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The Flood Control Act of 1928 (FCA 1928) (70th United States Congress, Sess. 1.Ch. 569, enacted May 15, 1928) authorized the United States Army Corps of Engineers to design and construct projects for the control of floods on the Mississippi River and its tributaries as well as the Sacramento River in California. [1]
The US Coast Guard under command of the US Navy has also participated in riverine warfare. Riverine warfare has a long history in the Navy, dating back to the Revolutionary War , when American sailors in row galleys engaged the formidable warships of the hated British overseers operating in colonial waterways.
Water companies of the United States (1 C, 78 P) Pages in category "Water management authorities in the United States" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total.
Map of the NAWAPA project (right), as compared with the GRAND, a continental water management scheme of similar scale. The North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWPA or NAWAPA; also referred to as NAWAPTA after the proposed governing body, the North American Water and Power Treaty Authority) was a proposed continental water management scheme conceived in the 1950s by the US Army Corps of ...
The United States Department of Defense (DoD, [2] USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising the five U.S. armed services, the Army; Navy; Marines; Air Force; Space Force; the Coast Guard for some purposes, and related functions and agencies.
A Mobile Riverine Force monitor using napalm in the Vietnam War. In the Vietnam War, the Mobile Riverine Force (MRF) (after May 1967), initially designated Mekong Delta Mobile Afloat Force, and later the Riverines, were a joint US Army and US Navy force that comprised a substantial part of the brown-water navy.
The President of the United States is, according to the Constitution, the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces and Chief Executive of the Federal Government. The Secretary of Defense is the "Principal Assistant to the President in all matters relating to the Department of Defense", and is vested with statutory authority (10 U.S.C. § 113) to lead the Department and all of its component ...
List of initialisms, acronyms ("words made from parts of other words, pronounceable"), and other abbreviations used by the government and the military of the United States. Note that this list is intended to be specific to the United States government and military—other nations will have their own acronyms.