FOB Tacoma » 555th Engineer Brigade http://blog.thenewstribune.com/military Complete coverage of military and veterans issues in the South Puget Sound Fri, 24 May 2013 00:21:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Local links, Nov. 12 http://blog.thenewstribune.com/military/2009/11/12/local-links-nov-12/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/military/2009/11/12/local-links-nov-12/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:43:20 +0000 Scott Fontaine http://blog.thenewstribune.com/military/?p=990 I’m catching up on almost a week’s worth of links (I was out of town), but obviously the biggest story while I was gone was the memorial service for the seven fallen Fort Lewis soldiers. Vice President Joe Biden was in attendance.

Other local links:

5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division:
Injured Fort Lewis soldier back from the brink [The News Tribune]
Two more from Fort Lewis confirmed killed in Afghanistan [The News Tribune]
Fort Lewis Memorial: Going back to Louisiana [The News Tribune]
Fallen Stryker soldier: ‘Not once did he quit …

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3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division:
Two from Fort Lewis die in vehicle rollover [The News Tribune]
Amesbury soldier dies in Iraq [Boston Globe]
Fallen hero was ray of sunshine’ [Boston Herald]
Soldier recalled as ‘ray of sunshine’ [The Daily News of North Andover, Mass.]
Burnsville soldier dies in Iraq on second tour [Star-Tribune]
He was a husband. He was a father. He was a GI. [St. Paul Pioneer-Press]

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