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    Thousands of volunteers placed approximately 230,000 evergreen wreaths at Arlington National Cemetery as part of the Wreaths Across America program on Dec. 13, 2015. The holiday tradition began in 1992 with 5,000 wreaths, and now has expanded to more than 1,000 fundraising groups in all 50 states, who place wreaths at hundreds of cemeteries and other military memorial sites across the country.

    Baltimore District Corporate Communication Office receives national awards for excellence in journalism

    Members of the Baltimore District Corporate Communication Office received honors as part of the 2015
  • The Pathways Program has three sections: Internship Program for current students; the Recent Graduates Program for people who have recently graduated from qualifying educational institutions or programs (2 years from the date the graduate completed an academic course of study); and the reinvigorated Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program for people who obtained an advanced degree (e.g., graduate or professional degree) within the preceding two years. These programs, collectively the Pathways Programs, are streamlined developmental programs tailored to promote employment opportunities for students and recent graduates in the Federal workforce.

    The Workforce Awakens -- Millennials find their “Pathway” to success

    There is a tremor in the workforce. With a swell of retirement-eligible baby boomers leading the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a new band of heroes face a stiff challenge to quickly transform into future leaders of our nation’s premier public engineering agency. A collection of young professionals born from 1981-1996, millennials hold a cosmic cloud of information at their fingertips and are finding a new “Pathway” to success, designed to make them the most well-trained decision makers the Corps has ever seen.
  • A backhoe removes trees and debris from one of two sites that will house the dissolved oxygen system on the Savannah River.

    Workers prepare site for dissolved oxygen system

    SAVANNAH, Ga. – Just like a nurse who swabs an arm before injecting vaccine into a patient, workers began clearing debris and underbrush from land set to house dissolved oxygen injection equipment for the Savannah River.
  • Simon Sauceda, a construction control representative from the Pyongtaek Resident Office, pointing out corrections to contractor's employees.Sauceda is verifying coolant lines are pressurized properly on a military construction project on Camp Humphreys on Feb. 2, 2016. Sauceda's job includes inspecting the job sites for safety and quality assurance concerns, a responsibility he has wholeheartedly embraced as a reflection of his personal values of honesty and integrity.

    Spotlight: Simon Sauceda

    A glimpse into the life-long legacy of integrity embodied by Simon Sauceda, a quality assurance representative for the Pyeongtaek Resident Office of the Far East District.
  • Col. David Caldwell, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New York District (third person from the left), joins other elected, state, and federal officials for the Environmental Protection Agency announcement of the $1.4 billion Superfund Project for the Lower Passaic River in Newark, N.J., March 4, 2016. The Lower Passaic River Superfund project will remove 3.5 million cubic yards of toxic sediment, in an effort to revitalize the lower eight miles of the Passaic River. (Photo by Hector Mosley, public affairs specialist, New York District)

    New York District joins U.S. EPA at announcement of Superfund project for Lower Passaic River, NJ

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2 recently announced a $1.38 billion Superfund project for the cleanup of the Lower Passaic River. The event featured keynote speakers Sen. Bob Menendez, Sen. Cory Booker, Judith Enck, regional administrator, EPA, Col. David Caldwell, commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New York District, Bob Martin, commissioner, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, and other participants. Each talked about the importance of the cleanup of the lower Passaic River.