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Complete coverage of military and veterans issues in the South Puget Sound.

Scott Fontaine covers Fort Lewis, McChord Air Force Base, the Washington National Guard and the veteran community. Fontaine has worked at The News Tribune since 2006. E-mail along story suggestions and tips to scott.fontaine@thenewstribune.com

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Matt Misterek is the communities and military team leader at The News Tribune and has supervised local military coverage since 2003.
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FOB Tacoma
Saturday, July 12th, 2008
Posted by Mike Gilbert @ 01:16:18 am

The Army Chief of Staff announced two other general officer moves for Fort Lewis on Friday.

• Maj. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho will command Madigan Army Medical Center. She is currently commander of the Walter Reed Health Care System. (Note that she apparently is making jump from colonel to major general and is a replacing Brig. Gen. Sheila Baxter; will have to wait until Monday to get an explanation on that one. Per folks who received an invitation to the change of command ceremony 10 a.m. July 24, Baxter is retiring.)

• Brig. Gen. Jeff W. Mathis III gets the title of deputy commanding general for I Corps and Fort Lewis (rear), meaning he'll be the guy in charge when Lt. Gen. Chuck Jacoby and crew head down range next spring to lead Multi-National Corps-Iraq. Mathis has been at Lewis for some time now doing this job when Jacoby is away; he is a National Guardsman and most recently served as director of the Joint Staff at the Washington Guard's Joint Force Headquarters at Camp Murray.

More TK next week on both of these announcements.

Categories: Military, Fort Lewis, I Corps