Fort Belvoir’s annual Army Emergency Relief Campaign begins Wednesday with an opening ceremony at 11 a.m. at the Community Center.

Army Emergency Relief provided more than $252 million in assistance to more than a quarter million Soldiers and family members between 2003 and 2007.

Housing experts said some military families are finding themselves in a precarious situation when it comes to selling their houses and relocating, according to a recent Army News Service release

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As a member of the Traffic Coordination and Management Plan Working Group, Fort Belvoir’s Transportation Demand Coordinator, Juanita Green, has been tasked with finding alternative ways to alleviate the traffic flow on and off the installation.

A recent Army and Air Force Exchange Service survey found that the second most important customer service item for shoppers is price matching. However, the same survey found only 52 percent had ever taken advantage of it at the AAFES PX.

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.