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  • August

    By all accounts, Donna Sherman, the records manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Middle East District, embodies the quiet professional. The only permanent records management employee when she took charge of the records holding facility eight years ago, she now leads a staff of four employees who manage over 13,600 boxes of paper records for the district.

    Records management team among best in the Corps

    By all accounts, Donna Sherman, the records manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Middle East District, embodies the quiet professional. The only permanent records management employee when she took charge of the records holding facility eight years ago, she now leads a staff of four employees who manage over 13,600 boxes of paper records for the district.
  • Brazilian Students in HEC’s most recent training session on the Application of GIS for Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling.

    HEC Provides “GIS for Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling” Training in Brazil

    ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA.  The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and Brazilian Agência Nacional de
  • The Honorable Jo-Ellen Darcy, assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works, presents Mike Wilson, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District deputy for Programs and Project Management, with a certificate recognizing his 40 years of service during a stakeholder meeting with the Mississippi River Commission onboard the Motor Vessel Mississippi while docked in Clarksville, Tenn., Aug. 11, 2015.

    Wilson reaches 40-year milestone onboard Motor Vessel Mississippi

    CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (Aug. 19, 2015) – The Mississippi River Commission, several Corps of Engineers generals, and local stakeholders paused a meeting onboard the Motor Vessel Mississippi Aug. 11 for the presentation of a length of service award to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District deputy for Programs and Project Management.
  • The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Alaska District is seeking qualified candidates in a variety of technical areas despite Army force reduction in Alaska. The organization has about 20 positions either pending announcement or currently advertised on the USA Jobs website, the official source of federal government employment listings. The project-funded agency’s workload is anticipated to increase with future military and civil works construction. However, the hiring actions reflect the organization’s mantra of striving to become faster, more affordable and better.

    Despite Army reductions, Corps of Engineers hiring in Alaska

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Alaska District is seeking qualified candidates in a variety of technical areas despite Army force reduction in Alaska.
  • From left to right: Retired Major William A. Allen, Martha Coley and retired Lt. Col. Stephen R. Allen are pictured at McEntire Joint National Guard Base in Hopkins, South Carolina January 2014.

    After decades of giving, she won’t slow down

    SAVANNAH, Ga. – From the moment her teenage son mounted a foldout of an aircraft cockpit on his bedroom wall, she knew that he was poised to fly planes. Martha Coley, now mother to two retired Air Force pilots, recalled this, and similar aspirations-turned-accomplishments, arresting the discussion to misty-eyed silence.