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A soldier assigned to the 50th Engineer Company, 1st Platoon, Camp Laguardia, Republic of Korea, ducks as a pontoon bridge section unloaded from an M945 Bridge Transporter, splashes into the Imjin River, ROK, during a bridge building training exercise on Oct. 22, 1998. Many of the participants in todays exercise are officers participating in accordance with the U.S. Army Officer Professional Development Program, a program designed to improve team building and soldiery. (U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant James Mossman) (Released0
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Mar. 14, 2020, in Orlando, Fla.
(U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sgt. Maria Henderson, 204th Public Affairs Detachment)
66419 FLOrange 66714 EP Pass TROWEL Junction 48 late while in charge of the 6M73 10:50 DONCASTER UP DECOY - TOTON NORTH YARD Engineers , Thursday 13th JUNE 2019
A Soldier from the Florida Army National Guard's 779th Engineer Battalion prepares ice tea during the Philip A. Connelly Food Service competition in Tallahassee, Fla., Feb. 2, 2014. Photo by Master Sgt. Thomas Kielbasa
Holocaust Memorial; Denkmal fur die ermordeten Juden Europas"
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (German: Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas), also known as the Holocaust Memorial Holocaust-Mahnmal, is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. It consists of a 19,000 square metres (4.7 acres) site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The stelae are 2.38 m (7 ft 10 in) long, 0.95 m (3 ft 1 in) wide and vary in height from 0.2 to 4.8 m (8 in to 15 ft 9 in). According to Eisenman's project text, the stelae are designed to produce an uneasy, confusing atmosphere, and the whole sculpture aims to represent a supposedly ordered system that has lost touch with human reason. A 2005 copy of the Foundation for the Memorial's official English tourist pamphlet, however, states that the design represents a radical approach to the traditional concept of a memorial, partly because Eisenman did not use any symbolism. An attached underground "Place of Information" Ort der Information holds the names of all known Jewish Holocaust victims, obtained from the Israeli museum Yad Vashem.
Building began on April 1, 2003 and was finished on December 15, 2004. It was inaugurated on May 10, 2005, sixty years after the end of World War II, and opened to the public two days later. It is located one block south of the Brandenburg Gate, in the Friedrichstadt neighbourhood. The cost of construction was approximately €25 million.
The memorial is controversial, and was described by Gnats Bubbies, the then leader of the German Jewish community, as unnecessary.
History
German journalist Lea Rosh was the driving force behind the memorial. In 1989, she founded a group to support its construction and to collect donations. With growing support, the Bundestag passed a resolution in favour of the project.
First competition
In April 1994 a competition for its design was announced in Germany's major newspapers. Twelve artists were specifically invited to submit a design and given 50,000 DM (€ 25,000) to do so. The only rules and guidelines given were that building the project could only cost up to 15 million DM (€ 7.5 million). The winning proposal was to be selected by a jury consisting of representatives from the fields of art, architecture, urban design, history, politics and administration. It included a few minor celebrities such as Frank Schirrmacher, co-editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The deadline for the proposals was October 28. On May 11, an information colloquium took place in Berlin, where people interested in submitting a design could receive some more information about the nature of the memorial to be designed. Ignatz Bubis, the president of the Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland, and Wolfgang Nagel, the construction senator of Berlin, spoke at the event.
Before the deadline, the documents required to submit a proposal were requested over 2600 times and 528 proposals were submitted. The jury met on January 15, 1995 to pick the best submission. First, Walter Jens, the president of the Akademie der Künste was elected chairman of the jury. In the following days, all but 13 submissions were eliminated from the race in several rounds of looking through all works. As had already been arranged, the jury met again on March 15. 11 submissions were restored to the race as requested by several jurors, after they had had a chance to review the eliminated works in the months in between the meetings. Two works were then recommended by the jury to the foundation to be checked as to whether they could be completed within the price range given. One was designed by a group around the architect Simon Ungers from Hamburg; it consisted of 85x85 m square of steel girders on top of concrete blocks located on the corners. The names of several extermination camps would be perforated into the girders, so that these would be projected onto objects or people in the area by sunlight. The other winner was a design by Christine Jackob-Marks. Her concept consisted of 100x100 m large concrete plate, 7 meters thick. It would be tilted, rising up to 11 meters and walkable on special paths. The names of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust would be engraved into the concrete, with spaces left empty for those victims whose names remain unknown. Large pieces of debris from Massada, a mountaintop-fortress in Israel, whose Jewish inhabitants killed themselves to avoid being captured or killed by the Roman soldiers rushing in, would be spread over the concrete plate. These plans would eventually be vetoed by Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
Peter Eisenman's plan emerged as the winner of the next competition in November 1997. On June 25, 1999, a large majority of the Bundestag decided in favour of Eisenman's plan, modified by attaching a museum, or "place of information," designed by Berlin-based exhibition designer Dagmar von Wilcken. Across the street from the northern boundary of the memorial is the new Embassy of the United States in Berlin, which opened July 4, 2008. For a while, issues over setback for U.S. embassy construction impacted the memorial. Construction of the memorial started in April 2003.
On December 15, 2004 the memorial was finished. It was dedicated on May 10, 2005 as part of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of V-E Day and opened to the public two days later. Holocaust survivor Sabina Wolanski was chosen to speak on behalf of the six million dead. In her speech she noted that although the Holocaust had taken everything she valued, it had also taught her that hatred and discrimination are doomed to fail. She also emphasised that the children of the perpetrators of the Holocaust are not responsible for the actions of their parents.
