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    Zama teens make bid for top spot in engineering contest

    Sixteen Zama American High School engineering students recently competed in a realistic bid-proposal contest, giving them a taste of what they can experience if they continue their educational pursuit of science, technology, engineering and math careers.
  • VIRGINIA -- Pete DeMattei (left), and Blake Burd (right), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Middle East District, carry a log up and down a hill with teammates during one of the 25 obstacles on the course. Seven U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Middle East District employees were part of a large team that participated in the 10-mile endurance event to honor a fallen Navy SEAL and raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project.

    USACE Middle East District has some Tough Mudders

    Seven U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Middle East District employees were part of a large team that participated in the 10-mile endurance event to honor a fallen Navy SEAL and raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project.
  • IRAQ -- Government officials and representatives from Iraq's Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works cut the ribbon at a ceremony celebrating the facility's completion.

    USACE helps build a cleaner, more sanitary Fallujah

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Middle East District, in conjunction with Iraq's Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works, recently oversaw the completion of a new wastewater collection and treatment system for the city of Fallujah in Iraq's Al-Anbar Governate.

  • USACE helps build a cleaner, more sanitary Fallujah

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Middle East District, in conjunction with Iraq's Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works, recently oversaw the completion of a new wastewater collection and treatment system for the city of Fallujah in Iraq's Al-Anbar Governate.
  • Maj. Seth Wacker and Robert Isenberg of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers South Pacific Division's 59th Forward Engineering Support Team "Advanced" (center), visit a freshwater site at Santa Clara Pueblo and meet with Adrian Garcia, a Santa Clara tribal member.

    District Achieves Another First for Tribal Program

    In the first meeting of its kind, Robert Isenberg and Maj. Seth Wacker, members of the South Pacific Division's 59th Forward Engineering Support Team - Advanced (FEST) joined Albuquerque District Tribal Liaison Ron Kneebone in a visit with representatives of two New Mexico Pueblos.
  • AFGHANISTAN — A Chinook helicopter bringing Regional Command West representatives to the Shindand Hospital ground breaking ceremony prepares to land, Jan. 28, 2012.

    Ground breaks for new hospital in Shindand

    A ground breaking ceremony marked the start of construction on a new 28-bed hospital in Shindand, Herat province Jan. 28. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Afghanistan Engineer District-South designed the $4.8 million hospital and is overseeing construction.
  • WASHINGTON, D.C — The Honorable Dr. Joseph W. Westphal, under secretary of the U.S. Army (left), and Maj. Gen. Merdith "Bo" Temple, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers acting commander and chief of engineers, have a breakout discussion during the USACE Leaders Conference here, Jan. 24, 2012. The leadership conference brings together all USACE senior leaders to discuss strategies and best business practices throughout the Corps of Engineers.

    Army Corps of Engineers: Building international partnerships

    Under Secretary of the Army Joseph W. Westphal spoke with senior leaders from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during their 2012 leader conference, highlighting the vital role of USACE as the Army faces unprecedented budget challenges.

  • Mississippi Valley Division identifies, communicates elevated risk of 2012 flooding due to damages from Great Flood of 2011

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi Valley Division, is identifying and developing communication strategies for the elevated threat in the Mississippi River’s flood risk reduction system brought about by 2011 flood damages.
  • OSCAR, Ky. — Kentucky National Guard members Pfc. David Barrow, Spc. Tommy Wyatt and Pvt. Cedric Bransford, 2113th Transportation Company, assist local residents in flood relief mission here, April 27, 2011.

    St. Louis District, Mississippi Valley Division prepare for 2012 flood season

    After the monumental flood events of 2011, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Mississippi Valley Division carefully inspected and completed damage assessments reports for all levees, channel improvements, navigation channels and structures associated with the Mississippi River and Tributaries, or MR&T, project, one of this country's most comprehensive and successful flood control systems.

  • USACE districts collaborate to provide essential services in Afghanistan

    Teamwork is a tenet of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as it fulfills its mission to provide engineering services to the nation in peace and war, and nowhere is that better exemplified than the collaboration that exists among the districts of the Transatlantic Division in delivering services that support construction in Afghanistan.
  • Coastal Engineer Donald Cresitello and Resident Engineer Paul Jalowski, both with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District, chat as sand is pumped into place on Monmouth Beach, N.J.

    Army Corps doesn't play shell games with turtle protection

    Every time the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers begins a beach replenishment project, it takes measures to protect sea trtles that comply with environmental policies established by the National Marine Fisheries Service, or NMFS.
  • A wounded warrior uses a rock-climbing wall as part of his physical therapy at the Military Advanced Training Center at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Soldiers in Warrior in Transition units at Forts Stewart, Benning, Gordon and Bragg now have the option to learn valuable construction and engineering skills as part of Operation Warfighter.

    Corps of Engineers offers internships for Warriors in Transition

    he internships are offered as part of Operation Warfighter, a temporary assignment internship program developed by the Department of Defense for service members that are recovering at military treatment facilities throughout the U.S. The program provides wounded, ill or injured service members with meaningful activity outside of the hospital environment and offers a supportive means of transition back to the military or civilian workforce.
  • AFGHANISTAN — U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Afghanistan Engineering District-South's ongoing construction at an Afghan national army facility in the Herat area.

