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  • October

    Patrick Sheehan, Tennessee Emergency Management Agency director, speaks during a quarterly Tennessee Silver Jackets meeting with federal, state and local partners at the TEMA Headquarters in Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 31, 2017. (USACE photo by Lee Roberts)

    Mansker Basin study to support flood preparedness

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Oct. 31, 2017) – The Tennessee Silver Jackets team announced today that a one-year study of the Mansker Basin is underway to develop real-time simulation modeling for Sumner and Davidson Counties and the cities of Nashville, Millersville, Goodlettsville and Hendersonville.
  • Matt Bonner, a civil engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque District, and a quality assurance inspector in Florida, reviews a completed blue roof installation in Belle Grade, Florida, Oct. 23, 2017. Bonner volunteered to support Operation Blue Roof following Hurricane Irma. To date, the Corps has installed more than 11,000 temporary blue roofs for homeowners across Florida.

    Corps monitors blue roof mission for quality

    Shortly after Hurricane Irma pummeled Florida with Category IV winds Sept. 10, Matt Bonner, a civil engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque District, received a phone call asking whether he'd be interested in deploying to support the hurricane recovery. Little did he realize that he'd be on a plane the following morning heading to Florida.
  • Michael Fedoroff poses with the Historic Preservation staff and children from the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, the TNTCX, and the U.S. Forest Service. The photo was taken at the Desoto National Forest after a field visit to Choctaw Ancestral lands.

    Fedoroff selected for national tribal role

    Michael Fedoroff has recently been selected for a developmental assignment as the new deputy to the director of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Tribal Nations Technical Center of Expertise, or TNTCX, in Albuquerque, N.M. The virtual position will allow him to work from Mobile while assisting to manage the TNTCX’s tribal consultation support program for both military and civil works.
  • Aerial of Coney Island, Brooklyn, NYC.

    Army Continues Momentum 5 Years after Superstorm Sandy

    The District has built momentum to further enhance areas of resiliency and reducing risks from future coastal storms.
  • Bohol, Philippines

    Far East District Foreign Travel Checklist

            Civilian (Official) Foreign Travel Review the personnel entry and country clearance