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  • December

    Pictured is the Eagle Marsh berm construction at Graham-McCullough Ditch, Fort Wayne, Ind.

    Berm helps prevent Asian Carp migration at Eagle Marsh, Ind.

    Berm construction within Eagle Marsh along the Graham-McCullough Ditch, Fort Wayne, Indiana, is
  • Troy Morris (center), project manager, briefs Col. Kirk Gibbs, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District, at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, Dec. 7. Morris guided Gibbs and Shari Brandt, resident engineer for the Tucson Resident Office, through the newly completed 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group hangar, a 76,746-square-foot facility that features a two-story administration section housing a technical order library, records storage, tool cribs, equipment storage and an observation deck overlooking the hangar floor.

    New hangar unveiled at Davis-Monthan

    Col. Kirk Gibbs, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District joined Brig. Gen. Steven J. Bleymaier, commander, Ogden Air Logistics Complex, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, and Tim Gray, deputy director, 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, to cut the ribbon officially opening the 309 AMARG hangar at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson Dec. 7.
  • Risk cadre members observe newly placed riprap slope protection placed to prevent erosion on a steep slope at the Beach City Dam in Ohio for the Huntington District July 2012.

    Risk cadre renews commitment to Corps’ most vulnerable structures

    SAVANNAH, Ga. – Across the Corps’ portfolio of dams and levees requiring rehabilitation, a risk cadre team here sets out to identify issues that could lead to further degradation of structures and pose economic or life-threatening risks to surrounding communities.
  • (Right) Society of American Military Engineers Nashville Post member John Hall, administers the oath of office to incoming SAME President Lt. Col. Stephen F. Murphy, Nashville District commander during an installation ceremony in the Tennessee Engineering Center at the Adventure Science Center.

    Murphy installed as SAME Nashville Post president

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Dec. 16, 2015) – The Nashville Post of the Society of American Military Engineers installed the commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District as its new president today during an installation ceremony in the Tennessee Engineering Center at the Adventure Science Center.
  • The community of a little more than 700 people located in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay is experiencing erosion, sea-level rise and subsidence. Multiple projects, including an active dredging program and soon to be built jetty, are ongoing or being studied by The Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to find ways to combat the effects of these elements. (U.S. Army photo/Patrick Bloodgood)

    Bay islanders receive status update on needed jetty

    In front of a mostly packed house in Tangier Island’s combined-school cafeteria, a panel of Norfolk District leaders, engineers and scientists briefed the community on progress of the jetty project.