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Forrest Gump actor Gary Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band are playing for troops and veterans while celebrating service members on Memorial Day.

Actor Gary Sinise came to Fort Belvoir May 25 to perform with his band in the Gary Sinise Foundation’s Invincible Spirit Festival, hosted by the USO at Long Parade Field.

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.