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  • October

    DEVILS LAKE, N.D. -- Mathew Andersen, left, engineering and construction, and Bonnie Greenleaf, project management,discuss the Devils Lake, N.D., project July 31.

    Team nears finish line on Devils Lake, N.D., emergency work

    The St. Paul District will substantially complete its emergency flood risk management project in
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel discuss beach renourishment activities at the site of active sand placement work in the Rockaways August 15, 2013. Post-Sandy sand placement activities are underway at Rockaway Beach in Queens, NY as part of a project placing roughly 3.5 million cubic yards onto the beach to help reduce risks from future storms

    Army Corps continuing to make good progress on recovery efforts one year after Hurricane Sandy

    Waves of colorful sea creatures and mermaids flooded the Coney Island Boardwalk in Brooklyn, N.Y., this summer for the annual Mermaid Parade. Just months earlier, in the very same spot, Hurricane Sandy with her massive waves stormed ashore but not in such a festive mood.

  • Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh retires, has two messages for USACE

    Maj. Gen. Micheal Walsh, Deputy Commanding General for Civil and Emergency Operations, will retire Nov. 30, 2013, after a 36-year career in the U.S. Army.
  • “I have two messages for USACE. First, I think the better part of the Corps of Engineers’ history has yet to be written and, second, remember the true meaning of our motto ‘Essayons’.” Maj. Gen. Micheal Walsh, deputy commanding general for Civil and Emergency Operations, will retire Nov. 30, 2013, after a 36-year career in the U.S. Army.

    Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh retires, has two messages for USACE

    One of the nicest guys in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will retire Nov. 30, 2013. Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh gives a self-deprecating chuckle. “Well, I don’t know about being the nicest guy in USACE. I just believe that everybody brings something special to the office. Many times being a leader means finding that specialness in everybody, and bringing their talents forward. That’s what I try to do.”
  • Joe Woods has published his fifth novel, Secrets of the Spiral Tower. Woods retired from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Vicksburg District in 2003 after a 40-year career in federal service. He started writing in 1992 while recuperating from a severe heart attack.(Photo courtesy of Joe Woods)

    USACE retiree publishes fifth novel

    Many federal employees dream of retiring to a house by a lake and writing the Great American Novel. Joe Woods actually did it. His fifth novel, Secrets of the Spiral Tower, was published Oct. 15. Joe Woods, a Mississippi native, worked for the U.S. Forest Service in the Tahoe National Forest for two years. He returned to Mississippi and worked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Vicksburg District for 38 years, retiring in 2003.