOFARAW, a military appreciation day in Olympia, Wash., Sept 7. The Thurston County Chamber of Commerce and Olympia Yacht Club sponsor
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On Tuesday, those who work and live at Joint Base Lewis-McChord took time to remember the events of September 11, 2001, at several observances. Fire stations on JBLM took a moment of silence at 5:46 a.m.(PST), the time the first plane hit the World Trade Center
