A simple suggestion earned $10,000 for an engine maintainer at Misawa Air Base, Japan, and saved the Air Force thousands more.

Ray Mabus, former Mississippi governor and U.S. ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was sworn in Tuesday as the 75th Secretary of the Navy. Leading the Navy and Marine Corps, Mabus will be responsible for an annual budget in excess of $150 billion and almost 900,000 people.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said his focal points in formulating fiscal 2010 defense budget recommendations were military troops and families, balancing between current and future missions and reforming the Pentagon’s buying process.

There is a new version of an old scam washing up on the shores of Fort Belvoir.

For the week ending May 9, Fort Belvoir’s Directorate of Emergency Services reported the following:

At 6 a.m. Saturday, CWO2 Clint Harris began mowing Woodlawn Cemetery while his son, Jason, raked leaves. By 8 a.m. about 50 others had joined him from Fort Belvoir, Woodlawn United Methodist Church and Fort Belvoir Elementary School. They were there to clean the cemetery and honor veterans buried there by placing flags at each headstone in honor of Memorial Day.

After the events of Sept. 11, 2001, Woodlawn Road and Beulah Street were closed to public use through Fort Belvoir. In a cooperative effort, the Virginia Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Fairfax County and the U.S. Army will construct a replacement road that will extend and widen existing Old Mill Road, now named Mulligan Road, from Route 1 (Richmond Highway) to Telegraph Road through Fort Belvoir.

From Monday to May 31, no Virginia sales tax will be charged on the purchase of many items that can be used to prepare homes for hurricane and flood season and to fill emergency supply kits. 

Summer fun is around the corner and part of that excitement revolves around what movies will be hitting the big screen this year.

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