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  • April

    Dr. John Weatherly

    Weatherly named chief of Terrestrial and Cryospheric Sciences Branch

    HANOVER, N.H. (April 3, 2018)—Dr. Joseph Corriveau, director of the Cold Regions Research and

  • Master Planning Brings Order to Contingency Base Planning

    USACE Transatlantic Division’s Middle East District (MED) reached out to the Fort Worth District for master planning support. An agreement was formalized in 2016 and the first contingency master planning conference focused on CENTCOM recently took place in Winchester, Virginia. In attendance were representatives from MED, the Fort Worth District and U.S. Army Central.
  • Representatives from MED, the Fort Worth District and U.S. Army Central took part in the first planning conference focused on USCENTCOM in Winchester, Va.

    Master Planning Brings Order to Contingency Base Planning

    USACE’s Middle East District (MED) reached out to the Fort Worth District for master planning support. An agreement was formalized in 2016 and the first planning conference focused on CENTCOM recently took place at the Middle East District in Winchester, Virginia. In attendance were representatives from MED, the Fort Worth District and U.S. Army Central.
  • Crew aboard the Survey Vessel CATLETT help a boater come aboard from his disabled vessel in the Chesapeake Bay during a rescue operation Thursday April 5, 2018. The CATLETT’s U.S. Army Corps of Engineers crew was conducting a routine condition survey of the Tolchester Channel when she responded to a mayday call, rescuing the boater and bringing him back to the Corps of Engineers’ facility at Fort McHenry where local emergency medical services assisted him further.

    Newest Army Corps survey vessel performs maiden rescue in Chesapeake Bay

    The Survey Vessel CATLETT crew was busy conducting a condition survey of the Tolchester Channel in the Chesapeake Bay last week when a mayday call came over the radio from a boater in dire straits.
  • This year Bulltown Historic Area at Burnsville Lake participated in the annual Park Day event on Saturday April 7th.

    Lend A Hand For History Event

    Since 1996, the Civil War Trust has sponsored Park Day, an annual hands-on preservation event to help Civil War, Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 battlefields and historic sites take on maintenance projects.