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WASHINGTON -- Despite the impacts of COVID-19, the Army successfully met all its mission requirements in fiscal year 2021 including a no-notice deployment of the 82nd Airborne Division to Afghanistan in August, the service’s top enlisted leader said Thursday.
Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael A. Grinston considers that no small feat. He said the Army’s success can largely be credited to the service’s People Strategy, which prioritizes optimizing the talents and abilities of Soldiers while building unit cohesion to boost mission readiness.
The commission tasked with recommending new names for nearly a dozen military installations honoring Confederate leaders is seeking citizen input on what to name Fort Belvoir and three other Virginia Army posts: Fort A.P. Hill, Fort Lee and Fort Pickett.
Of the current firefighters working on Fort Belvoir, Fire Chief Kevin Good estimates that he and about 10 others were on duty Sept. 11, 2001.
“I remember those feelings that day: helplessness, confusion, anger,” Good said. “As we move farther away from that day, we must continue to carry those feelings and remember exactly what that felt like.”
Col. Christopher C. Rankin, who recently served as the Operations Division Chief with the U.S. Special Operations Command and liaison officer to U.S. Cyber Command, assumed command of the National Ground Intelligence Center during a ceremony on July13.
Elementary school children are invited to climb aboard the Rocky Railway, as Fort Belvoir’s Chapel community hosts Vacation Bible School, Aug. 1-5, every evening from 6:30-8:30 p.m.