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.
Blogroll
Calendar
August 2009
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
 << < Current> >>
            1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
30 31          
Archives
XML Feeds
What is RSS?
Misc
Who's Online?
  • MrSinister Email
  • artman77 Email
  • mikebednarczyk Email
  • Guest Users: 400
FOB Tacoma
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Posted by Scott Fontaine @ 02:33:32 pm

Sorry I haven't posted much lately. Been busy with some longer-term stuff I'm working on.

But I do want to point you to a few stories. The Canwest News Service has a reporter in Kandahar province, where 5th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division is located. Here are a couple of stories to get you up to date with what's going on:

Canada, U.S. divvy up turf in Afghan war

Canada handoff of Afghan battle zones marks 'new era.'

UPDATE: The AP has a reporter with the troops too. Heidi Vogt writes about their cultural education crash-course.