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A Dec. 1 groundbreaking ceremony marked the official beginning of construction on the $133 million Wiesbaden Army Family Housing Community. The project will construct up to 300 family townhouses, duplexes and single-family three and four bedroom units. the units will each have a garage, small front and back yards, and hardwood floors - a typical American suburban design. The units will replace the older stairwell apartments and provide a more comfortable community. The community itself will have playgrounds, picnic areas with grills, a sports field, running/biking path, and community plazas for yard sales.The project is expected to be complete by Spring 2012. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District photo by Carol E. Davis)
NORFOLK, Va. (June 17, 2014) – Cherrystone Aqua-Farms employees offload spat-on-shell oysters, which are baby oysters set onto oyster shells in a hatchery, for their final destination and seeding onto a permanent sanctuary oyster reef in the Lafayette River, adjacent to Norfolk International Terminals, Inc.
Last October, Corps contractor Precon Marine Inc. of Chesapeake, Va., began phase two of a 10-year, $70 million, and 411-acre environmental mitigation plan to offset ecological impacts associated with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s Craney Island Eastward Expansion, or CIEE, project.
Phase two involved the construction of six permanent sanctuary oyster reefs, totaling 16 acres.
Through a special agreement with the Virginia Marine Resources Commission, Precon Marine Inc. used 39,000 cubic yards of fossil oyster shell dredged from the lower James River to build-up areas where historic reefs were once located.
The layer of fossil shell will serve as the reef base throughout the proposed mitigation area.
The reefs will incorporate knowledge and experience gained from other Corps oyster reef restoration and habitat projects in Virginia’s Great Wicomico, Rappahannock and Lynnhaven rivers, and Tangier and Pocomoke sounds.
The project enters its final phase as the six oyster reefs are carefully hand-seeded with six million spat-on-shell oysters.
The CIEE project, which is expanding Craney Island with dredged material fill that will serve as the base for a new port terminal, is expected to impact the bottom of the Elizabeth River. The project’s environmental mitigation plan uses a “landscape approach,” which allows all three-habitat elements – wetlands creation, oyster restoration and creation, and remediation of Elizabeth River bottom – to thrive and sustain each other.
The Virginia Port Authority, partnering with the Corps, completed first phase of mitigation last November, with an 11-acre wetlands creation project at Paradise Creek Nature Park in Portsmouth, Va.
The Elizabeth and Lafayette rivers benefit from the second phase, which is aimed at restoring a sustainable oyster population.
Once the baby spat are placed onto the oyster reefs, they should help jump-start the reef’s oyster biomass and increase its chances of success, said Corps officials.
“This area along the Lafayette River is ideal for oyster growth because it is located on hard bottom historically used by oysters, and there are wild oyster populations upstream, which hopefully will attract other oysters to the reef,” said Keith Lockwood, Norfolk District’s Technical Support Section chief.
As permanent oyster sanctuary reefs, the areas will be off-limits to shellfish harvesting.
“Hopefully, years from now, we’ll start to see an increase in oyster recruitment along our six sanctuary oyster reefs. Once this increased recruitment occurs, we hope each site experiences a surge in its oyster population that will help build new, naturally-occurring reefs,” said David Schulte, oceanographer in the district’s planning branch. (U.S. Army photo/Gerald Rogers)
Rubic's Cube Solved! Whatever engineer/designer figured out the mounting system for the alternator and power steering pump should have been shot! Jeez, there's weird brackets and bolts everywhere!
Nakajima Hikoki K. K. J1N1-S Gekkos were the first Japanese aircraft designed and built specifically to intercept and destroy other aircraft at night and in poor weather. Gekkos achieved some notable successes during three years of service with the Japanese Navy. This design took shape in 1938 not as a night interceptor, but as a long-range fighter that could protect bombers. During the war with China, Japanese naval pilots complained of excessive bomber losses to Chinese fighters based beyond the range of Japanese fighters. The navy issued specifications to both Mitsubishi and Nakajima for a 3-seat, twin-engined escort fighter. The aircraft's speed must be at least 518 kph (322 mph) and it had to have a normal range of 2,410 km (1,496 miles) and a maximum range of 3,706 km (2,302 miles). Armament must include forward-firing cannon and machine guns plus a flexible gun to defend against tail attacks. The most important specification ultimately defeated the whole concept. The aircraft had to maneuver well enough to successfully engage single-engine fighters.
