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  • December

    Staff Sgt. Daniel McKinney demonstrates the use of a utility truck's hydraulic system for Afghan electrical engineers and linemen during utility truck training held in early December, in Helmand province, Afghanistan. McKinney, assigned to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Prime Power Battalion in Kandahar, Afghanistan, was the lead instructor.

    Afghan electrical engineers, linemen receive training, new equipment

    KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- Afghan engineers and linemen in Helmand province just got a major helping hand thanks to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers program that taught Da Afghaninstan Breshna Sherkat (Afghanistan's electric utility company) employees how to safely operate the new electric utility trucks donated to them by the United States in early December.

  • Corps' officials meet with Illinois leaders to discuss low water operations

    ALTON- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mississippi Valley Division Commander Maj. Gen. John Peabody and St. Louis District Commander Col. Chris Hall met with state and local representatives yesterday in Alton, Ill., to discuss current and future actions the Corps will take to maintain a safe and reliable navigation channel during low water.
  • A side view of the new general instruction building at the Presidio of Monterey in Monterey, Calif., shown April 19, 2012. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District oversaw construction of the building, used by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center to teach military personnel foreign languages.

    In-house design helps transform California military post

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. - An abandoned airplane hangar with just four instructors, 60 students and only one language was how the school began in San Francisco. Around the same time the school was starting its life, a small, 170-year-old military post about 100 miles south was going through yet another renovation: serving as a reception area for the U.S. Army's III Corps.
  • Armored training maneuvers at Fort Benning, Ga. In an effort to consolidate resources, the U.S. Army recently moved their Armor School to Fort Benning.

    ERDC helps universities bring innovation to Fort Benning

    Dec. 21, 2012, FORT BENNING, Ga.--Researchers with ERDC Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) recently took the initiative to integrate local universities into the erosion control design process for the new Fort Benning maneuver box.
  • ICIWaRM Advisory Board attendees (left to right): Dr. Michael E. McClain, Head of Department and Professor of Ecohydrology UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education; Mr. Dhesigen Naidoo, CEO, South African Water Research Commission; Dr. Blanca Jimenez Cisneros, Secretary, UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (IHP) UNESCO Division of Water Sciences; Prof Dr. Ibrahim Gurer, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering Gazi University; Dr. Verne R. Schneider, Executive Secretary, U.S. National Committee for the International Hydrological Programme ; Robert A. Pietrowsky, IWR-ICIWaRM Director.

    ICIWaRM Holds Inaugural Advisory Board Meeting

    ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA - December 21, 2012. USACE IWR’s International Center for Integrated Water