Story by Jefferson Wolfe | U.S. Army Fort Lee | 12.13.2024
HOPEWELL, Va. — Fort Gregg-Adams leaders toured Hopewell’s wastewater treatment facility Thursday morning to enhance awareness on integrated wastewater initiatives and to advance shared interests....
Story by Vince Little | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District | 07.23.2019
NORFOLK, Va. – James River Federal Navigation Project engineers are ramping up efforts to minimize shoaling effects and improve safe navigation along Central Virginia’s winding watershed. Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Cottrell Contracting Corp. commenced maintenance dredging Sunday in the 7.6-mile Dancing Point-Swann Point channel....
Story by Sgt. Desiree D King | U.S. Marine Corps Forces Central Command | 03.29.2019
Its 7 a.m. and the Middle-Eastern sun has just started chasing back the mist covering a line of mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles. American flags wave and snap from the vehicles’ antennas, while idling engines hum with a consistently deep timbre. A platoon of infantry Marines with India Company, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, attached to Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task......
Story by Lesley Atkinson | U.S. Army Fort Lee | 06.30.2016
Ray Kozakewicz Production Assistant In 1916, Petersburg was widely known as the peanut capital of the United States with seven factories producing two million bushels annually. By September 1917, the Cacade City, as it was called at that time, featured the largest military cantonment in America. It was “built on a scale the world never knew” read the introduction to a special 64-page......
Story by Lesley Atkinson | U.S. Army Fort Lee | 05.19.2016
FORT LEE, Va. (May 19, 2016) -- “Fort Lee is an integral part of who we are as a city. Most of us have family members or friends who work or have retired there. A lot of our stores and restaurants depend on the patronage of post workers and families. It’s a partnership we have long-cherished and will continue to nurture in the years ahead.”...
