Largest USO Care Center in History Opens Near DC

Our nation’s ill and injured troops and their families and caregivers have a new home near the District.

Tuesday morning, the USO unveiled its newest place for servicemen and women to relax and heal with honor at Fort Belvoir — and it just happens to also be the largest USO Center in history.

From a Music Room for therapeutic “jam sessions” to a socializing Sports Lounge (including Full Golf Swing simulator!) to an art room, a garden and a kitchen for a true home cooked meal, the new USO Warrior and Family Center at Fort Belvoir, “says in structure and activities what words can’t say…” explained Lieutenant General William J. Troy, Director of Army Staff, at the opening. “We care about you, we love you, and we are going to be with you the entire way.”

The USO has increasingly evolved to handle the needs of service members stateside, specifically designing facilities — like the new Center — to promote a community of care and provide resources, programs and support to men and women in uniform as they prepare to return to active duty or transition to the next phase of life.

The Warrior and Family Center Fort at Belvoir is the first of two such centers to be completed in the United States. The second will be located adjacent to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center at Naval Support Activity Bethesda, Maryland, and is scheduled to be completed early 2014.

*Images courtesy USO Photographer Mike Theiler