Ben Saddoris

Some people think the processes for military training or equipment maintenance on Joint Base Lewis-McChord may negatively impact the environment. However, the process that likely has the largest effect is much more common and pervasive — the purchase of goods and services. Collectively, procurement choices can produce significant and lasting impact. Those impacts, on JBLM and communities everywhere, come from products’ life cycles, from extraction and manufacture to transport, use and disposal.