New Kent Charles City Chronicle

News for New Kent County and Charles City County, Virginia | November 8, 2025

Relinquishing control after service to United States Army

By Community Member | June 13, 2024 5:08 pm

Lieutenant Colonel Barry White (right), a native of Charles City, relinquishes command of the 840th Transportation Army Battalion to Lieutenant Colonel Richard Rogers during a June 5 ceremony at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait. Under White’s leadership the battalion maintained critical partnerships with host nations, ensuring the surface deployment and distribution command, and the theater had access to stratetic ports required to execute dynamic deployment and distribution mission sets.