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  • April

    Far East District employees pose for a picture outside the new district headquarters building April 12 at Camp Humphreys. The group were part of an orientation tour designed to give current employees a better understanding of what to expect when the district moves its headquarters to Camp Humphreys next year.

    Tour gives employees a glimpse of the future

    Far East District employees took the first of threeorientation tours of Camp Humphreys on April 12. The series of tours offers alook at the new district headquarters building, as well as Camp Humphreys andthe surrounding Pyeongtaek area. “We want to provide the best possible transition for allemployees who will be moving here next year,” said
  • A fuel tank installation at Osan Air Base in the Republic of Korea posed challenges which yielded several important lessons learned, such as how to prevent tank liner separation as shown here.

    Tank install teaches important lessons

    A recently completed project at Osan Air Base taught several important lessons about fuel tank installation and emphasize the value attention to detail.

  • March

    Corps’ Iwakuni Japan Resident Office prepping for busy March

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Japan District’s Iwakuni Resident Office is hustling to prepare 10 projects to be turned over to the U.S. government this month. A challenge that will take intricate planning for an office that normally hands over about two jobs a month.
  • Established in 2009 under the Army Contracting Command, the military contingency contracting team provides assistance to the Alaska District’s Asia Office. The district constructs schools, medical clinics and cyclone shelters on behalf of U.S. Pacific Command, which is responsible for providing humanitarian aid to 36 countries across Southeast Asia.

    Alaska District Spotlight: military contingency contracting team

    Four Soldiers assigned to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Alaska District are helping improve people’s lives by administering contracts for design and construction projects in distant lands.

  • February

    Rear. Adm. Bill Byrne, commander U.S. Naval Forces Korea, Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, commander, U.S. Forces Korea, Vice Adm. Ki-sik Lee, commander Republic of Korea Fleet, Maj. Gen. James Walton, director of transformation and re-stationing for U.S. Forces Korea, Hon. Mark Lippert, U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Korea, Jung Gyung-jin, mayor of Busan for administrative affairs, and Lee Jong-cheol, Nam-gu district mayor, cut the ribbon of CNFK's new head quarters building during a ribbon-cutting ceremony. This ceremony marks the opening of CNFK’s new headquarters building in Busan since their relocation from Seoul as part of the greater Yongsan Relocation Plan.

    New Era of US, ROK Navy Alliance Begins in Busan

    Commander,U.S. Naval Forces Korea (CNFK) conducted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Feb. 19,officially opening its  headquarters inBusan and ushering in a new era of U.S. and Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN)  alliance.  Theceremony, attended by dignitaries and senior U.S. and ROK military leaders,marked the completion of CNFK’s relocation to Busan making it
  • “We are at the forefront of incredible change, represented in a few minutes when we’ll offload one of the heaviest pieces of equipment in the U.S. Army inventory. Before today, we were reliant on the airspace and the road networks to be able to move in an

    Ribbon-cutting opens railhead at Camp Humphreys

    The railhead at Camp Humphreys was officially opened in a ribbon-cutting ceremony, and a tracked engineer recovery vehicle was the first vehicle to roll off the train and onto the railhead on Feb. 17, 2016.

  • January

    The Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni Facilities Department command group tours the new recycling center during the final inspection on Jan. 15. This is the final step before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Japan District turns the keys over to the U.S. government.

    New recycling center ready for occupants

    The new recycling center aboard Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan is one step closer to opening now that the keys are in the hands of installation managers.
  • During the summers of 2010 and 2011, the Kenaitze Indian Tribe work crew demolished Wildwood Air Force Station's Buildings 100 and 101. The project was made possible by the Native American Lands Environmental Mitigation Program and conducted through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Alaska District.

    Unique federal program cleans tribal lands, creates jobs in Alaska

    For nearly 40 years, Wildwood Air Force Station’s buildings 100 and 101 stood as abandoned relics of the Department of Defense. Now, the demolition of the facilities and other restorative projects on the same land are providing a local federally recognized native tribe with new opportunities.

  • December

    From left to right, Randy Bowker, chief of Programs and Project Management Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Alaska District; Md. Abu Shahriar, Local Government Engineering Department of Bangladesh district engineer for the Jessore District; and Col. Michael Brooks, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Alaska District, pose for a picture in early October after examining one of eight recently constructed roads in Jessore, Bangladesh. The Alaska District, in collaboration with the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Local Government Engineering Department of Bangladesh, completed the roads in the first government-to-government agreement in the country. The roads are instrumental in helping local farmers get their crops to the market, children get to school easier and facilitating families’ access to medical clinics, thus increasing the quality of life for the people of the region.

    1st government-to-government partnership helps build critical infrastructure in Bangladesh

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Alaska District is helping to ‘pave the way’ in Bangladesh by assisting with the construction of roads, market places and irrigation projects.

  • October

    Kim Adkins, Readiness and Contingency Operations, Operations Chief for the Northwestern Division was recently recognized as 2014 Emergency Manager of the Year by the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters. Her recognition as Emergency Manager of the Year spotlights her role as the Civil Emergency Program Manager for POD during day-to-day operations and in support of disaster response operations.

    2014 Emergency Manager of the Year

    Kim Adkins, Readiness and Contingency Operations, operations chief for the Northwestern Division was recently recognized as 2014 Emergency Manager of the Year by the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters. Adkins recently returned to the Northwestern Division after spending the last four years working as the POD Civil Emergency Program Manager for the Readiness and Contingency Operations Division. Since returning to NWD, she has deployed to Washington State in support of the wildfires that struck the eastern part of the state in August.

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