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  • March

    Brig. Gen. Robert Carlson, Transatlantic Division commander, along with senior staff members, updated Headquarters staff, including Maj. Gen. Richard Stevens, deputy chief of engineers and the deputy commanding general for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

    Transatlantic Division hosts senior USACE leadership for CSR

    Senior leaders with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Transatlantic Division, hosted leaders from the USACE Headquarters for a biannual command strategic review March 24 in Winchester, Va.
  • ROSWELL, N.M. – A view of the completed project from the top of Diamond A Dam, March 5, 2015. The new erosion-control rip rap is seen in the middle of the photo.

    A Good Relationship to Keep

    Recently the District and the Bureau of Reclamation teamed up to fix some flood damage at the District's Two Rivers project in Southeastern New Mexico. This isn't the first time the two agenices have cooperated.
  • Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Explosive Destruction System operators place a Department of Transportation bottle containing mustard agent in the Munitions Holder for destruction March 18. After safe detonation, the bottle, which will be a metal fragment, is removed from the vessel.

    First mustard agent destruction marks another milestone for Center's Chemical Demilitarization Program

    The March 18 destruction of the first item in the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant Explosive Destruction System (PCAPP EDS) marked another milestone for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville Chemical Demilitarization program.
  • WINCHESTER, Va. - Students from local high schools make plans to construct a water tower with toothpicks and gumdrops during the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Middle East District’s Day with an Engineer March 19 held at Lord Fairfax Community College’s Middletown campus.

    Students experience a Day with an Engineer

    Nearly 100 students from eight area high schools took a day away from their usual studies to learn about engineering career fields March 21 at Lord Fairfax Community College’s Middletown Campus.

  • Stroke victim’s recovery facilitated by Savannah’s FRN coordinator

    SAVANNAH, Ga. – A rising left arm gently roused Valencia Wynn out of her sleep at nearly 30,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean. Traveling on a transcontinental flight destined for Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Wynn peered through heavy eyelids to witness her arm elevate. Her fingers fluttered delicately as if playing on a floating piano, she said.