Fort Pickett News

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.

Brig. Gen. Stephen L. Huxtable assumed the duties of the Assistant Adjutant General of Virginia for Army from Brig.

IMCOM launched a fire prevention campaign March 31. Goal is to recognize, improve and practice fire safety.

Members of the 37th Canadian Brigade Group from the Woodstock armoury attended Exercise Maritime Raider at Fort Pickett Virginia recently.

Reservists from Fredericton are returning home after spending the last seven-plus days engaged in a major training exercise designed to prepare them for possible combat duty in Afghanistan.

" Freedom Alliance announced the opening of the application period for the summer 2009 Military Leadership Academy.

Army reserve members from Newfoundland and Labrador are working their way this week through complex military manoeuvres in preparation for possible deployment to Afghanistan.

More than 400 Army reserve soldiers from 37 Canadian Brigade Group are in Fort Pickett, Va., for a major training exercise.

Reservists from left: Cpl. Elwood Crocker, M/Cpl. Chris Mahoney and Sgt. Amanda Thompson take out the last piece of equipment from a pickup truck before heading off to Fort Pickett in Virginia, USA.

Cpl. Kyle Michelin, left, and Pte. Brian Pinksen with the Second Battalion of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment were in Grand Falls-Windsor this past weekend taking part in a military exercise.

The Virginia National Guard's 329th Regional Support Group received orders Friday to prepare 40 soldiers for an expected 12 months of active duty in Iraq.

Soldiers from the Virginia National Guard are being mobilized for active duty in Iraq.

The Virginia Army National Guard's 1032nd Transportation Company base in Gate City has won the Army's annual Philip A. Connelly Award for Excellence in Army Food Service in the National Guard Field Kitchen ...

N.C. National Guard unit was staggered by 5 deaths in Iraq; it's now staffed with less-grizzled faces, and off to war again Pfc.