Two employees from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, received awards from the chief of engineers, Lt. Gen. Robert L. Van Antwerp, Aug. 4 at an awards banquet during the Corps’ 2008 Summer Leaders Conference in Pittsburgh.

Agents at the Virginia Department of Veterans Services are fanning out across Northern Virginia to help veterans with filing claims for state and federal veterans benefits. Visits are scheduled at Fort Belvoir and at the Pentagon and Fort Belvoir. Visits to these sites will be at least monthly and, in some cases, weekly.

.S. Army Materiel Command’s Synchronized Pre-deployment Operational Tracker — or SPOT — may soon make access for contractors to American installations easier

The latest GI Bill considerably improves the opportunity for today’s servicemembers to obtain their education, a senior DoD official said.

Comic book author Bentley Boyd, well-known for his Chester the Chesapeake Bay blue crab character, visited a group of Belvoir kids recently at the Vernondale Community Center.

A California troop-support group is paying tribute to servicemembers who died while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom with a mobile memorial.

Living on post as a member of a one-car family, I make at least 90 percent of my trips outside the home on foot.

About a dozen Fort Belvoir volunteers were part of a group of 100 people who gave their Saturday morning to help out Fairfax County Schools and the Mount Vernon-Lee Chamber of Commerce.

When Col. Kenneth G. Canestrini took command of the DeWitt Health Care Network in July 2006, it was business as usual around in the hospital and clinics and planning for the new hospital was underway, just days away from receiving its preferred site.

Fort Belvoir’s 701st Military Police Group, Criminal Investigation Command, said goodbye to its commander, Col. Joe Ethridge, Thursday, during a change of command ceremony.