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The Chief of Engineers is a principal United States Army staff officer at The Pentagon. The Chief advises the Army on engineering matters, and serves as the Army's topographer and proponent for real estate and other related engineering programs. The Chief of Engineers is the senior service engineer for the Department of Defense, responsible for ...
Prior to his selection as Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, he served as the Commanding General of the Engineer School and Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. On April 16, 2018, the Best Sapper Competition was named in honor of LTG Flowers for his contributions to the Sapper Leader Course and his efforts in ...
Red and white are the colors used for the Corps of Engineers. The bar symbolizes a treadway bridge, the construction of which was a major combat mission of the organization. The cat-a-mountain, a European wildcat, indicates the stealth and swiftness required in combat engineer operations, 16 claws represents the Battalions steadfast commitment ...
Frederick James Clarke (1 March 1915 – 4 February 2002) was a civil and military engineer with the United States Army Corps of Engineers. Clarke was one of three commissioners appointed to run the District of Columbia from 1960 to 1963. He rose to the rank of lieutenant General as the Chief of Engineers.
This list is drawn from alumni of the Military Academy who are engineers. Most of the U.S. Army's Chiefs of Engineers were Academy alumni; beginning with Joseph Gardner Swift (class of 1802) and most recently the current Chief of Engineers, Robert L. Van Antwerp, Jr. (class of 1972).
In response to the news story, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers described the event as an isolated incident. [32] Three days after the incident was publicized, the Commander of the New Orleans District of the Corps of Engineers, Colonel Alvin Lee, issued a formal apology.
Plan of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. The history of United States Army Corps of Engineers can be traced back to the American Revolution.On 16 June 1775, the Continental Congress organized the Corps of Engineers, whose initial staff included a chief engineer and two assistants. [6]
U.S. Army lieutenant general and commander, Army Corps of Engineers: Clarence E. Sutton: 1890 Medal of Honor recipient, resigned in 1888, did not graduate Sun Li-jen: 1927 Republic of China/Taiwan lieutenant general, Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War Surapong Suwan-ath 1979 Royal Thai Army General, Chief of Defence Forces, 2016-2017