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  • April

    WASHINGTON — Maj. Gen. Merdith Temple, acting chief of engineers of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, presents a Corps Castle to Leland Johnson, author of "Situation Desperate: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Disaster Relief Operations, Origins to 1950". Johnson is a freelance writer and researcher from Westmoreland, Tenn. The Office of History officially published the book in a ceremony at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters, Mar. 23, 2012.

    Situation Desperate: U.S. Army Engineer Disaster Relief Operations, Origins to 1950

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Office of History officially released Situation Desperate: U.S. Army Engineer Disaster Relief Operations, Origins to 1950 during a ceremony in the Executive Foyer in Headquarters.
  • QUANTICO, Va. — Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Buxbaum, command sergeant major of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, maneuvers his Harley-Davidson Ultra Classic through an S-curve during the Basic Riders Course II March 16 at Marine Corps Base Quantico.

    Motorcycle Safety

    Two men sat down to talk, and they couldn't have been more different. One a senior NCO, the other a fedral employee. One a talker, the other more terse. One with two good legs, the other on crutches with a prosthetic.
  • This is a view of wingdams on the Mississippi River at Nininger, Minn., in 1891. In his 1883 book “Life on the Mississippi,” Samuel Clemens wrote, “The military engineers of the Commission have taken upon their shoulders the job of making the Mississippi over again… They are building wing-dams here and there to deflect the current; and dikes to confine it to narrower bounds; and other dikes to make it stay there.”

    What Mark Twain said about the Corps of Engineers

    For more than a century, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has had the mission to keep the Mississippi River open for navigation.

  • USACE Galveston District’s beneficial use site provides shelter for weary fliers

    Galveston, Texas (April 12, 2012) — Every April, the sky above the Gulf Coast becomes alive as millions of birds wintering in Latin America take a temporary respite before resuming their long journeys home. Depending on the weather, the 18-hour flight can be arduous and many of the birds need time to recuperate before continuing to their breeding grounds further north, which makes the Corps Woods on Galveston Island, situated along a major migratory route, an ideal rest stop after crossing the Gulf of Mexico.

  • District’s Traditional Foreign Military Sales Role Returning

    These programs are examples of the Middle East District's support to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers international mission through the foreign military sales program. FMS had traditionally been the larger portion of the district's workload before the tragic events of 9/11 changed the world. The next decade brought a military construction focus to the district's work in the Middle East and Central Asia regions.