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  • May

    BAGHDAD — Douglas Harold Plachy, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Program Manager, receives the Joint Civilian Service Commendation Medal from Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen Jr. during a ceremony here, April 24, 2012. Plachy is deployed from the USACE Kansas City District.

    USACE deployed teammate awarded commendation medal in Iraq

    Douglas Harold Plachy, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers team member, was presented the Joint Civilian Service Commendation Medal during a ceremony in Baghdad.
  • FRANCE — The Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, France serves as the final resting place for more than nine thousand U.S. Soldiers who gave their life in World War II to protect freedom.

    USACE employees visit little-known D-Day engineering feat

    The remnants of 600,000 tons of concrete rising out of the sea are visible nearly 68 years after D-Day. Mulberry Harbor, the temporary harbor developed by the Allies to offload troops, vehicles and supplies on to the beaches during the Battle of Normandy is a lasting example of superb military engineering.
  • LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Dr. Swaminathan Krishman and his colleagues at the California Institute of Technology are trying to answer a critical question. What is going to happen to modern, tall buildings when an event like a 7.9 magnitude quake happens? Krishman spoke during a "brown bag" luncheon held for professional development and, on occasions like this, to inform employees so they are better prepared for the "big one," at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles district headquarters here, Apr. 24, 2012.

    Earthquakes should have a season

    Wouldn't it be less menacing if you knew when to expect an earthquake, if they had their own time of year?
  • PHOENIX, Az. — David Rodriguez (left), speaks with Louis "Dutch" Bonnet and Col. Mike Wehr, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers South Pacific Division commander (who has since been promoted to Brig. Gen. since the time this image was taken), during Wehr's visit in November 2011 to the Tres Rios Ecosystem Restoration Project in Phoenix. Rodriguez recently received a commission as an Ensign in the U.S. Navy Reserves.

    USACE L.A. District employee dons Navy blue and gold

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District now has a new Navy Reserve officer in its ranks of civilian employees. David Rodriguez, a field engineer with the District's Arizona-Nevada Area Office, recently received his commission in the Reserves.

  • Delivering on Sustainability

    Many people have heard me use the term “building to last” when talking about the need for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to use the talents and innovation within our organization to help preserve our planet and build our Army and our Nation strong.