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The military works include 10 Army installations and 11 Air Force installations within the SWD boundaries. And SWD's recreation areas are the most visited in the Corps, with more than 11,400 miles (18,300 km) of shoreline and 1,172 recreation sites. The Division Commander is directly responsible to the Chief of Engineers. The SWD Commander ...
From 1990 through 2012, the Galveston District of the United States Army Corps of Engineers performed a widening and deepening of the bayou to reduce flooding. [3] This allowed for new development in the southern portion of the city, and removed an estimated 35,000 homes and 2,000 commercial structures from a 100-year floodplain .
Fort Crockett is a government reservation on Galveston Island overlooking the Gulf of Mexico originally built as a defense installation to protect the city and harbor of Galveston and to secure the entrance to Galveston Bay, thus protecting the commercial and industrial ports of Galveston and Houston and the extensive oil refineries in the bay area.
List of military installations in Texas Installation name Location Notes Kelly Field / Joint Base San Antonio : San Antonio: formerly Kelly Air Force Base Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base
The Falls City Engineers: A History of the Louisville District, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, 1970-1983 (US Army Engineer District, 1984) online. Prucha, Francis Paul. Broadax and bayonet : the role of the United States Army in the development of the northwest, 1815-1860 (1953) online; Scott, Pamela.
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Corporal Robey J. Tyree (ASN:), United States Army, for gallantry in action as a member of Company B, 8th Engineer Combat Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division, in action against the enemy on 16 September 1950 ...
During World War II, it was re-designated a United States Army Air Corps base and named "Galveston Army Air Field", United States Army Corps of Engineers, using funds made available by Congress through the Civil Aeronautics Authority, constructed three 6,000-foot (1,800 m)-long, hard-surface runways at the airport to accommodate army aircraft ...
During the World War II, the Galveston Municipal Airport, a predecessor to Scholes International Airport, was redesignateded a U.S. Army Air Corps base and named "Galveston Army Air Field". The United States Army Corps of Engineers, using funds made available by Congress through the Civil Aeronautics Authority, constructed three 6,000-foot ...