Story by Lt. Col. Darrin Haas | Tennessee National Guard Joint Public Affairs Office | 08.28.2024
At the request of the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency, the Tennessee National Guard provided four UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters, from Knoxville’s 1-230th Assault Helicopter Battalion, to support wildfire response in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, beginning August 27....
Story by Sgt. 1st Class William Jones | Tennessee National Guard Joint Public Affairs Office | 06.23.2020
Taking a look at what happens behind the scenes, and how things get done within a large-scale, inter-agency operation like the response to COVID-19....
Story by Mark Rankin | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 06.05.2020
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (June 5, 2020) – Gov. Bill Lee and Nashville Mayor John Cooper joined the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at an Alternate Care COVID-19 construction site turnover ceremony Nashville....
Story by Leon Roberts | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 04.23.2020
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (April 23, 2020) – The Corps of Engineers’ team supporting clean-up efforts in Middle Tennessee in the wake of deadly tornadoes that devastated the region in early March is wrapping up its FEMA technical support mission where contractors have removed an estimated 450,000 cubic yards of debris, enough to fill 137 Olympic-size swimming pools....
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Sara Eshleman | U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. Sixth Fleet | 07.27.2019
The Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Carson City (T-EPF 7) departed Tema, Ghana, July 26, 2019, after completing a scheduled port visit in support of its 2019 Africa Partnership Station (APS) deployment to the Gulf of Guinea....
Story by Leon Roberts | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 02.27.2018
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 27, 2018) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Crisis Management Team held a water management tabletop exercise today to walk through a simulated high-water event within the Cumberland River Basin in Middle Tennessee....
Story by Leon Roberts | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 02.01.2018
OLD HICKORY, Tenn. (Feb. 1, 2018) – What would happen if a towboat and barge were commandeered and its hijackers threatened public safety while inside a Corps of Engineers navigation lock? First responders wrestled with this potential scenario during a tabletop exercise at Old Hickory Dam today....
Story by Leon Roberts | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 12.19.2017
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Dec. 19, 2017) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Memphis and Nashville districts held a partnering meeting today to build a stronger relationship leading to better service for the state of Tennessee....
