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    Nicholas Emanuel supervisory contracting officer Transatlantic Afghanistan District

    Changing perspectives & nations - Afghanistan Mission

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s Transatlantic Afghanistan District provides engineering and
  • Civil Engineer Qing Xu illustrates a point by drawing a city layout and roads that come into it with students at the James Wood High School Career Fair, Nov. 13.

    Back to the Community: District Represents Engineering at Local High School Career Fair

    According to the USACE STEM site, “The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recognizes the critical role that STEM education plays in enabling the U.S. to remain economic and technological leaders of the global marketplace and enabling the Departments of Defense and Army to keep our Nation secure. We are committed to teaming with others to strengthen STEM-related programs that inspire current and future generations of young people to pursue careers in STEM fields.”
  • Maj. DaNishia Barton, Air Force Medical Support Agency Sustainment Branch deputy chief, and other AFMSA team members meet with representatives from Huntsville Center’s Maintenance Engineering Enhancement and Medical Repair and Renewal programs Nov. 14 to plan for the future.

    Huntsville Center programs support Air Force medical facilities

    A team from the Air Force Medical Support Agency visited U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville Nov. 13-14 to meet with representatives from the Center’s Installation and Support and Programs Management Directorate.
  • Sharing his recollections of that fateful day almost 50 years ago, Jimmy Baggett, assistant chief, Engineering and Construction Division, was a Fort Worth District team member working in the Specifications Section that day. Baggett, considered the elder statesman and the unofficial historian of the District, makes himself available to answer questions and share his 57 years of experiences with the Corps. But still, fifty years removed, and many interviews later about the Kennedy Assassination, there is still a hint of sadness in his voice, a touch of sorrow in his eyes recounting that day.

    JFK assassination remembered by 57-year Fort Worth District team member Jimmy Baggett

    FORT WORTH, Texas - There have been moments throughout history that generations can point to and say “I remember exactly what I was doing at that moment.” Our generation has the tragic events of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. The “Greatest Generation” the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 6, 1941. And for many in between those events there is the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Nov. 22, 1963.
  • ARLINGTON, Va. – The John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame sits dormant just prior to Secretary of the Army John McHugh transferring the JFK Eternal Flame back to its permanent location on Oct. 29, 2013, after repair work to the site was completed. The flame underwent a full replacement of gas and airlines, received new digital controls and sensors, as well as a new burner assembly. (U.S. Army photo/Patrick Bloodgood)

    Army Corps of Engineers: Keepers of the Flame

    ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY, Va. - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can lay claim to a vast array of famous projects since the Continental Congress authorized a “Chief Engineer for the Army” on June 16, 1775: Bunker Hill fortifications, the Panama Canal, the Manhattan Project, not to mention an abundance of locks, dams, and levees that help form the infrastructure of our nation.