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  • May

    ERDC Programs Office Chief Donald Morgan and Theresa Salls during her retirement ceremony.

    Salls retires after 34 years of service

    Theresa Salls retired from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Cold Regions
  • Delfina Fallin, a field office assistant with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers The Los Angeles District's Fort Irwin Resident Engineer Office accompanied by her family assist "Bobber" as the participated in the City of Torrance’s 58th Annual Armed Forces Day parade here May 20. The parade is an official Department of Defense event and is the city's way of expressing respect and reverence for the personnel who served in the armed forces, according to the city's website. The city honored the men and women of our nation's military with a three-day celebration that began on Friday, May 19, and continued through Sunday, May 21. The parade highlighted this year's honored branch, the United States Air Force.

    District participates in Armed Forces Day parade in Torrance

    The Los Angeles District participated in the City of Torrance’s 58th Annual Armed Forces Day parade here May 20.
  • Memorial Day 2017

    Some fell so we may stand

    From the revolution for independence to the internal conflicts of the Civil War, from the war to end

  • Army Corps vessel with a big job steams on during parade of ships

    NEW YORK-The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) drift collection vessel the DCV GELBERMAN helped kick off what was an epic scene along the Hudson River earlier this week. As scores of people stood on Engeldrum Bluff at Fort Hamilton the DCV GELBERMAN carried the American flag during with pride, a USACE New York District tradition. USACE crews on board the DCV GELBERMAN work day in and day out to keep the Hudson River and other essential federal navigation channels open and vacant of dangers. “The crew takes pride in keeping the navigation channel free and clear from hazards.” Said Colonel David A. Caldwell, Commander, USACE, New York District.
  • Karl F. Schneider (Left), senior career official performing the duties of the Under Secretary of the Army, host of the 2016 Lean Six Sigma excellence awards program ceremony May 18, 2017 at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., poses with Diane Parks (Second from left), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District chief of Operations, Tim Dunn (Third from left), Nashville District deputy chief of Operations, and Maj. Gen. Richard L. Stevens, (Fourth from left) U.S. Army Corps of Engineers deputy commanding general, and Lt. Gen. Edward C. Cardon, director of the Office of Business Transformation. Parks and Dunn accepted the Army’s Lean Six Sigma Award Program Process Improvement Project Team Excellence Award. (U.S. Army photo by Leroy Council)

    Process improvement earns Nashville District team LEAP award

    WASHINGTON (May 25, 2017) – A process improvement effort to streamline how the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District purchases its supplies paid off during a ceremony May 18, 2017 at the Pentagon when the Army’s Lean Six Sigma Award Program gave its Process Improvement Project Team Excellence Award to the project delivery team.