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Archive Home > 2011 > December > 28 > ‘A base on the brink'

‘A base on the brink'

As ‘the most troubled base in the military,' Joint Base Lewis-McChord is having effect on neighboring cities

By Kim Murphy / The Bulletin
December 28, 2011

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — Mary Coghill Kirkland said she asked her son, 21-year-old Spc. Derrick Kirkland, what was wrong as soon as he came back from his first deployment to Iraq in 2008.

He had a ready answer: “Mom, I'm a murderer.”

He told her how his team had kicked in the door of an....

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