Story by Robert DeDeaux | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District | 08.20.2025
PHOENIX – Traveling throughout the Southwest, Christopher Stanton, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District lead planner and Silver Jackets program manager, has built a professional reputation for dependability....
Story by Robert DeDeaux | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District | 06.02.2025
The Birdsprings Chapter of the Navajo Nation, in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Silver Jackets program, hosted its inaugural virtual and in-person flood response tabletop exercise May 30 in Birdsprings, Arizona....
Story by Robert DeDeaux and Dena O'Dell | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District | 09.05.2024
The responsibility of taking care of her disabled mother, tending to livestock and the fear of the constant flooding that may arrive with the next monsoon season weighs heavily on Brittanny Taylor, a Navajo Nation Birdsprings Chapter resident....
Story by Stephen Roughton | U.S. Air Force Academy | 08.08.2024
Almost 100 cadets majoring in Civil Engineering or Mechanical Engineering deploy to a training site each summer. During the three-week Field Engineering and Readiness Laboratory or FERL at Jacks Valley, rising two-degrees construct shelters, survey land, build roads, purify water, and operate heavy equipment simulating a deployment. The mandatory FERL three-credit hour course allows cadets......
Story by Airman 1st Class Donnell Schroeter | 377th Air Base Wing | 06.05.2024
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE – Alvin Malone grew up idolizing his father and uncles for their service during World War II. Their service to the United States has been a legacy and heritage the Malone family carried with pride for decades. Now decades later, they are receiving a gift that will drastically increase their quality of life. As a result of the partnership between the Department of......
Story by Staff Sgt. Colin Hollowell | HQ Air Force Recruiting Service | 01.03.2024
Four Department of the Air Force Indigenous Nations Equality Team members partnered with a local enlisted accessions recruiter assigned to the 367th Recruiting Squadron to increase awareness for U.S. Air Force, Air National Guard, and Air Force Reserve opportunities while touring five schools on the Navajo Nation Reservation, Feb. 26 - March 1, 2024....
Story by Sgt. Alexandra Munoz | 1st Marine Division | 11.27.2023
U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Nizhoni Milton is a second-generation Marine in the 1st Marine Division who is also a part of the Navajo Nation. She joined the Marine Corps because of the Navajo Code Talkers and continues to carry on not only the Marine legacy, but her cultural legacy as well....
Courtesy Story | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Albuquerque District | 07.07.2023
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-South Pacific Division and Navajo Nation signed an agreement intended to improve USACE’s support to Navajo Nation at Window Rock, Arizona, July 6....
