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Fort Lewis, McChord AFB now JBLM

The Columbian
Published: February 1, 2010, 12:00am

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — The military loves acronyms and now it has another one — JBLM. That stands for Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

A flag ceremony was held Monday to finish a realignment decision made five years ago to merge the Fort Lewis Army base and McChord Air Force Base into one operation.

Fort Lewis began as Camp Lewis in 1917. McChord began as McChord Field in 1940.

The base currently has 16,000 soldiers and about 200 airmen deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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