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The facility was consolidated with the U.S. Army's Fort Lewis on 1 February 2010 to become part of the Joint Base Lewis-McChord complex. This initiative was driven by the Base Realignment and Closure Round in 2005 and is designed to combine current infrastructure into one maximizing war fighting capability and efficiency, while saving taxpayer ...
Fort Lewis was merged with McChord Air Force Base on February 1, 2010, to form Joint Base Lewis–McChord. Fort Lewis, named after Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition , was one of the largest and most modern military reservations in the United States, consisting of 87,000 acres (136 sq mi; 350 km 2 ) of prairie land cut from the ...
They also completed 3,094 direct support level maintenance job orders, processed 56,525 material release orders, produced 47.5 million US gallons (180,000 m 3) of water, and issued over 4.9 million bottles of water and 1.9 million meals.
Soil, surface water and groundwater across most of the Tacoma Tar Pits site is contaminated by metals, PAHs, PCBs, and VOCs including benzene, from a former coal gasification plant and recycling operations. Ship building, oil refining, chemical manufacture and storage and other industrial activity has contaminated the land and sediments of the ...
The Western Air Defense Sector (WADS) is a unit of the Washington Air National Guard located at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Tacoma, Washington.. As a state militia unit, the Western Air Defense Sector is not in the normal United States Air Force chain of command.
The Joint Base Lewis–McChord (JBLM) Center for Autism Resources, Education and Services (CARES) [8] is a joint installation partnership between Madigan Army Medical Center and the JBLM Armed Forces Community Service which focuses on providing patient-centered care for military children with autism and their families.
American Lake is a lake located in Lakewood, Washington at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. It is the largest natural lake in Pierce County. [2] There are two public parks on the large lake: American Lake North Park & Marina, and Harry Todd Park. Both have lakeside beaches for swimming, fishing, or picnicking.
Lewis Army Museum (originally Fort Lewis Military Museum) is a military museum at Joint Base Lewis–McChord in the state of Washington, U.S. It is housed in the historic former Red Shield Inn , which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and can be seen prominently from Interstate 5 .