Joint Base Lewis–McChord (JBLM) is a U.S. military installation house to I Corps and 62d Airlift Wing located 9.1 miles (14.6 km) south-southwest of Tacoma, Washington under the jurisdiction of the United States Army Joint Base Headquarters, Joint Base Lewis–McChord. The capacity is an engagement of the United States Army’s Fort Lewis and the United States Air Force’s McChord Air Force Base which merged upon 1 February 2010 into a Joint Base as a result of Base Realignment and Closure Commission recommendations of 2005.

Joint Base Lewis–McChord is a training and mobilization center for everything services and is the single-handedly Army capacity projection base west of the Rocky Mountains in the Continental United States. Its geographic location provides curt 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 after that use genial Sea-Tac Airport. The strategic location of the base provides Air Force units in imitation of the skill to conduct clash and humanitarian airlift taking into account the C-17 Globemaster III.

In 1916, a incorporation of local civilian businessmen seeking the foundation of a military base in the Puget Sound area and a military survey team approved a military publish to be constructed near American Lake. Businessmen and Washington voters credited a donation of the land close American Lake to the United States government. The base (then known as Camp Lewis) would help as a valuable training base for United States soldiers during World War I. This base would be known as one of the most competently managed and cheaply funded bases that was constructed during World War I. Additional construction of the camp would officially commemorate a renaming of Camp Lewis to Fort Lewis in 1927.

The construction of the base moreover included the seizure of Nisqually tribe reservation lands for their use as an artillery field. Legal seizure of the lands occurred through eminent domain and seizure, which resulted in tribal members being provoked from their homes.

Units trained at Fort Lewis would serve next major distinction in both the Pacific and European theaters during World War II. Prisoner of warfare compounds were constructed to house German and Italian POWs until the halt of the war. Fort Lewis units in addition to participated in major operations in the unprejudiced day, including Operation Just Cause and Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.