450 students, parents, and family members from Fort Belvoir Elementary participated in Family Science Night March 5. Families visited the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly.

The Cat in the Hat made an appearance Saturday afternoon in a Lake Ridge community center to promote reading.

Fort Belvoir welcomed 15 Soldiers into the noncommissioned officer corps Friday, during an induction ceremony at the DAU auditorium.

The Directorate of Information Management has been directed to upgrade all desktops and government-issued laptops on post to the Army Golden Master 8.X and upgrade the operating system from Microsoft XP to Microsoft Vista, according to a notice issued by the directorate.

Fort Belvoir’s first female commander, retired Brig. Gen. Evelyn Foote, visited Belvoir on Tuesday to attend the post’s Women’s History Month observance and to see how things have changed in the past 20 years.

President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2010 budget proposal includes a 2.9 percent pay increase for U.S. servicemembers.

Servicemembers in Afghanistan now have a place to turn to cope with the toughest aspects of deployment when they need it most.

Few people could fault Army Spc. Bobby Gladney when he did not immediately re-enlist after seven years of service in the National Guard, which included a deployment to Baghdad, Iraq, in 2003.

As a member of the Navy Supply Corps who works for the Defense Logistics Agency, Navy Capt. Jim Patton is especially attuned to the importance of logistical support for missions.

Two years is much too long to determine service disabilities, especially when the injuries obviously qualify a servicemember for full benefits and compensation, a senior DoD official said in Washington, D.C. recently.