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Joint Base Lewis-McChord, home to the 2nd Infantry Division's Stryker brigades, has virtually no air conditioning in its barracks.

Newly discovered documents bolster a war widow’s claim to the Joint Base Lewis-McChord cemetery plot she was promised decades ago but recently found someone buried in.

Mary Dowling, the wife of helicopter pilot Bob Dowling, killed in the Vietnam War, had received annual assurances from the Army that her grave plot next to her husband’s was secure. On Veteran’s Day, she saw freshly turned earth and realized someone else had been buried in her plot.

None of the solutions the Army has proposed involve giving Mary her plot back, and she has stood firm that is the only solution she will accept.

15 military families sue their privatized housing landlord at JBLM 4 hours ago Families at Joint Base Lewis-McChord are the latest to sue landlords over problems at privatized military housing. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Abner Guzman) Fifteen military families have sued their privatized housing landlord at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., alleging the conditions of their homes caused health problems and financial losses. The lawsuit, filed May 6 in Washington’s Pierce County Superior Court, names Lewis McChord Communities, LLC; Lincoln Military Housing Lewis McChord PM LLC. The defendants ...