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  • July

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    Providing solutions worldwide

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ vision is, “Engineering solutions for our Nation’s toughest challenges.” Not only does this vision relate to challenges here in the United States, but it applies to those encountered all over the world. Part of working toward that vision asks our employees to deploy and sometimes work for and with other agencies overseas. Recently, two members of the Memphis District volunteered to do just that.

  • January

    NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg tells reporters that the alliance will suspend training Iraqi forces until the situation in the country stabilizes.

    NATO temporarily suspends training mission in Iraq

    Although NATO is committed to the training mission in Iraq, the alliance has suspended training operations in the country, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in Brussels Jan. 7.

  • November

    The International Sampling Corps: A group of approximately 35 individuals representing 17 countries – which included 24 students from 16 countries – and the director of the NATO Science and Technology Organization’s Collaborative Support Office.

    Engineer trains NATO on unique sampling method for munitions in soils

    “Science-based characterization of military training ranges and management for the environmental

  • SHAPE community celebrates opening of US schools

    MONS, Belgium – Top military and civilian leaders from Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, the Department of Defense Education Activity and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officially dedicated the U.S. sections Monday during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at SHAPE International School. The new Department of Defense Dependents Schools-Europe elementary and middle schools – to be followed by an American high school this coming winter – are the first to open as part of a multinational-funded venture to build a state-of-the-art campus on this NATO base by the fall of 2019.

  • January

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District continues work in December on NATO's Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe International School campus in Mons, Belgium. The endeavor, funded collectively by Department of Defense Dependents Schools-Europe and NATO, will bring new elementary, middle and high schools to DoDDS students and new classrooms for the international school in an environmentally sustainable campus setting. Officials have targeted 2018 for completion of the entire campus.

    Taking SHAPE: USACE projects key to organization's future

    MONS, Belgium -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is managing a major push into upgrading decades-old buildings on the NATO base here as part of an endeavor that will have a lasting impact on the culture and mission of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, military and education leaders say.

  • December

    NATO special operations forces, comprised of 26 member nations and three non-NATO partners, celebrate the completion of a new state-of-the-art, 23,000-square-foot headquarters building during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Dec. 12 at SHAPE in Mons, Belgium. NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Adm. James Stavridis, center left, and Lt. Gen. Frank Kisner, NATO Special Operations Headquarters commander, addressed distinguished guests and expressed their desire for the building to serve as an ideas hub for 21st-century special operations.

    USACE delivers NATO Special Operations Headquarters in Belgium

    MONS, Belgium -- U.S. and international military officials have cut the ribbon on a state-of-the-art facility constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District that will enable the NATO special operations forces community to plan, coordinate and conduct vital missions around the globe.
  • Jeff Ice, a safety and occupational health specialist who deployed to Kandahar from the USACE New York District shows an Afghan construction worker how to detect a fake fire extinguisher. Some counterfeit ones, instead of releasing the normal fire-stopping agent they are supposed to release, spit out flour or other non-effective substances.

    Building Strong means building safe

    KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- Throughout the Afghanistan Engineer District-South area of operations, where dozens of Afghan National Security Forces installations are under construction, safety and occupational health specialists visit job sites daily to make sure laborers are protected from unnecessary risks.