Fort Barfoot


Fort Pickett was officially redesignated Fort Barfoot in honor of Col. Van T. Barfoot, a World War II Medal of Honor recipient with extensive Virginia ties, during a ceremony March 24, 2023. The post is one of nine U.S. Army installations being renamed based on the Naming Commission’s recommendations to remove the names and symbols honoring or commemorate the Confederate States of America.

Located near Blackstone, Fort Barfoot has more than 225 full-time state and federal employees provide support to tenant and training units on approximately 41,000 acres featuring a combination of open and wooded terrain maneuver areas and 21 ranges capable of supporting almost any weapons system in the U.S. Army inventory with barracks to support more than 5,000 personnel as well as an Army airfield operation.

Fort Barfoot News

Pfc. Nicholas Warren and Sgt. Ivo Garner are named the Virginia Army National Guard’s Soldier and Noncommissioned Officer of the Year during a ceremony following the VaARNG Best Warrior Competition March 16, 2025, at Fort Barfoot, Virginia. Warren, assigned to the Rocky Mount-based 229th Chemical Company, 1030th Transportation Battalion, 329th Regional Support Group, and Garner, assigned to the Lynchburg-based Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, will represent Virginia at the Region II BWC later this year. Warren and Garner outlasted their competition over four days of events designed to test their Soldier skills, strength, endurance, marksmanship and knowledge. More photos from the event can be found at https://vngpao.info/ywy9vzfc.
329th RSG’s Warren, 116th IBCT’s Garner tops at Best Warrior Competition
March 21, 2025
Virginia Army National Guard Soldiers assigned to the 329th Regional Support Group and the 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team took top honors at the 2025 VaARNG Best Warrior Competition March 13-16, 2025, at Fort Barfoot, Virginia. 
Fort Barfoot Fire and Emergency Services personnel manage a prescribed burn along with the staff from Natural Resources Division of the Fort Barfoot Department of Public Works March 12, 2025, at Fort Barfoot, Virginia. The prescribed burn helped to support military training by reducing fuel loads in the area, thereby lessening the risk for dangerous and intense wildfires that can be caused by incendiary devices and lead to training downtime. Other objectives of the burn were to improve wildlife habitat and timber stand improvement in forest management areas. Virginia National Guard aviation crews also conducted aerial fire suppression training during the burn - view photos at https://vngpao.info/3bnjy5f4.
VNG aviation crews train on fire suppression during Fort Barfoot prescribed burn
March 17, 2025
Virginia National Guard aviation crews assigned to the Sandston-based 2nd Battalion, 224th Aviation Regiment, 29th Infantry Division trained on aerial fire suppression with UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters equipped with water buckets March 12, 2025, during a prescribed burn at Fort Barfoot, Virginia.
Capt. David Porter (second from left), Sgt. 1st Class Christina McDermott (second from right) and Maj. Will Cochrane (far right), pose with Soldiers from the 1st Infantry Division chaplain section in January 2025 at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California. The three Virginia National Guard Soldiers provided chaplain support to the Fort Riley- based 1st Infantry Division during its NTC training rotation Jan. 17- 31, 2025.
134th Chaplain Detachment supports 1st ID at National Training Center
March 11, 2025
Three Virginia National Guard Soldiers assigned to the Fort Barfoot-based 134th Chaplain Detachment traveled to the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, California, Jan. 17- 31, 2025, where they provided chaplain support to the Fort Riley- based 1st Infantry Division during its NTC training rotation.
Virginia National Guard and Fort Barfoot leaders officially break ground on a new Ammunition Supply Point administration building during a ceremony February. 18, 2025, at Fort Barfoot, Virginia. The new facility, once complete, will offer an upgraded, modernized facility with more operating space than the current facility, which was built in 1976. The Fort Barfoot ASP is one of the busiest on the East Coast, managing millions of dollars’ worth of ammunition across more than 20 magazines. The new facility is expected to be completed by early 2026.
Fort Barfoot breaks ground on new ASP facility
Feb. 21, 2025
Virginia National Guard and Fort Barfoot leaders ceremonially broke ground on a new Ammunition Supply Point administration building Feb. 18, 2025, at Fort Barfoot, Virginia. The groundbreaking ceremony took place in the footprint of the planned new facility, construction of which is already underway.
Lt. Col. Eric Quinn takes command of Maneuver Training Center Fort Barfoot from Col. James C. Shaver Jr. during a ceremony Feb. 1, 2025, at Fort Barfoot, Virginia. Brig. Gen. Charles Martin Jr., commander of the Virginia Army National Guard, presided over the traditional exchange of colors marking the transfer of the garrison command from Shaver to Quinn. Command Sgt. Maj. Jason M. Mendel, the garrison command sergeant major, was the keeper of the colors. Soldiers assigned to the Troutville-based 29th Infantry Division Band provided ceremonial music for the event.
Quinn succeeds Shaver as Fort Barfoot garrison commander
Feb. 10, 2025
Lt. Col. Eric Quinn assumed command of Fort Barfoot from Col. James C. Shaver Jr. during a change of command ceremony Feb. 1, 2025, at Fort Barfoot, Virginia.

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