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Fort Lewis to grow by about 7,000

Dec-20-2007 » Filed Under: Ft. Lewis

LES BLUMENTHAL; The News Tribune

WASHINGTON – About 2,000 more active-duty soldiers will be stationed at Fort Lewis during the next five years as the Army increases its forces, the Pentagon said Wednesday.

Now, 28,000 soldiers are stationed at the post outside Tacoma. The additional troops and 5,000 more civilian personnel will bring the levels at Fort Lewis to about 35,000 by 2013.

“This is going to be big,” said Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Belfair, a senior member of the House defense appropriations subcommittee. “We always like to go in the plus direction.”

Some of the new forces headed to Fort Lewis were expected.

To add to the three Stryker brigades there, the post will receive an Expeditionary Sustainment Command headquarters, which will be led by a brigadier general and be responsible for keeping supplies moving during major deployments.

There also will be new medical, military police and construction management forces assigned to the post.

“We knew this was coming, but we didn’t know the extent,” said Joe Piek, a Fort Lewis spokesman.

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