The Nakajima design, called the J1N1 and crafted by engineer Katsuji Nakamura, most readily met the navy's requirements and a prototype was flight-tested in May 1941. In the two years since the navy's original demand, Mitsubishi had developed and placed into service the Zero fighter (also in the NASM collection) and this superlative airplane had solved the bomber escort problem. Nakajima nonetheless forged ahead and flew a J1N1 prototype May 2. A year-and-a-half of flight tests proved beyond doubt that this aircraft was inferior to single-engine fighters. Except for range and takeoff distance, the type failed to meet any requirements in the 1938 specifications. The Germans also foolishly clung to the escort fighter concept. Early in the war, Germany placed in service a multi-engine, multi-seat escort fighter similar to the J1N1, the Messerschmitt Bf-110. It too failed disastrously in 1940 during the Battle of Britain when opposed by single-engine, single-seat Hurricane and Spitfire fighters. Like Nakajima, Messerschmitt salvaged this design when they transformed it into a successful night fighter.
The Japanese Navy took an interim step, however, before testing the J1N1 in night operations. The navy authorized Nakajima engineers to convert the design into a high-speed, long-range, naval reconnaissance aircraft based on land. Sweeping changes to the airframe, engines, and armament made the aircraft more reliable and suitable for the new mission. Between April 1942 and March 1943, Nakajima delivered just fifty-four of the new model, the J1N1-C, including four prototypes. U. S. forces first encountered the aircraft during early operations in the Solomon Islands and codenamed it the IRVING. The J1N1-Cs served in limited numbers and flew primarily from the great Japanese base at Rabaul on New Britain. The base was a regular target for night-flying U. S. Army Air Forces Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses (see NASM collection). Sometime in the spring of 1943, Commander Yasuna Kozono ordered a J1N1-C modified for night interceptor work. Maintenance crews cleaned out the observer's position behind the pilot and mounted two 20 mm cannon fixed to fire above and to the front of the new night fighter at a 30-degree angle. Two more cannons were mounted in similar fashion but fired downward. The experimental airplane was designated the J1N1-C KAI.
On the night of May 21, the modified IRVING intercepted and shot down a pair to B-17 bombers. This immediate success caught the attention of the Naval Staff and they ordered Nakajima to begin full-scale production. The new interceptor was named the J1N1-S Gekko (Moonlight). At this time, no one in Allied intelligence circles expected the Japanese to field an effective night fighter and months passed before anyone discovered what lay behind a string of regular and mysterious losses of both B-17s and Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers.
Nakajima concentrated on producing the Gekko version of the J1N for the remainder of the war.
In the summer of 1944, U. S. Marine and U. S. Army infantry divisions captured the Mariana Islands during several months of vicious combat. This important victory provided air fields from which to attack all the important Japanese cities and industrial targets in the home islands. U. S. Army Air Forces crews flying Boeing B-29 Superfortresses began flying daylight, precision bombing raids against Japan in November. In January, tactics changed to night, low-altitude attacks and the Gekko was one of many types of Japanese night fighters pressed into defending the homeland. There were some spectacular missions flown by IRVING crews but overall, Japan's night interceptors achieved limited results. The B-29 cruised approximately 80 kph (50 mph) faster than either the B-17 or B-24. Gekko crews usually could rarely make more than a single pass at the fast Superfortresses. Lt. Sachio Endo was credited with destroying eight B-29s and damaging another eight before he fell to the gun crews of a B-29. Another Gekko crew shot down five B-29s in one night but these combat successes were rare. Japan's night fighter forces were no match for the overwhelming number of B-29s with their great speed and defensive firepower. Escorting Allied fighter aircraft also took their toll. Many IRVINGs were shot down, destroyed on the ground, or expended during Tokko missions. Tokko is the Japanese term for Special Purpose Attackers, known in the West as kamikaze attacks. By war's end, Nakajima had built 486 Gekkos. Although the IRVING night fighter was an able night fighter, there were never enough to significantly impact the air war.
