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  • September

    ENFIRE Technology Used in Real-World Environment to Conduct Far East District’s Latest Training.

    ENFIRE Technology Used in Real-World Environment to Conduct Far East District’s Latest Training

    Last week, Chris Caywood, Chief of the FED’s Design Branch and a group of seven Engineering Division engineers met with customers from Story Range to complete a site assessment on three of the complex’s ranges.

  • July

    U.S. Army Senior Non-Commissioned Officers and Commissioned Officers from USACE Nashville District and the 326th Engineer Battalion from Fort Campbell Ky. Participate in leadership training at Lock C on the Cumberland River in Indian Mound Tenn. (USACE Photo by Daniel Barrios)

    USACE Nashville District Hosts Leadership Training at Lock C in Indian Mound Tenn.

    INDIAN MOUND, Tenn. (July 13, 2020) -- Something huge made a commotion in the water, sending ripples in every direction, and making the hair on your skin stand on end.

  • November

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Far East District, Emergency Essential Civilian (EEC) personnel and Mission Essential Civilian (MEC) personnel, practice first-aid techniques during the district's EEC training held at the Vehicle Maintenance Facility, Camp Humphreys, South Korea.

    FED operations focuses on district readiness

    CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea—The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Far East District (FED)

  • October

    First responders from local fire departments, alongside U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District team members, practice an emergency basket lift and chain fall in preparation for assisting injured personnel during a training exercise at East Sidney Lake Dam in Delaware County, New York, Oct. 13, 2018. More than 25 members of the Wells Bridge, Otego and Unadilla fire departments practiced safety procedures and rescue operations in confined spaces during the training simulation. (U.S. Army photo by Brianna K. Dandridge)

    Baltimore District, local first responders simulate rescue operations at East Sidney Lake Dam

    First responders and fire departments are always preparing to respond to worst-case scenarios. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, alongside area emergency responders did just that Oct. 13 during a training exercise simulating rescue operations in the event of a medical emergency at East Sidney Lake Dam.

  • December

    Alexandria, Va. -- One of eight boxes sits in storage at the Veterans Curation Program office in Alexandria, Virginia, Dec. 3, 2014. The curation program provides recently separated military veterans with employment and archaeological training, including going through artifacts found at Fort Norfolk, while also providing the veterans with resume writing assistance and interview skills over a five month period. (U.S. Army photo/Patrick Bloodgood)

    Veterans transition program documents Fort Norfolk relics

    The Army Corps of Engineers Veteran’s Curation Program, provide recently separated military veterans with employment and job training through rehabilitation and preservation of archeological collections, including items found at Fort Norfolk, while also providing the vets with interview skills training and resume writing assistance.
  • Members of the 542nd FEST-A use a laser finder to obtain measurements of a bridge located during a bridge reconnaissance exercise on Hunter Army Airfield Sept. 18. The team gathered Sept. 15-25 to conduct two weeks of FEST-A training exercises.

    Clock winds down as elite engineering team readies for deployment

    SAVANNAH, Ga. – As 2014 departs, so will 12 members of the 542nd Forward Engineering Support Team – Advanced (FEST-A), who deploy to Kuwait in January for more than six months to provide specialized technical engineering support for the Central Command area of responsibility.

  • USACE civilians introduced to Army life

    FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- The United States Army Corps of Engineers conducted their annual Leadership Development Program training recently, using various ranges and training areas throughout Fort Leonard Wood. This program was developed by USACE to give their civilian employees an introduction to Army culture as well as leadership training, but it actually goes further than that, it also gives them a better understanding of the importance of their jobs and just where they fit into the big picture.

  • July

    Teachers from among 20 schools in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles gathered the week of June 24 to learn techniques for incorporating hands-on activities related to science, technology, engineering and math. In this photo they are learning about how water flows within a watershed.

    Corps collaborates on teacher training to help promote STEM

    LOS ANGELES — Teachers from among 20 schools in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles gathered recently to learn techniques for incorporating hands-on activities related to science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, in their classrooms.

  • September

    Marcelo Maier (left), a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District civil engineer for special projects conducts a site inspection of a telemedicine facility in Kukes, Albania. After one year on the job and an informal mentorship Maier is helping to build the Humanitarian Assistance program.

    USACE People: Building strong through mentoring

    Brian Trzaska, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District civil engineer for special projects, is teaching, training, coaching, counseling and transferring knowledge to Marcelo Maier, a fellow district civil engineer and Trzaska's mentee.

  • August

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Joseph D. Tober, a human resources specialist with the regional CPAC in Chicago, and Phyllis Williams, a human resources specialist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Detroit District, work on ideas for customer service improvement during a Customer Service Improvement Project and Supervisors Conference, Aug. 7, 2012. The conference was comprised of human resources personnel throughout the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio Rivers Division.

    Human resources team works to improve customer service

    When it comes to managing human resources in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio River Division, providing world-class customer service and building strong relationships with customers are the top priorities for successful human resources offices.
  • KITTANNING, Pa. — Crooked Creek Lake Student Ranger Travis November shows kids at the Kittanning YMCA the proper way to fit and wear a life jacket, July 30, 2012.

    Corps Rangers: Reach, Throw, Row, Don't Go!

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Crooked Creek Lake Park Rangers presented a water safety program for a day camp at the Richard G. Snyder YMCA in Kittanning, Pa.

  • July

    GERMANY — Alex Cansler, a rising U.S. Military Academy at West Point junior majoring in Civil Engineering, took part in the school's Academic Individual Advanced Development program working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District this summer.

    USACE introduces cadets to European engineering

    United States Military Academy at West Point Cadets traveled to Europe this summer wearing construction boots rather than backpacks, ready to apply classroom lessons to real work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District.
  • AFGHANISTAN — U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employees buckle into the MaxPro MRAP simulator on Kandahar Airfield July 15 as part of their MRAP egress orientation training. To comply with a U.S. Forces-Afghanistan order (FRAGO 12-054), which requires all personnel who ride in MRAPs to receive safety and egress orientation training, the South District identified those employees who regularly travel in MRAPs as the first group of attendees.

    Keeping people safe means vehicle rollover training

    About 30 employees of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Afghanistan Engineer District-South took part in MRAP (mine-resistant, ambush-protected) vehicle safety and egress orientation training on Kandahar Airfield July 15, 2012.

  • June

    TACOMA, Wash. — Joe Tribbey, Quality Assurance Representative (left), Marsha Phillips, Logistics Specialist (middle), and Sgt. First Class Douglas Eshenbaugh, 249th Engineer Battalion "Yard Dog," inventoryi and review generator work order requests with generator support contractor during day one of the Evergreen Earthquake Exercise generator staging area located on Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

    USACE Honolulu District Supports Quake Catastrophe Response Exercise

    Several U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Honolulu District employees spent time training for emergency management deployments by participating in the Combined Response Mission Exercise Evergreen Quake 2012.
  • KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — Sgt. Gabriel Akonom, 249th Prime Power Battalion, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Afghanistan Engineer District-South, shows an Afghan technician from Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat, Afghanistan's electric utility company, how to maneuver the work platform on one of the two "bucket trucks" donated to the utility by the United States.

    Afghan power company linemen receive training, new equipment during debut training session

    Twelve Afghan electric company technicians will be better able to maintain power lines throughout southern Afghanistan after learning to safely operate electric utility trucks donated by the United States during a training course on Kandahar Airfield.