Fort Pickett News

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced Friday that the new Virginia National Guard Readiness Center in Winchester will be named the Cherry-Beasley Readiness Center in honor of Staff Sgt.

Randomly select eight high school students, or adults for that matter, sit them down under a tree and give them a group task to accomplish.

Portsmouth Naval Medical Center has earned a gold seal of approval from the Joint Commission, a national body that accredits health care organizations, the Navy announced.

Col. Blake C. Ortner of Stafford County has taken command of a Staunton-based Army National Guard unit known as the Stonewall Brigade.

Brunswick -- Ellwood Wineholt still has the last uniform he received before he retired from the Army in 1987.

Federal economic stimulus money is being put into action on National Guard airfields, family readiness centers, dining and maintenance facilities, fire stations and state and wing headquarters from coast to coast.

Loading... 1 of 4 Click for more Peter Vogel of ARM Geophysics crosses a field at Fort Monroe in Hampton on Thursday pushing a cart equipped with an electromagnetometer and GPS.

Two Martinsville ministers will become the first two chaplains to be deployed from the same area and unit in the Virginia Army National Guard.

Loading... Video: Blowing things up with big guns Brian Clark The Virginian-Pilot 1 of 3 A member of a firing battery tosses aside a spent shell after the M119A2 howitzer was fired Tuesday afternoon during training by Virginia National Guardsmen at Fort Pickett.