The NASM J1N1-S Gekko is the only one remaining today. Following the occupation of the home islands, U. S. forces gathered 145 interesting Japanese aircraft and sent them to the United States aboard three aircraft carriers. Four IRVINGs were in this group: three captured at Atsugi and one from Yokosuka. Serial Number 7334, the aircraft from Yokosuka, was given Foreign Equipment number FE 3031 (later changed to T2-N700). It eventually joined the Smithsonian's growing collection but the other three IRVINGs were scrapped.
Records show that after arriving aboard the "USS Barnes," air intelligence officials assigned '7334 to Langley Field, Virginia, on December 8, 1945. The airplane moved on to the Air Materiel depot at Middletown, Pennsylvania, on January 23, 1946. The Maintenance Division at Middletown prepared the Gekko for flight tests, overhauling the engines and replacing the oxygen system, radios, and some flight instruments with American equipment. Mechanics completed this work by April 9. The Navy transferred '7334 to the Army in early June, and an army pilot flew the Gekko on June 15, 1946, for about 35 minutes. At least one other test flight took place before the Army Air Forces flew the fighter to Park Ridge, Illinois, for museum storage.
The collection of museum aircraft at Park Ridge numbered more than 60 airplanes when the war in Korea forced the United States Air Force to move it to the site we now call the Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration and Storage Facility in Suitland, Maryland. The IRVING was dumped outside in a large shipping crate until buildings became available in 1974. In 1979, NASM staff selected IRVING for restoration. Only the second Japanese airplane to receive the skilled attentions of NASM restoration craftsmen, this rare airframe was actively corroding in many places. It was only the second Japanese aircraft restored by NASM, after the Mitsubishi Zero completed in 1976. At that time, it was the largest and most complex aircraft restoration project NASM had undertaken. Work started on September 7, 1979, and ended December 14, 1983, following 17,000 hours of meticulous, dedicated labor. It stands today as the sole remaining example of Japan's night-fighting Gekkos
Manufacturer: Nakajima Hikoki K. K.
Date: 1942
Country of Origin: Japan
Dimensions:
Overall: 15ft 1 1/8in. x 41ft 11 15/16in., 10670.3lb., 55ft 9 5/16in. (460 x 1280cm, 4840kg, 1700cm)
Materials:
All-metal, monocoque construction airplane
Physical Description:
Twin-engine, conventional layout with tailwheel-type landing gear. Armament: (2) 20 mm fixed upward firing cannon Engines: (2) Nakajima Sakae 21 (NK1F, Ha35- 21) 14- cylinder air-cooled radial 1,130 horsepower (metric)
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Boeing engineer Tony Castilleja chats about space with Raisbeck Aviation High School students.
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Governor Phil Murphy attends NJ TRANSIT’s engineer completion of formal training ceremony in Kearny on January 21, 2020.(Edwin J. Torres/ Governor’s Office)
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By Dave Palmer
LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles County Post of the Society of American Military Engineers held a small business forum and monthly organizational meeting Nov. 8.
The morning featured panel discussions focusing on small business, many veteran-owned, and how they can team with federal agencies and the Department of Defense in nearly a half-a-billion dollars in small business contracts the District awards annually.
"In the panel discussions we had small business experts from federal and local agencies discussing how small businesses can get work," said Deputy District Commander Lt. Col. Steve Sigloch. "We had an attorney with 30-years in the business of dealing with all the regulations pertaining to small business. He briefed that in the past year almost 300 pages of updates were made, he went into some detail of those updates so small businesses are better prepared, better educated on how to qualify as a small business."
The guest speaker for the meeting, Brig. Gen. Ted Harrison, the Director of the National Contracting Organization, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has a wide range of contracting and procurement experience. For his talk, he focused on operational and contract support planning for emergency and contingency operations.
"As you well know the Corps of Engineers executes its mission by leveraging a very vibrant commercial sector through contracting support in just about every mission area," said Harrison. "On any given day, approximately 300,000 contract employees actively support our various projects around the world."
"Contingency operations, by their very nature, require a very short response time," he said. "Any contract support planning you can do ahead of time, before disasters strike or a contingency occurs, makes execution much more effective."
