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    Gordon Simmons (right), chief of engineering, USACE Savannah District, currently deployed to Afghanistan, receives the Bronze Order of the de Fleury Medal from Col. Pete Helmlinger, commander, USACE Transatlantic- Afghanistan District, Monday at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.

    USACE Savannah District employee receives top honor

    BAGRAM AIRFIELD, AFGHANISTAN – Gordon Simmons, currently deployed to Afghanistan with USACE-Transatlantic Afghanistan District (TAA), has been awarded one of the highest honors bestowed within the Corps of Engineers. Simmons, chief of engineering, was presented with the Bronze Order of the de Fleury Medal Monday.
  • Angel Rivera, a Corps realty assistant, was one of two specialists from the South Atlantic Division’s Contingency Real Estate Support Team, or CREST, sent to hammer out leases and land-use agreements for Operation United Assistance, a humanitarian assistance mission aimed to combat the Ebola epidemic killing thousands of Liberians and paralyzing response efforts of the nation.

    A new lease on life: Realty assistant aids Ebola response efforts in Liberia

    SAVANNAH, Ga. – No stranger to warfare in the jungles of Vietnam and the mountainous terrain of Afghanistan, Angel Rivera set out on a familiar task in an unfamiliar territory that bred an enemy just as malignant as those he encountered as a career Soldier.
  • USACE Philadelphia District Dam & Levee Safety Manager Bruce Rogers conducts a tour with students from the Wallenpaupack High School Emergency Responders Club during a dam safety awareness event in May of 2015.

    Army Corps Hosts Students at Pennsylvania Dam

    Philadelphia District Dam and Levee Safety Manager conducts tour with students at Pa. Dam during National Dam Safety Awareness event.
  • The hydraulic sandbag filler was loaned to Tulsa District Communities in Grove, Oklahoma, Durant, Texas and Wagoner, Oklahoma. Wagoner was able to build 500 sandbags in 50 minutes with the machine, and will serve as the distribution center for sandbags.

    Corps sandbag filler saves labor, helps communities in need

    TULSA – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been using and providing communities with sandbags for
  • Greg Grisson, Pennyrile Electric Cooperative Corp. President/CEO, Tony Dotson, University of Kentucky Veterans Resource Center coordinator, Kenya Stump, assistant director for renewable energy for the Kentucky Department for Energy Development and Independence, Fort Campbell Garrison Commander Col. David "Buck" Dellinger and Director of Public Works Jim Duttweiler break ground May 27 at the site of a new solar array on post that will eventually provide 5 megawatts of renewable energy.

    Construction begins on largest solar array in Kentucky

    A May 27 groundbreaking ceremony at the site of a capped landfill on Fort Campbell marked the beginning of construction of the largest solar array in Kentucky. Huntsville Center's Utility Energy Services Contracting (UESC) and Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) programs are providing project management oversight in coordination with Fort Campbell for this solar project.