About 100 girls from kindergarten through eighth grade danced the night away to tunes from the 50s to the new millennium.

Fort Belvoir fifth-graders are currently revving up for the beginning of the 10-week Drug Abuse Resistance Education program scheduled to begin Feb. 2.

Briefs

A long holiday weekend usually means a new flood of care packages to troops serving overseas, and traditionally, those boxes include snack foods such as peanut butter crackers or candy.

The Army accepted it’s first six “neighborhood electric vehicles” during a ceremony Monday at Fort Myer.

The secretary of the Navy announced recently that the next Virginia-class attack submarine will be named in honor of recently retired Virginia Senator John Warner, who retired Jan. 3, after 30 years of service in the U.S. Senate.

Two Fort Belvoir Elementary School classes were visited Jan. 22 by Col. Jerry Blixt, installation commander; and Command Sgt. Maj. Allison Smith, installation command sergeant major. Their visit was part of a community relations outreach activity celebrating mentorship month.

Mount Vernon High School students are set to participate in the Fort Belvoir Job Shadow Day. As Belvoir is a business partner with the school, it has invited about 40 juniors and seniors to visit the post Feb. 5 to shadow professionals in their daily work.

Five years of research and meticulously combing through notes has yielded David Stevens the accomplishment of becoming a published author.

With the economy struggling, any advice helps. That’s what inspired the military to create its financial readiness road show - a one-day event that brings information on everything from retirement planning to reporting identity theft to every active-duty Soldier and DoD civilian on installations across the country.