It is estimated that some 3.5 million visitors entered the memorial in the first year it was open, or about 10,000 every day. About 490,000 people also visited the underground Information Centre, 40% of them non-Germans. The foundation operating the memorial considered this a success; its head, Uwe Neumärker, called the memorial a "tourist magnet". There was also vandalism, however: swastikas were drawn on the stelae on five different occasions in this first year.
Newspaper 12-3-1969
Corps of Engineers officials say the low level of Lake Cumberland is normal for this time of year and not connected to work started recently at Wolf Creek Dan. The lake level is 686.29 feet above sea level and 36.71 feet below pool stage.
James Slaughter Photography Collection
611 engineer Frank Collins pulls out on the throttle while making a backup move for a runby at Sterling IL. on the C&NW in 1983.
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A soldier assigned to the 50th Engineer Company, 1st Platoon, Camp Laguardia, Republic of Korea, and elements of the 2-9 Infantry, Camp Casey, ROK, rest after building a pontoon bridge on the Imjin River, ROK, for a simulated bridge building training exercise on Oct. 22, 1998. As a safety precaution their pant legs have been de,bloused to allow water drainage in the event they were to fall into the river. (U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant James Mossman) (Released)
Snapshot of a large number of palm trees in a jungle area somewhere in the Philippines around 1945 or 1946 during World War II. Photograph taken while James W. Setzer of Maiden, NC, was serving in the 29th Engineer Topographic Battalion in the Philippines (circa 1945-1946).
From James W. Setzer Papers, WWII 245, WWII Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Mayor Edna Jackson visits the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Savannah District as part of the Army's Women's History Month observance, March 29, 2012. The Mayor spoke to employees on the theme of "Women's Education - Women's Empowerment." USACE photo by George Jumara.
Fort Knox, KY – One Hundred 19th Engineer Battalion Soldiers returning from a 9-month deployment to Kuwait were welcomed homed during a ceremony at the new 19th Engineer Battalion Complex Aug. 10 at 4:45 a.m.
The ceremony featured the uncasing of the unit’s colors by 19th ENG Commander Lt. Col. John Lloyd – a military tradition signifying the battalion’s return to duty at Fort Knox.
During the deployment, the battalion carried out numerous construction projects. Examples include about 130,000 labor hours spent on forward operating base construction at Camps Arifjan and Buehring in Kuwait. The 19th Engineers also assisted Tajikistan locals with infrastructure improvement projects.
Upon its return, the battalion will occupy the newly constructed 19th Engineer Battalion Complex. The state-of-the-art $41.1 million complex is comprised of more than 190,000 square feet of administrative, barracks and training space.
This has been the battalion’s fourth deployment since they were reactivated at Fort Knox in 2005.
Poster concept for the University of Alberta Chapter of Engineers' Without Borders - www.ualberta.ewb.ca
Mar. 14, 2020, in Orlando, Fla.
(U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sgt. Maria Henderson, 204th Public Affairs Detachment)
District Engineer Col. Edward P. Chamberlayne presents the Humanitarian Award for Civilian Service to employees of the district who deployed to assist with Hurricane Sandy relief efforts at his Town Hall in Baltimore, July 28, 2015. The award is presented by the Department of the Army to individuals who have distinguished themselves by meritorious direct “hands-on” participation in an act or operation of a humanitarian nature directed toward an individual or groups of individuals. (U.S. Army photo by David Gray)
Huntington, Ind. - DJ Unger uses a cutting torch to cut a cable used in anchoring the log boom at J. Edward Roush Lake.
(US Army Corps of Engineers photo by Jared Perrott)
U.S. Army National Guard Soldiers with the 122nd Engineer Battalion, South Carolina National Guard, help clear debris in Pickens County, South Carolina, May 5, 2020, in the aftermath of storms that impacted the state, April 13. The South Carolina National Guard is capable of supporting in response to storms and other natural disasters in the state in support of civilian partners for as long as needed. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Roby Di Giovine, South Carolina National Guard)
Many of the engineering labs are located along this corridor. Just a few doors down we created concrete beams and tested their strength by breaking them with predicted results.
As part of Railroading Heritage of Midwest America's Train Day and Car Show at Silvis, Illinois, a night photo session was held featuring Santa Fe B40-8W 537, UP DDA40X 6936, and Jeddo Highland Coal Company 0-4-0T No. 85. Lighting by Dave Zeman
Pfc. Jose Reyna, a technical engineer for 18th Engineer Brigade from Laredo, Texas, uses a power drill to secure flooring to deck frame Dec. 9 at Patrick Henry Village in Heidelberg, Germany. (Photo by Spc. Aislinn M. Amig, 18th Eng. Bde. Public Affairs)
About 200 Canadian Army Reserve Combat Engineers and support personnel from B.C., Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario were in Chilliwack and Cultus Lake for four days of training during Exercise Paladin Response 2012 from Dec. 27-30, 2012. The exercises included building and disassembling two different types of land bridges — medium girder bridges and Acrow bridges which are used to span gaps — plus medium rafts (aka medium floating bridges). After the bridges and rafts are constructed, the soldiers drive and transport military trucks across the structures. The main focus for the exercises is to be able to use these bridges and rafts for natural disasters here in Canada, although they can and have been used overseas. JENNA HAUCK/ PROGRESS
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At Camp Red Cloud in Uijeongbu July 30, community members hold a farewell luncheon in honor of Lt.Col. Jason Jones. Col. John M. Scott, Commander, USAG Red Cloud and Area I, praised Jones, an engineer, for his technical oversight to meet Area I transformation goals and program objectives. Jones was joined at the luncheon by his wife and three children.