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$42,985
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Fort Lewis, WA - History
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Welcome to the Fort Lewis Home page. The Fort Lewis Home page provides as much information as possible on Fort Lewis. Knowing Fort Lewis’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Fort Lewis’s Home page, you will also find Fort Lewis’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Fort Lewis has a population of 13045. 57.7% of Fort Lewis’s inhabitants are Male, and 42.3 are female. 65.9% of Fort Lewis is married and 1.6% own their own home. Household median income in Fort Lewis is $42,985, and the individual median income is $26,320. Fort Lewis’s Ethnic is the following: White(61.9%), Hispanic(25.1%), Black(15%), Multiple(12.4%), Asian(4.6%), Other(4.6%), Pacific(1.3%), Native(0.3%).
Fort Lewis was a United States Army post from 1917 to 2010 located 9.1 miles (14.6 km) south-southwest of Tacoma, Washington. Fort Lewis was merged with McChord Air Force Base on 1 February 2010 to form Joint Base Lewis–McChord. Fort Lewis, named after Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was one of the largest and most modern military reservations in the United States, consisting of 87,000 acres (350 km2) of prairie land cut from the glacier-flattened Nisqually Plain.
It is the premier military installation in the northwest and is the most requested duty station in the army.Joint Base Lewis-McChord is a major Army base, with much of the 2nd Infantry Division in residence, along with Headquarters, 7th Infantry Division; 593rd Expeditionary Sustainment Command; and 1st Special Forces Group.
However, the Headquarters of the 7th Infantry Division is primarily a garrison management body. Fort Lewis's 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.
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