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    Corps of Engineers workers deliver donations to Kabul orphans

    Eight U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employees distributed two dozen boxes of donated jackets, hats, gloves and other winter clothes to a large orphanage on Jan. 14, a day when heavy snow fell and the temperature reached 32 degrees in the Afghan capital.
  • USACE turns over operations and maintenance responsibility to Afghan Air Force

    While this is the first O&M transition to the Afghan Air Force, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Afghanistan Engineer District-South transferred O&M responsibility for some of the facilities on the Afghan National Army's Camp Hero near Kandahar in July 2011.
  • Corps of Engineers leads coalition effort to save coho salmon

    In the winter of 2011, biologists funded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers counted a record number of wild juvenile coho salmon in the downstream portions of the Russian River system in western Sonoma County. Adult coho also appear to be reproducing in some of their historical tributaries for the first time since large-scale monitoring of the species began in 2005.
  • USACE trains Afghans to operate and maintain facilities

    Successfully transitioning operations and maintenance responsibilities to the Afghan National Army's Directorate of Public Works, is the underlying reason for a new training program designed to teach Afghans the fundamentals of building operations and maintenance.
  • Power teams rapidly deploy to help east coast communities

    Recently, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers emergency response personnel deployed to various states in the eastern U.S. to help with response and recovery efforts after Hurricane Irene left a path of destruction from North Carolina to Vermont. This was the first time USACE deployed multiple power teams and their resources to multiple states simultaneously.

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