Fort Belvoir

[ bel-vawr ]

noun

1. a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Virginia on the Potomac.

Example Sentences

Julius W. Becton Jr., a three-star general who was tasked with defending Europe from a Russian invasion during the Cold War as the first Black commander of an Army corps, and later led the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Washington, D.C., school system, died on Nov. 28 at Fort Belvoir, Va. He was 97.

From New York Times

The group are dual Iranian-US citizens and their flight landed in Fort Belvoir, Virginia, on Tuesday morning after they'd initially been flown from Tehran to Doha.

From BBC

"The nightmare is finally over," said Babak Namazi, speaking with his arm around his returning brother Siamak at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

From Reuters

The prisoners landed at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, with clapping and cheers heard in the predawn hours.

From Seattle Times

In 2022, Capt. Ruehrwein participated in a simulation at the National Museum of the United States Army, in Fort Belvoir, Va., where officers learned the basics of forensic documentation, emergency preparedness and war-zone conservation techniques.

From New York Times