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

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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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FOB Tacoma
Monday, May 25th, 2009
Posted by Scott Fontaine @ 03:19:33 am

Our big Memorial Day story ran Sunday. It focused on the Ewens family of Gig Harbor; one son was killed in Afghanistan, two of his brothers are there now and one is heading over there soon with 5th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. (For the Web-only readers, there's a good chance you missed this story. The folks who update our homepage jammed it way down into oblivion pretty early in the day, making it hard to find if you weren't looking.)

We also will be staffing an event today. Check out thenewstribune.com later today for that story. I suspect we'll be poaching at least part of The Olympian's story for tomorrow's paper too.

And, of course, don't forget to check out our war casualties database, which records the death of every service member either from Washington or assigned to a military installation in this state.

Categories: Fort Lewis, 5-2 Strykers