Fort Belvoir Community Hospital revealed its new name at a memorialization ceremony on May 16. The hospital was originally given a placeholder name until officials could find someone that embodies the base’s values to name it in honor of. The new name for the hospital is Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center, named after Dr. Alexander Thomas Augusta of Norfolk. Augusta was the first African American physician in the United States Army and the first Black professor of medicine in the United States.

Program Executive Officer (PEO) Soldier officially announced Col. Anthony Gibbs as the new project manager of Project Manager Soldier Warrior (PM SWAR) at a change of charter ceremony, May 26, at a crowded Veterans Hall at the National Museum of the United States Army at Fort Belvoir. Program Executive Officer Brig. Gen. Christopher Schneider presided over the ceremony, which welcomed Gibbs and highlighted the contributions of outgoing SWAR Project Manager Col. Troy Denomy to the organization, the Army and its Soldiers.

As the moving season — from May to September — gear ups for service members and families, persistent problems with labor shortages make it difficult to predict what those moves will look like. But there have been improvements in the rules for making a permanent change of station move, relating to replacement costs for items lost or destroyed and the handling of lithium batteries, privately owned firearms without serial numbers, gun safes, electronic products and other items, according to officials with the U.S. Transportation Command, the agency responsible for the household goods process.

On May 11 at the Fort Belvoir Officers Club, Col. Loyd Beal III culminated his tenure as Project Manager, Terrestrial Sensors (PM TS) in passing the charter to his successor, Lareina Adams. Mark Kitz, Program Executive Officer, Intelligence, Electronic Warfare, and Sensors hosted the event. With more than 400 personnel dispersed across many areas of responsibility, PM TS procures, fields, and supports numerous state-of-the-art ground sensor systems globally, including within the United States at our southwestern border and in the National Capital Region.

Fort Belvoir named Garth D. Newell its newest command sergeant major with an assumption of responsibility ceremony on May 19. Newell is taking over as the installation’s top non-commissioned officer from Sgt. Maj. Daniel Hopkins, who became interim command sergeant major in January after the retirement of ​​Sgt. Maj. Gregory M. Kleinholz.