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  • March

    After two decades of witnessing the outstanding support provided by the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, the National Guard Bureau has chosen the Center for its Electronic Security Systems needs.

    HNC provides Electronic Security support to National Guard

    After two decades of witnessing the outstanding support provided by the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, the National Guard Bureau has chosen the Center for its Electronic Security Systems needs.
  • Wilson Walters, a U.S. Army retiree who has served as a safety and occupational specialist and technical manager for recovered chemical warfare materials at Huntsville Center since 1992, will retire March 31.

    Half Century of Excellence

    Walters, a safety and occupational specialist and technical manager for recovered chemical warfare materials for the U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, is saying goodbye this month to the program he was instrumental in creating when he began his civilian career in 1992.
  • Fifth grade students at Zundy Elementary School Wichita Falls, Texas in Richard Partridge's (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) STAAR skills class play the Missouri Basin Balancer video game that they had beta tested in early December 2021 for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Northwestern Division. His students played the game and then as part of their writing skills assignment, they had to document the errors they encountered while playing the game, which were reported to programmers at the USACE, Engineer Research and Development Center to be incorporated into game fixes.

    Fifth graders help Army engineers

    In early December 2021, several 5th grade classes at Zundy Elementary in Wichita Falls, Texas helped beta test the Missouri Basin Balancer web-based video game for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Northwestern Division. Throughout 2021, the Northwestern Division and Omaha District worked with USACE's Engineer Research and Development Center to get the game updated.
  • Trevor Snyder, project manager with the Operations Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District, left, briefs a team of the Corps’ LA District park rangers, Azusa Police Department and Los Angeles County Department of Animal Control after daybreak Feb. 22 in Azusa, California. A total of 128 tons of floatable debris in the San Gabriel River was removed by the Corps’ LA District during a weeklong cleanup project. (Photo by John Reese, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District)

    Corps’ LA District removes 128 tons of floatable debris from San Gabriel Riverbed during weeklong cleanup project

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District removed 128 tons of floatable debris during a cleanup of the San Gabriel River, Feb. 22-28, 2022, near Azusa. The weeklong project filled 16 40-cubic-yard dumpsters with debris that can create runoff blockage during heavy rains and cause flooding of heavily populated areas downstream.
  • Brandon Meinert of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Kansas City District was selected for the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) University, a detail program in its seventh year that offers partnerships between USACE Division and District participants and relevant ERDC laboratory mentors for six-month research projects.

    Kansas City District’s Brandon Meinert selected for ERDC University

    Researchers from five U.S. Army Corps of Engineer Districts have been selected for the 2022 session of the Engineer Research and Development Center University (ERDC-U). Building Information Modeling (BIM) Manager Brandon Meinert with the Kansas City District was chosen as a participant for this detail program, which is now in its seventh year.