Vicksburg, Miss……Pat Chambers, Supervisory Engineer with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District, recently returned from a 16-month deployment to Kabul, Afghanistan, in support of Overseas Contingency Operations.
During his first nine-month tour, Chambers served in several capacities. As the lead civil engineer with Operations Division, Chambers was responsible for reviewing construction submittals for constructability and feasibility. He also served as project manager for 15 projects valued at over $12,000,000 and served as lead project manager and facility engineer for all construction, repairs, communication infrastructure, force protection construction, and base camp master planning to relocate the Engineer District to an alternate forward operating base in concert with the drawdown of forces.