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Memorial service set Sunday for Tacoma paratrooper killed by bomb blast in...
A memorial service for Army Spc. Joseph Thierry Caron is scheduled at 11 a.m. Sunday at Washington High School in Parkland, 12420 Ainsworth Avenue S. The paratrooper from Tacoma was killed by a bomb...
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Some 500 pay tribute to Pierce County soldier, 21, killed by bomb blast in...
Pierce County buried a hometown hero Sunday. U.S. Army Spc. Joseph T. “Joey” Caron was remembered as a man of many facets and talents who possessed one driving force: protecting freedom for family and...
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Joey Caron’s dedication to country “remarkable,” commanding general says
Army Spc. Joseph T. “Joey” Caron “lived every day God gave him to the fullest” and was a dedicated soldier with a remarkable love for his country, his commanding general in Afghanistan wrote The News...
View ArticleDeaths of JBLM soldiers described in WikiLeaks reports
Casualty reports describing the deaths of dozens of Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldiers can be found in hundreds of thousands of pages of classified Iraq war documents published last weekend by...
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Tacoma native patrols the road out of Iraq for 82nd Airborne
An Army staff sergeant from Tacoma had a good view of the American withdrawal from Iraq, as seen in this photo from a patrol last week. Staff Sgt. Christopher King of the 82nd Airborne Division was...
View ArticleJBLM soldier killed in southern Afghanistan
Minnesota news outlets are reporting that a Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier was killed in Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province on Sunday. Spc. Nicholas Dickhut, 23, of Rochester, Minn. just last week was...
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JBLM losing one of its team players as Fires Brigade’s Col. Kamper moves on
Col. Ken Kamper doesn’t miss much at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. He’s there when his artillery troops come home from war. He’s there to pay respects when soldiers fall in combat. And Kamper almost always...
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