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  • March

    Personnel Spotlight Joey Behr: Engineer and Inventor

    Since the age of 14, Joey Behr has had an interest in hunting. Now, at 24, he holds a patent for a product that enhances a bow hunter's odds of hitting his target and has another patent pending.
  • Power Project Operator Olga Beddingfield at Old Hickory Dam explains how the dam and its hydropower is operated and controlled March to MBA students Will Singer (Middle) and D.J. Mott during a project tour March 9, 2012. (USACE photo by Amy Redmond)

    Prep students shadow Nashville District engineers

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (March 9, 2012) – Experiencing the “day in the life” of an engineer, two sophomores from Montgomery Bell Academy participated in a shadow program today with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Engineering Branch.
  • AFGHANISTAN — Col. Culen K. Robinson, commander, 533rd Engineer Detachment Forward Engineer Support Team-Main, center, and Sgt. 1st Class Derrick Smikle visit one of Smikle's projects Feb. 15, 2012 at Shindand Airbase in western Afghanistan. The Afghan contractor is second from left.

    533rd FEST-M praised for performance in Afghanistan

    Members of the 533rd Engineer Detachment, Forward Engineer Support Team-Main were highly praised March 1, 2012 at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan by Maj. Gen. Kendall P. Cox, commander of Transatlantic Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
  • AFGHANISTAN — Ayesha Saeed (left), a project engineer at the Herat Resident Office and Baltimore resident, checks on the status of a construction project on Camp Zafar Jan 31, 2012.

    USACE exceeds construction placement goals for 6 straight months

    The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Afghanistan Engineering District-South exceeded its contracting and construction goals for February, the sixth consecutive month of execution success.
  • Oil spill responders from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, recently trained at ERDC-CRREL on equipment for oil spill recovery and cleanup. The field practical portion included proficiency checks in spill site safety and techniques.

    CRREL hosts innovative "Advanced Ice Safety and Response" training

    ERDC Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) recently provided to Alaska Clean Seas (ACS), an oil spill removal organization (OSRO) based in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, a facility for training their oil spill responders.