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U.S. Army Reserve combat engineer Soldiers from the 374th Engineer Company (Sapper), headquartered in Concord, Calif., performed a Combat Water Survival Training at Fort Hunter Liggett, Calif., and a helicopter cast into the Lopez Lake, July 17, during a two-week field exercise known as a Sapper Leader Course Prerequisite Training at Camp San Luis Obispo Military Installation, Calif. The unit is grading its Soldiers on various events to determine which ones will earn a spot on a "merit list" to attend the Sapper Leader Course at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. (U.S. Army photo by Master Sgt. Michel Sauret)
Crashing in the ship made him angry.
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Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia is the world's largest Naval Station, home to 75 active ships with 14 piers and supporting facilities on about 4,300 acres. CEC Officers play a vital role providing services to ships as they come into home port or prepare to deploy.
More than 130 volunteers came out on a beautiful Saturday for J. Strom Thurmond Lake’s celebration of National Public Lands Day Sept. 27. This year's efforts were centered on West Dam Park and included removing unwanted vegetation, painting tables and benches, cleaning grills, and building blue bird boxes. SeaTow, a frequent sponsor of Corps water safety activities, and volunteers from Divers of Augusta worked together to remove underwater debris and trash from the face of the dam. More volunteers worked in Bussey Point making improvements to equestrian trails and many other volunteers donated their time at state parks and marinas around the lake. The day was capped with an appreciation picnic at the West Dam shelter where a new cooperating partnership was announced with the Southern Off-Road Bicycle association that will lead to continued improvements to the Bartram Trail (USACE photos by Eric Haskell, Scott Hyatt and Justin Walter).
Opa & Taz spent a good part of christmas morning building this lego jet. It was very cute to watch them work harmoniously together.
this is a terrible and quickly taken picture, but it captures josie's absolute joy at one of her favorite gifts, a train whistle, hat and scarf. josie loooooves trains, and insisted on bringing all three to bed with her, and wearing them to school today as well. and, you might as well get to wear your engineer hat to school when you are two.
also, thank you! alice for the gift, and also- ow! that big old train whistle hurts if you are bopped with it at four in the morning when your daughter has a croupy cough and won't leave her train whistle in HER bed when you bring her into YOUR bed to keep a closer eye on her poor little coughing head.
Sound engineer for the Irish band, Slide.
It was a very, very mixed bag of tricks at this year's Great Lakes Folk Festival.
For those of you who don't know much (or anything) about this traditional arts festival I help to produce, we rely heavily upon donations and grants and sponsorships for funding. With Michigan's economy in the crapper as it is, state funding of the arts has been cut and continues to be threatened — by a Democratic Governor, no less. In such a weak economy, sponsorships are becoming fewer and further between. So... that makes it all the more important that we have good weather on our side in order to ensure the biggest possible crowds from which we hope to receive enough cash donations to support what we do for yet another year.
A few years ago, rain had been forecast for the entire weekend, but somehow managed to go north and south of East Lansing, sparing us. Last year, a mostly beautiful weekend was marred by forty- to fifty-minute cloudbursts on Saturday and Sunday. Luckily, things cleared quickly both days to minimize the number of festival deserters and/or no shows.
As things got off the ground last Friday night, skies were threatening, but rain held off. Shotgun Party kicked things off at the M.A.C. Stage and were greeted enthusiastically. The audience at Valley Court Park looked to be one of our biggest opening night crowds at that venue that we've had in all eight years of the festival's existence. A nice start. The Dance Stage was hopping with the brilliance of Alex Meixner. Things were looking up.
We were not so fortunate Saturday morning, however, as the rains came with a vengeance. It came down so hard at times that I imagined it never stopping... that I was witnessing the demise of our festival. The rain finally moved out of the area between 2:00 and 3:00 in the afternoon. The only activity, really, until that time happened at the dance tent, which was our only covered stage.
We improvised a little.
