The Army's 86th Engineer Dive Detachment, recently conducted a series of training exercises at the USACE New York District, Caven Point Marine Terminal, in Jersey City, N.J. Not only does the training exercises benefit soldiers, but it also allows New York District to get analytic data for potential maintenance work.
Allan Little, a sixty-two-year-old Far Rockaway resident, who is deaf, is sitting next to a beach dune, digging into the sand with his bare hands, under the warm sun. He is planting vegetation to help make Rockaway Beach more resilient to coastal storm erosion and flooding.
