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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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
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Posted by Matt Misterek @ 11:23:21 am

U.S. flags have been lowered today at all state agency buildings in honor of an Aberdeen soldier who was killed last weekend in Afghanistan.

Gov. Chris Gregoire ordered the flags to be flown at half-staff for Pvt. Aaron Fairbairn, 21. He died in a bombing Saturday, which was the Fourth of July. He was assigned to an Army unit out of Fort Richardson, Alaska.

The flags will be at half-staff until sunset today or first thing Friday morning. The governor encourages others with flags to join in the recognition.