The past year was an exceptional one. The Corps of Engineers managed emergency operations from extreme flooding along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers to severe tornados in Alabama and Missouri.
"We have a series of contracts for our FEMA support mission that are called advance contractor initiatives," said Harrison. "They're in place now for large scale debris removal, ice and water, temporary housing and power generation. These are the missions that the Corps of Engineers has to support FEMA in disaster response and recovery. We also utilize small businesses in a great way in many of these contracts."
"We met and exceeded all of our goals, in contracting with small business, this past year," added Sigloch. "For fiscal year 2012 we're increasing goals by at least a percentage point or two in each category, based on historical past practice."
"You really have a commitment from the Chief of Engineers, right on down to the Districts that want to engage with you, that want to understand more about how you like to do business, and what our needs are and open dialog with you," Harrison added.
My first 10 months in country were spent in Phu Loi as part of the First Infantry Division. The last two in the delta with the 34th Engineers.
Consumers Energy engineer Karli Mayer worked with the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers while at the University of Michigan and is a member of the SHPE Detroit Professional Chapter.
DB class 66/0 no. 66056 passes Copmanthorpe on 17th July 2025 with an engineers working, 6X07 from York Engineers' Yard to Doncaster Decoy. About to overtake is LNER Azuma class 801 no. 801218 with 1E12, the 11.00 from Edinburgh to Kings Cross.
along with his student (i feel really good that engineers are taking part).
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Trouty, NL 29 September 2010
New Medium Girder Bridge
A Medium Girder Bridge is built by 4 ESR and 56 Engineer Company, St. John's NL, for the residents of Trouty NL on the Bonavista Penninsula, Newfoundland and Labrador. The community of Trouty was literally cut off from supplies and vehicle traffic when the only bridge that connected the community to the mainland was washed away by high water levels brought on by Hurricane Igor.
Operation LAMA (A) 02-10 is the Canadian Forces (CF) joint response led by Canada Command and conducted through Joint Task Force Atlantic (JTFA) to the devastation caused by Hurricane Igor to southern and eastern Newfoundland on 21 September 2010. The domestic humanitarian relief mission incorporated Canadian Forces land, maritime and air assets to deliver much needed assistance to isolated Newfoundland communities cut off by severe road damage. More than 1,000 members from the Air, Land and Maritime components of the CF, in coordination with the Federal Government of Canada and the Provincial Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, are engaged in multiple tasks on Op LAMA (A) 02-10, including: delivering critical supplies such as food, water, medical supplies and fuel; providing medical evacuation; assisting in moving power crews and materials to repair power grids; delivering generators and re-supplying fuel to main communications nodes; assisting with bridging and road repair and transporting engineering analysis teams.
Canadian Forces Image Number LH2010-016-013
By WO Jerry Kean with LFAA Public Affairs
_____________________________Traduction
Trouty, T.-N.-L., 29 septembre 2010
Un nouveau pont moyen à poutres
Le 4 RAG et la 56e Compagnie de génie, St. John’s, à T. N. L., construisent un pont moyen à poutres pour les résidents de Trouty, sur la péninsule Bonavista, à Terre Neuve et Labrador.
Le 4e Régiment d’appui du génie de la Base des Forces canadiennes Gagetown a fourni de 120 à 150 militaires, ainsi que 39 véhicules, qui se sont rendus jusqu’à Terre Neuve et Labrador pour prendre part à la reconstruction d’un pont et à la construction d’un système de purification d’eau pour les collectivités isolées dans toute la presqu’île Avalon.
Les militaires ont été appelés à prêter main-forte aux autorités civiles après le passage de l’ouragan Igor sur les côtes sud de Terre Neuve et Labrador. Igor a déversé plus de 200 mm de pluie, a occasionné des pannes d’électricité généralisées et a détruit de nombreux ponts.
Image des Forces canadiennes numéro LH2010-016-013
Par l’Adj Jerry Kean avec Affaires publiques du SAFT
This photograph depicts a Los Angeles Railway Mechanical Engineer working on a 1700 type coach, June 28, 1937.
