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  • November

    Mr. Yo-Sep Song demonstrates a field testing kit to student Kelly Wun. The field testing kit is used for screening of petroleum contaminated soil. Ms. Wun is a senior at Seoul American High School, and shadowed Far East District staff members on Nov. 5, 2015 to learn more about what they do. Mr. Song is a chemist in the Geotechnical and Environmental Engineering Branch in the Far East District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. (Photo courtesy of Dr. Son-Chu Chon, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)

    Student gets geotech guidance

    Kelly Wun, a high school senior, had a chance to learn directly from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Far East District employees at the district compound in Seoul on Nov. 5. Scott Bittner, a science teacher at Seoul American High School, selected Wun for this job-shadowing opportunity from eight student-candidates, in recognition of her leadership and academic interests.
  • The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles district sent a four-person team of engineering professionals to the National Training Center at Fort Irwin to assess damages to the installation after flash floods from a storm hit the post Oct. 5.

    Corps sends team to Fort Irwin to assess recent storm damage

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles district sent a four-person team of engineering professionals to the National Training Center at Fort Irwin to assess damages to the installation after flash floods from a storm hit the post Oct. 5.
  • Melody Hinkle, second from left, reviews a contracting documents with procurement analysts LaVette Buford, Denver Heath and Doug Gosselin during her career broadening assignment with the Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting-Dallas. Hinkle, a procurement analyst with the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, spent four-months working at the PARC – Dallas office which manages and administers contracts coming from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Northwest, Southwest, South Pacific and Pacific Ocean Divisions.

    Contracting specialist broadens career

    A Center contracting specialist was recently selected to fill a short-term career broadening assignment at a regional contracting office responsible for providing oversight of contractual actions.
  • The Veterans Committee for Civic Improvement of Huntington, an organization of 14 veterans organization in the Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia Tri-State area presented its annual Veterans Day Parade and Ceremony. Colonel Secrist was both the Parade Marshall and the featured speaker

    Veterans Day Parade

    The Veterans Committee for Civic Improvement of Huntington, an organization of 14 veterans organization in the Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia Tri-State area presented its annual Veterans Day Parade and Ceremony. Colonel Secrist was both the Parade Marshall and the featured speaker.
  • Dillon Lake Health and Safety Event

    Dillon Lake Participates in the Sheridan Middle School Health and Safety Even

    For the past four years Huntington District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Dillon Lake has participated in the Sheridan Middle School Health and Safety Event, in Thornville, Ohio.