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Neary-Sighted: Time to Rename Joint Base Lewis-McChord After the Private Sector

December 22, 2010 By Ben Sclair

Walter Neary, a Lakewood City Councilman, posted a tongue-in-cheek essay on his personal blog about renaming Joint Base Lewis-McChord after the private sector. Neary’s blog starts off, “What? Rename Joint Base Lewis-McChord? That may sound silly, because we’re still getting used to the new name. Maybe. But if we renamed it ‘Boeing,’ ‘Microsoft’ or ‘Intel’ some good things could happen.” It’s an interesting read.

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