Federal, state and local officials tour planned FASTC site
U. S. Senator Tim Kaine leads a group of federal, state and local officials touring the site of the planned Foreign Affairs Security Training Center May 5, 2014, at Fort Pickett, Va., and Pickett Park in Nottoway County. Joining Kaine on the visit were Fifth District Congressman Robert Hurt, Delegate Thomas C. Wright, Jr., Blackstone Mayor Billy Coleburn and Nottoway County Administrator Ronald E. Roark, as well as Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security Gregory Starr and Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Long. Jr., the Adjutant General of Virginia. After an information briefing by Lt. Col. Preston Scott, garrison commander of Fort Pickett, Chuck Raderstorf, FASTC project director for Department of State, and Abigail K. Low, project manager from the General Services Administration, the officials took a bus tour to see first hand some of the locations where the training center will be constructed. After a multi-year search, Fort Pickett and Pickett Park in Nottoway County were recently announced as the site for the training facility to be dedicated to providing consolidated hard skills security and life saving training to the foreign affairs community. Read more about the project at go.usa.gov/kzgP. (Photo by Cotton Puryear, Virginia National Guard Public Affairs)
Federal, state and local officials tour planned FASTC site
U. S. Senator Tim Kaine leads a group of federal, state and local officials touring the site of the planned Foreign Affairs Security Training Center May 5, 2014, at Fort Pickett, Va., and Pickett Park in Nottoway County. Joining Kaine on the visit were Fifth District Congressman Robert Hurt, Delegate Thomas C. Wright, Jr., Blackstone Mayor Billy Coleburn and Nottoway County Administrator Ronald E. Roark, as well as Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security Gregory Starr and Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Long. Jr., the Adjutant General of Virginia. After an information briefing by Lt. Col. Preston Scott, garrison commander of Fort Pickett, Chuck Raderstorf, FASTC project director for Department of State, and Abigail K. Low, project manager from the General Services Administration, the officials took a bus tour to see first hand some of the locations where the training center will be constructed. After a multi-year search, Fort Pickett and Pickett Park in Nottoway County were recently announced as the site for the training facility to be dedicated to providing consolidated hard skills security and life saving training to the foreign affairs community. Read more about the project at go.usa.gov/kzgP. (Photo by Cotton Puryear, Virginia National Guard Public Affairs)