12 The Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers program has been supporting the overall quality of life for single and unaccompanied Soldiers assigned to duty stations around the world since 1989.
Now, for the first time ever, the program has been established for deployed and rotational troops in Poland thanks to a small team of U.S. Army Reserve civil affairs Soldiers.
“One of our major objectives in Poland is to integrate U.S. forces with local communities, and their leaders, to identify and/or mitigate friction points,” said Army Reserve Cpt. Daniel Allen, team chief for Civil Affairs Team 5737, 361st Civil Affairs Brigade, 7th Mission Support Command. “The concept of BOSS has tremendous potential as it will encourage Soldiers to get out into the Polish communities, in a post COVID19 environment.”
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Sarah Lewis, a 34-year-old pregnant mother of three, was shot and killed by her husband, 31-year-old Keith Lewis, before he turned the gun on himself. Lewis was a combat medic for the Special Operations Command. The crime took place in Fayetteville, NC.
Keith Lewis was pronounced dead at the scene when police officers arrived on the scene, just after 7 p.m. on Sunday evening. His pregnant wife was rushed to a local hospital with three gunshot wounds where she, and her unborn baby, later died.
The couple’s three-year-old daughter was present during the shooting but was not injured. She is in the care of other family members.
But now they are planning a funeral for the mother and her unborn child.
Both were killed in what Fayetteville, North Carolina, police say was a murder-suicide Sunday, just days before Christmas. Just after 7 p.m., officers responded to the 900 block of Willow Street. When they arrived, they found Lewis suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
She was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries and later died. Her husband, Army Staff Sgt. Keith Lewis, 31, died at the scene from what was apparently a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said. Their 3-year-old daughter, Callie, was not injured, according to police.
Sgt. Jeremy Glass, a spokesman with the Fayetteville Police Department, said officers were called to the couple’s home back in 2016 for a domestic disturbance.
Fort Bragg soldier suspected of killing pregnant wife and himself, police say December 22, 2020 Staff Sgt. Keith Lewis, 31, was found dead from what police believe was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. (Getty Images) A soldier assigned to Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, is suspected of killing his pregnant wife and then himself Sunday evening, according to local police. Staff Sgt. Keith Lewis, 31, was found dead from what police believe was a self-inflicted gunshot wound just after 7 p.m. at his home in the 900 block of Willow Street in Fayetteville. Lewis’ pregnant 34-year-old wife, Sarah Lewis, was taken to a hospital after sustaining gunshot injuries, but she and her unborn child later died.