Kimberly Roy, a mother of two and Army wife from Yelm, is featured in the next episode of In Their Boots, a documentary series that's webcast every Wednesday at 4 p.m. PDT. Her husband is a captain from Fort Lewis deployed twice to Afghanistan.

Here's a clip with more information about the series:

And a clip about the next episode featuring the Roys:

Lt. Gen. Carter F. Ham – who as a one-star led the Fort Lewis-based Task Force Olympia through the worst of it in Mosul in 2004-05 – was nominated Friday for a fourth star and command of the U.S. Army in Europe.

Ham was deputy commanding general at Fort Lewis and I Corps in late 2003 when he and a 100-member slice of the I Corps staff was sent on short notice to provide command and control for U.S. forces in northern Iraq. That included the Army's first Stryker brigade, the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, and after that, the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, from Fort Lewis.

Can't find it on the web so I'm posting here a profile I wrote about him back in the early days in Mosul:

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That Army laptop?

Never mind.

Tumwater police this morning told our friends at the Olympian that they recovered it Saturday or Sunday, and that it was returned at some point Thursday to "the owner" – not sure yet whether that means the Army, or the Army personnel staffer who left it in his unlocked truck at home in Lacey.

Tumwater police said it did not appear that any data had been accessed. A Fort Lewis spokeswoman said authorities there were checking it today to make sure, but declined further comment for the moment.

The Tumwater police told the Olympian they were called to the Motel 6 there on Saturday afternoon by a 17-year-old male who wanted to report his wallet stolen. Long story short, he wound up under arrest and booked into juvenile hall for suspicion of possession of stolen property and other offenses.

Tumwater detective Jennifer Kolb said police found numerous items from recent Tumwater and Lacey area car prowls in his car and at a home where he'd been staying recently.

Fort Lewis says they'll get back to us later today with more information about the recovery.

UPDATE: Fort Lewis PAO sent an e-mail at 10:34 a.m. following up on a couple questions (would've posted it sooner but I was out on another story).

In a nutshell, they say the Army has the laptop, and that the information is secure:

"According to Fort Lewis Criminal Investigation Command the computer and external hard drive have been examined by computer forensics experts. The robbers apparently tried to access the laptop, but were unsuccessful, and the external hard drive containing the Soldiers information had not been accessed since the last time that it had been used by the Fort Lewis employee. It's also worth noting that the routine security measures installed on the laptop computer prevented the efforts of the robbers to get access to the laptop."