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A military grandparent started Col. H. Charles "Chuck" Hodges on a path to the Army that led him to command of Joint Base Lewis-McChord, but a commander during Operation Desert Storm, a military school and a handful of professional NCOs stood out in shaping his military values. Hodges
Military Life
The new Joint Base Lewis-McChord commander held his first town hall meeting Aug. 22 to say he is fully engaged, working to serve the installation's customers - and already requesting reinforcements for his "overtaxed" and "over-reporting" team. Colonel H. Charles "Chuck" Hodges took command Aug. 7 and
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How to run a city wasn't in the curriculum at West Point, or part of Col. Thomas Brittain's 23-year infantry-heavy Army experience before his arrival at Fort Lewis. Yet at the end of his three-year joint base command, as the de facto mayor of the sixth-largest city
News Articles
A Stryker brigade whose only commander said was "conceived under the aegis of Mars" retired its flag and welcomed a new leader last week. The Destroyer Brigade cased its colors July 22 for the first time in its three-year history, when it inactivated to become 2nd Brigade, 2nd
