FORT GREGG-ADAMS, Virginia, April 13 -- The U.S. Army Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation Command issued the following news: By Shelia Fourman Command Sgt. Maj. Jimmy Sellers, senior enlisted leader of Army Materiel Command, hosted a Sustainment Noncommissioned Officer Townhall, April 5, at Beaty Theater. "The Sustainment NCO town hall is a platform that allows senior leaders to provide an understanding on the direction the Army and sustainment NCO cohort are going, talent management, a  more

MARINE CORPS BASE QUANTICO, Virginia, April 8 -- The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news: By Lance Cpl. Sean LeClaire Nearly 13,000 staff sergeants in the Marine Corps competed for 21 slots to meritoriously promote to gunnery sergeant, and a Quantico Marine beat about 99% of the Marines for that promotion. For his "outstanding performance of his duties and exceptional character," as his promotion warrant reads, Gunnery Sgt. Jonathan M. Cerecedes was meritoriously promoted to   more

RICHMOND, Virginia, April 13 -- The Virginia Department of Education issued the following news release: Avanti Kollaram Yamamoto, a mathematics teacher at Hanover County Public Schools' Atlee High School, has been named the 2025 Virginia Regional Teacher of the Year (Region 1) by the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE). Yamamoto has served as a teacher and mentor for more than 10 years, eight of which have been at Atlee High School. "Mrs. Yamamoto challenges every one of her students to no  more