This item is from a collection of Los Angeles Railway Corporation Records Finding aid for this collection is at the Online Archive of California: www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c82j697s/
Governor Phil Murphy attends NJ TRANSIT’s engineer completion of formal training ceremony in Kearny on January 21, 2020.(Edwin J. Torres/ Governor’s Office)
Victory Rover Cruise - Norfolk, Virginia - 10 JUL 2009
US Army Corps of Engineers buildings as viewed from the Elizabeth River.
Jean Morris and a team of young engineers from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) took a central role in building and testing prototype ventilators against a developing MHRA specification.
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CROW VALLEY, Philippines (Apr. 23, 2015) - U.S. Marine Cpl. Erik Santos, a combat engineers assigned to Combat Logistic Battalion explains detonation triggers to Philippine Marine explosive ordnance disposal technicians assigned to Motor Transportation and Maintenance Battalion, Service Support Brigade during Exercise Balikatan 2015. The Marines both discussed and demonstrated the techniques and equipment they each use to do their job. Balikatan, which means "shoulder-to-shoulder" in Filipino, in an annual bilateral training exercise between U.S. and Philippine forces improving security cooperation activities, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief capabilities, and crisis response throughout the region. (Marine Corps Photo by Cpl. Joey S. Holeman, Jr./Released) 141206-M-PU373-027
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Governor Phil Murphy attends NJ TRANSIT’s engineer completion of formal training ceremony in Kearny on January 21, 2020.(Edwin J. Torres/ Governor’s Office)
Civil Engineer firsties (foreground) construct a two-story, two-bay steel structure during the department's Structure's Project Day outside Pershing Barracks on Aug. 24. The day long lab gave students hands on experience in constructing a steel stucture, as well building a wood shed, working with masonry and using a computer for reading and drawing plans. The wood shed in the background will be used for storage on Constitution Island when it is completed. The West Point Civil Engineering program, recently ranked #2 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, "teaches students ot logically and critically solve problems" said Maj. Adam Chalmers, assistant professor of Civil Engineering. (Photo by Master Sgt. Dean Welch/Dir. of Public Affairs & Comunications)
“Engineers comprise another crucial part in DARKDAWN’s total military force. Though lacking in advanced combat skills, and thus vulnerable when exposed on the battlefield or behind enemy lines, engineers are capable of repairing almost any broken machinery or piece of hardware in record time. Their skill with the tools of their trade and their speed with their hands and brains allows them to conserve precious time and increase the chances of a mission’s success. Often wielding short submachine guns, and covered in storage pouches, engineers are always handy and ready to tackle any misbehaving piece of machinery, resolving the situation as fast as they know how.”
Primary Weapon of Choice: Short Submachine Gun
Secondary Weapon(s) of Choice: (Wrench?)
Effective #Units per Assignment: As Needed
Preferred Hours of Operation: Daylight
Skills & Qualifications: Basic Weapons Training, Advanced Training in Mechanics & Engineering, TERR (Tactical Equipment Recovery and Repair), etc.
Europe District paid tribute to Kurt Glockengiesser for his distinguished service as an electrical engineer in the Engineering and Construction Division during an award ceremony July 31 at the Amelia Earhart Center in Wiesbaden, Germany. Lt. Col. Charles Hemphill, deputy commander, presented him with a Certificate of Retirement and the Commander’s Award for Civilian Service. Glockengiesser’s wife, Gina, also attended and the couple received gifts from district colleagues. The German local national employee first joined then-Europe Division in 1977, working for seven years at the Frankfurt headquarters. He went into private business but rejoined U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District in April 2002. He provided exceptional advice and support to field offices while directly contributing to the quality of facilities constructed by the district with his technical expertise and professionalism, according to the award citation. He also mentored countless U.S. personnel on construction and European electrical safety. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Vince Little)
Governor Phil Murphy attends NJ TRANSIT’s engineer completion of formal training ceremony in Kearny on January 21, 2020.(Edwin J. Torres/ Governor’s Office)
Spc. Ryan Holly and Spc. Duran Cornelius, fire fighters with the 1157th Engineer Firefighter Company, reroll a fire house outside of the Incident Command Center in Fort Collins, Colo., to ensure their fire engine is ready when called upon, June 14, 2012. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Jessica Barnett, Kansas Adjutant General’s Department Public Affairs Office)