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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
Monday, April 6th, 2009
Posted by Scott Fontaine @ 09:39:49 am

Gen. George Casey, the Army chief of staff, will visit Fort Lewis tomorrow to visit with soldiers and attend an after-action review for a Minnesota National Guard unit soon deploying to Iraq.

The 60-year-old general will preside over a promotion ceremony for several Fort Lewis noncommissioned officers, according to a post press release, and then award the Army Commendation Medal to a 3rd Stryker Brigade soldier who provided first aid to a 7-year-old girl injured in a car accident.

He also will meet with soldiers from the 34th Red Bull Infantry Division, the Minnesota Guard unit that will soon oversee daily operations in southern Iraq. (For those steeped in the lingo, the division is taking over from the 10th Mountain Division as Multi-National Division-South.)

Casey has been chief of staff since April 2007; before that, he was the commander of Multi-National Force-Iraq.

(U.S. Army photo)