    Data-based business dashboard drives project success in Afghanistan Engineer District-South

    A "dashboard" of statistics helps U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Afghanistan Engineer District-South move rapidly and efficiently toward completing its construction projects in Afghanistan on time.
  • HAWAII — Lt. Col. Douglas B. Guttormsen, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Honolulu district commander (second from right), recently attended the Association of Pacific Ports (APP) winter conference at Ko'olina on Oahu and presented a briefing called, the "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Your Partner in the Pacific."

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers partners with the Association of Pacific Ports

    The main purpose of the Pacific Ports Association is to bring together leaders from ports and businesses from across the Pacific to build partnerships, share best practices and learn what is working and what is not as ports throughout the Pacific face similar challenges in different environments.
  • The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Afghanistan Engineer District-South completed a $3.1 million bypass project so Afghans have an alternative to driving over the Arghistan River bridge in Kandahar province.

    Corps of Engineers completes river bypass for Afghans

    Afghans now have an alternative to driving over the Arghistan River bridge in Kandahar province.
  • Lt. Col. Philip Secrist, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia district commander, speaks about the Cape May beach nourishment project along with representatives from Cape May, New Jersey Department of Environment Protection, the U.S. Coast Guard, and Congressional staff for Congressman Frank LoBiondo and Senator Frank R. Lautenberg. The $9 million project placed approximately 600,000 cubic yards of sand onto the beach and was cost shared by USACE, the Coast Guard, NJDEP and Cape May City.

    Army Corps, partners, celebrate Cape May project

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its state, federal and local partners marked the completion of a more than $9 million beach replenishment project, Jan. 18, 2012 with a ceremony at the Coast Guard base here.
  • Crew members of the Dredge McFarland rescued a boater who had reportedly been floating in 48 degree water for nearly three hours and was only minutes away from being carried out of the harbor and into the open ocean.

    Army Corps dredge rescues boater

    Crew members of the Dredge McFarland rescued a boater who had reportedly been floating in 48 degree water for nearly three hours and was only minutes away from being carried out of the harbor and into the open ocean when the McFarland crew spotted him and plucked him out of the channel.
  • FLORIDA — Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works (right), received the James D. Webb Award at the Everglades Coalition Conference Jan. 7, 2012. Julie Hill-Gabriel (center), State Everglades Coalition Co-Chair, presented the award along with Dawn Shirreffs (left), National Everglades Coalition Co-Chair.

    Corps discusses environmental, economic benefits of restoration at Everglades Coalition Conference

    Representatives from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District spoke at the 27th Annual Everglades Coalition Conference, Jan. 5-8, 2012, in Stuart, Fla., the largest annual forum for discourse on Everglades restoration and conservation.

  • 99 percent of 1st quarter 2012 construction goal met

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District-South exceeded its December goal by placing more than $64 million worth of construction, or 105.3 percent.

  • Assistant Army Secretary meets with USACE, MCoE, and Fort Benning military and community leaders

    The Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment met with the South Atlantic Division - Corps of Engineers and Fort Benning leaders during a visit to U.S. army Maneuver Center of Excellence.

  • USACE, DoDDS, SHAPE team up to deliver 21st century-style schools to international community

    Representatives from SHAPE, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District, Department of Defense Dependants Schools-Europe, Belgian Federal Government and City of Mons marked the beginning of the first phase of construction on new facilities that will replace the aging SHAPE American and International Schools with a groundbreaking ceremony Jan. 11 on the SHAPE International School grounds.

  • Corps of Engineers workers deliver donations to Kabul orphans

    Eight U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employees distributed two dozen boxes of donated jackets, hats, gloves and other winter clothes to a large orphanage on Jan. 14, a day when heavy snow fell and the temperature reached 32 degrees in the Afghan capital.

  • USACE turns over operations and maintenance responsibility to Afghan Air Force

    While this is the first O&M transition to the Afghan Air Force, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Afghanistan Engineer District-South transferred O&M responsibility for some of the facilities on the Afghan National Army's Camp Hero near Kandahar in July 2011.

  • Corps of Engineers leads coalition effort to save coho salmon

    In the winter of 2011, biologists funded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers counted a record number of wild juvenile coho salmon in the downstream portions of the Russian River system in western Sonoma County. Adult coho also appear to be reproducing in some of their historical tributaries for the first time since large-scale monitoring of the species began in 2005.

  • USACE trains Afghans to operate and maintain facilities

    Successfully transitioning operations and maintenance responsibilities to the Afghan National Army's Directorate of Public Works, is the underlying reason for a new training program designed to teach Afghans the fundamentals of building operations and maintenance.

  • Power teams rapidly deploy to help east coast communities

    Recently, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers emergency response personnel deployed to various states in the eastern U.S. to help with response and recovery efforts after Hurricane Irene left a path of destruction from North Carolina to Vermont. This was the first time USACE deployed multiple power teams and their resources to multiple states simultaneously.