including Fort Lewis near Tacoma, after inspections at posts worldwide. The inspections were done the last week of April and covered nearly 150,000 barracks rooms. They found that 45 repairs ...

About 30,000 military personnel are based at Fort Lewis. Barracks where soldiers live are usually split into rooms for one to three soldiers, Piek said. Details about the barracks where the girls ...

About 30,000 military personnel are based at Fort Lewis. Barracks where soldiers live are usually split into rooms for one to three soldiers, Piek said. Details about the barracks where the girls ...

Norgren said he was unsure whether Fort Lewis rules allow underage civilians to be in the barracks at 3:30 a.m. Some of the base's older barracks are multibed, open rooms. But many soldiers live ...

Leah King died of a drug overdose last February in the Fort Lewis barracks room of Timothy Bennitt. The 19-year-old Afghanistan war veteran from Rolling Prairie, Ind., is charged with involuntary ...

Timothy E. Bennitt stem from the Feb. 15, 2009, death of Leah King. She died in Bennitt's Fort Lewis barracks room after she and a friend overdosed on a combination of drugs. The friend recovered.

Fort Lewis is situated in a key location along Interstate 5, allowing easy access to Sea-Tac airport and to the deep water ports of Tacoma and Seattle. Welcome to Fort Lewis Army Base.