Courtesy Story | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Honolulu District | 02.27.2024
Lahaina, HI - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is pleased to announce the successful installation and turnover of the temporary King Kamehameha III Elementary School in Lahaina to the Hawai‘i State Department of Education Feb. 27. In collaboration with FEMA and the State of Hawai‘i, USACE embarked on a mission to design and oversee the installation of this critical educational facility......
Story by Charles Delano | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Honolulu District | 11.21.2023
Patrick Kerr, the Hydraulic and Hydrology Branch Chief at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District, is the Critical Public Facilities Action Officer in support of the Hawaii Wildfire recovery mission....
Story by Charles Delano | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Honolulu District | 11.15.2023
Jason Ritter, Emergency Management chief with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Huntington District, supported the Hawai‘i wildfires recovery mission as the Critical Public Facilities subject matter expert and Recovery Field Office operations chief....
Story by Jacqueline Tate | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters | 04.02.2018
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Recovery Field Office, held a change of command on Mar. 30, 2018. Maj. Manuel Orozco assumed command of the RFO from Lt. Col. Roberto Solorzano....
Story by Codi Kozacek | National Training Center and Fort Irwin | 01.08.2018
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Over the past four months, Jim DeGraff spent just two weeks at home in Alaska. The rest of the time, he was in disaster areas, working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to help the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico recover from hurricanes Irma and Maria....
Story by JoAnne Castagna | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District | 09.14.2011
Powerful winds reaching 250 mph blew in the windows of St. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo., sending shattered glass on top of critically ill patients and sweeping up furniture, supplies and medicine into a whirlwind within the violently shaking walls of the hospital. With little warning a multiple-vortex tornado plowed through the community on the evening of May 22....
