Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 3560
Land area (2000): 15.289228 sq. miles (39.598916 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.597451 sq. miles (1.547391 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 15.886679 sq. miles (41.146307 sq. km)
FIPS code: 24915
Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53
Location: 47.114369 N, 122.564587 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 98433
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Fort Lewis
Wikipedia
Fort Lewis is a United States military facility located south-southwest of Tacoma, Washington, under the jurisdiction of the United States Army Joint Base Garrison, Joint Base Lewis–McChord. It was merged with the United States Air Force's McChord Air Force Base on 1 February 2010 into a Joint Base as a result of Base Realignment and Closure Commission recommendations of 2005.
Joint Base Lewis-McChord is a training and mobilization center for all services and is the only Army power-projection base west of the Rocky Mountains. Its geographic location provides rapid access to the deep water ports of Tacoma, Olympia and Seattle for deploying equipment. Units can be deployed from McChord Field, and individuals and small groups can also use nearby Sea-Tac Airport. The strategic location of the base provides Air Force units with the ability to conduct combat and humanitarian airlift with the C-17 Globemaster III.
Usage examples of "fort lewis".
At Indiantown Gap, there was just time enough to buy uniforms and have his shot record brought up to date before being loaded on a battered Douglas C-54 and flown to Fort Lewis, Washington.
Three days after arriving at Fort Lewis, he boarded a brand-new-looking Lockheed Constellation of Trans-Global Airways and was flown to Tokyo via Honolulu and Wake Island.
He just went back to duty at Fort Lewis today, and he was tired when he came home.
The familiar OD trucks from Fort Lewis were waiting, and it only took about an hour to deliver us back to the drab, two-story yellow barracks and bare drill fields I'd seen on a half dozen posts from Fort Ord to Camp Kilmer.
The 6th Ranger Battalion, activated on 13 January 1941 at Fort Lewis, Washington, was assigned to the Pacific theatre and participated in battles in New Guinea, Leyte, and Luzon.
A couple hundred miles to Fort Lewis College in Durango isnt a long way.
With a five-day delay-en-route leave, he was to report to the transportation officer, Fort Lewis, Washington, for further shipment by air to Headquarters, Eighth United States Army, which had an urgent priority for crypto people.
With a five-day delay-en-route leave, he was to report to the transportation officer, Fort Lewis, Washington, for fur-ther shipment by air to Headquarters, Eighth United States Army, which had an urgent priority for crypto people.
A squad of MPs from nearby Fort Lewis also aided in subduing the crowd, which included a number of young soldiers on leave from the base.
My uncle knows a quartermaster at Fort Lewis who can get them for me practically free -- all sizes, as many as I want.