FOB Tacoma
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

Or, if you prefer, you can send mail to The News Tribune, PO Box 11000, Tacoma 98411.


Also contributing:
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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Monday, September 8th, 2008
Posted by Mike Gilbert @ 02:47:32 pm

The Army Times' Kelly Kennedy has a good piece this week about the use of hard labor in sentencing in UCMJ cases.

Her lead example is a former Fort Lewis private who was made to dig a trench in full battle rattle after he was sentenced to 45 days hard labor for peeing hot for cocaine.

Categories: Military, WTF, over?
Posted by Mike Gilbert @ 02:37:35 pm

Gen. Carter Ham took command of U.S. Army Europe in a ceremony in Heidelberg today.

Check out that combat patch.

Categories: Military, People