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  • November

    Amanda Sticker, Huntsville Center engineer, and Ellen Haapoja, geophysicist, teach students explosives safety during Columbia Elementary School's "Community Heroes Day" in Madison, Alabama, on Friday, Nov. 18.

    Huntsville Center heroes teach students to “Recognize, Retreat, Report”

    Representatives from the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville taught munitions safety to students during Columbia Elementary School’s “Community Heroes Day” on Friday, November 18.
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, South Atlantic Division commander Brigadier Gen. Daniel Hibner, members of the Mobile District team and Tyndall Air Force base leadership tour the site of the new lodging facility at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, Nov. 14, 2022. Hibner, who was the Savannah District commander when Hurricane Michael destroyed Tyndall in 2018, was amazed at the progress of the reconstruction at the base. (U.S. Army photo by Chuck Walker)

    SAD Commander tours Mobile District projects

    Three critical projects the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District is currently working are the rebuild of Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, construction projects at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida and the deepening and widening of the Mobile Harbor, Alabama.
  • Leadership Development Program participants and leaders from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Transatlantic Middle East District walk the 3rd Battle of Winchester Battlefield in Winchester, VA as part of a “staff ride,” Staff rides are a military tradition where a senior leader, like the unit commander, takes subordinates on a battlefield tour to discuss what types of leadership lessons can be learned from a given battle. During the walk, LDP participants briefed district leadership on lessons they had learned about leadership traits while studying the battle.

    Future leaders participate in Army Tradition

    TAM's Leadership Development Program participants experience traditional military staff ride during a battlefield walk of the 3rd Battle of Winchester, Va.
  • NWW PRT members at the Generator Staging Base (GSB) in Ponce.

    Keeping the lights on: Walla Walla Temporary Power Team installs generators in the wake of Hurricane Fiona

    On September 19, the day after Hurricane Fiona made landfall near Punta Tocón, members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District Planning and Response Team (PRT) boarded a plane in Atlanta and flew to Puerto Rico. The team landed in San Juan at 8 p.m., on a mission to install generators and provide temporary emergency power to the island.
  • David Hibner is the new director of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Geospatial Research Laboratory. He also serves as the director of the Army Geospatial Center and the Geospatial Information Officer of the Army.

    ERDC welcomes new GRL Director David Hibner

    David Hibner was selected to the Senior Executive Service and began serving as the new director of the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Geospatial Research Laboratory (GRL) September 26, 2022. Along with his duties as GRL director, Hibner also serves as the director of the Army Geospatial Center (AGC) and the Geospatial Information Officer of the Army.