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Fort Belvoir (/ ˈ b ɛ l v w ɑːr / BEL-vwar) is a United States Army installation and a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. It was developed on the site of the former Belvoir plantation , seat of the prominent Fairfax family for whom Fairfax County was named.
The Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center is a United States Department of Defense medical facility located on Fort Belvoir, Virginia, outside of Washington D.C. In conjunction with Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the hospital provides the Military Health System medical capabilities of the National Capital Region Medical Directorate (NCR MD), a joint unit providing ...
AKO was deemed "the world's largest intranet in the early 2000's." [3] One of every two deployed soldiers accessed the portal daily for mission and personal purposes, and in 2008 AKO recorded its one-billionth login. [4] AKO had been expanded to the broader DoD community through Defense Knowledge Online, essentially just a rebranding.
The United States Army Military Intelligence Readiness Command (MIRC, The MIRC, formally USAMIRC [1]) was stood up as the first Army Reserve functional command in 2005. . Headquartered at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, MIRC is composed mostly of reserve soldiers in units throughout the United States, and encompasses the bulk of Army Military Intelligence reserve units, consisting of over 40 strategic ...
The new command, along with the United States Army Forces Command, was created from the Continental Army Command (CONARC) located at Fort Monroe, Virginia. That action was the major innovation in the Army's post-Vietnam reorganization, in the face of realization that CONARC's obligations and span of control were too broad for efficient focus.
USAASC was established in its current form on October 1, 2002. USAASC was designated as a direct reporting unit (DRU) of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology (ASA(ALT)) on October 16, 2006.
Limited research and information services concerning official symbolic items are also provided to the general public. The Institute of Heraldry is located at 9325 Gunston Road, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, a military installation in the U.S. Army Military District of Washington. The institute employs 22 Department of the Army civilians.
U.S. Army Col. Martha Wilkins, the commander of the Fort Belvoir, Va., – based 55th Sustainment Brigade, and U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Levi Maynard, the top enlisted Soldier for the unit, case the colors at an end of mission ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 4 April.The unit is nearing the end of its nine-month deployment where it helped ...