The Michigan Heritage Awards ceremony, originally scheduled for the dance tent, was brought indoors to the Marriott Hotel, as were two bands' performances (done sans sound systems). While not ideal, it worked. The performances were more intimate than they otherwise would have been. The awards ceremony was pretty well attended and benefited from not having to compete with the rain. We replaced the awards ceremony and one performance set at the dance tent with a couple of sets originally scheduled at one of the uncovered venues.
It was heartening to see the crowds get pretty big pretty quickly after the rain had stopped and we'd begun the day's activities. I was afraid that everyone would just stay home. It's quite a tribute to our community that despite what looked like a continuing threat, they came out in such numbers. The sky cleared on several occasions and remained bright (and hot and muggy!) throughout the rest of the day. The most unfortunate aftermath of all the rain was the very wet Valley Court Park, where the bulk of our performances were scheduled until 11:00 pm. Standing water would keep people from sitting all that close to the stage through Sunday. Rain came at about 10:30, as the last two sets of the night were wrapping up.
Sunday was a good day, weather wise. It was hotter and muggier than Saturday, which affected crowds, but we had a pretty steady breeze and plenty of clouds to keep the sun from beating mercilessly down upon us. I'd heard we had a heat index of 110°F. Most importantly, it didn't rain. Well... with the exception of a few drops towards the end of the final set It was as if the sky were flipping the bird at us, reminding us who was really in charge.
The remains of Spc Tyler Orgaard, killed in Afghanistan on Dec. 3, arrived home in Bismarck, N.D. at 4:30 p.m. CST on Dec. 10, 2012. Honorable Transfer was conducted by the North Dakota National Guard Military Funeral Honors Team.
Orgaard was one of two Soldiers assigned to the N.D. National Guard’s 818th Engineer Company (Sapper) killed in action Dec. 3 while on duty in Afghanistan. Also killed in the attack was Sgt. 1st Class Darren M. Linde, 41, of Devils Lake, N.D. Spc. Ian Charles Placek, 23, also of Bismarck, was wounded in the attack. They were conducting route clearance operations when an improvised explosive device struck their vehicle in southern Afghanistan. (Photo by Sgt. Brett Miller, N.D. National Guard)
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Chemical Engineer Mona Ponnapali, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, speaks to students regarding her career as an engineer with the Corps at the Career Connections Program on July 16. More than 120 high school juniors and seniors attended the event, which provided them the opportunity to chat with engineering professionals about their career paths and experience. The event was part of the Engineering Innovation Summer Program hosted by Johns Hopkins, now in its 9th year.
Governor Phil Murphy attends the NJT engineer graduation in Newark, May 6, 2019. Edwin J. Torres/Governor’s Office.
A Ukrainian combat training center engineer prepares to enter a mock house during training with Canadian and U.S. Army engineers to build their breaching skills, enabling them to teach those skills to Ukrainian army units who will rotate through the combat training center at the International Peacekeeping and Security Center, near Yavoriv, Ukraine, on Feb. 23 (Photo by Sgt. Anthony Jones, 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team)
Mar. 14, 2020, in Orlando, Fla.
(U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sgt. Maria Henderson, 204th Public Affairs Detachment)
Esta postal no es de mi colección / This Postcard is not from my collection.
Coming of World War II and Ford's mental collapse
Ford had opposed the United States' entry into World War II and continued to believe that international business could generate the prosperity that would head off wars. Ford "insisted that war was the product of greedy financiers who sought profit in human destruction". In 1939, he went so far as to claim that the torpedoing of U.S. merchant ships by German submarines was the result of conspiratorial activities undertaken by financier war-makers. The financiers to whom he was referring was Ford's code for Jews; he had also accused Jews of fomenting the First World War. In the run-up to World War II and when the war erupted in 1939, he reported that he did not want to trade with belligerents. Like many other businessmen of the Great Depression era, he never liked or entirely trusted the Franklin Roosevelt Administration, and thought Roosevelt was inching the U.S. closer to war. Ford continued to do business with Nazi Germany, including the manufacture of war materiel.[45] However, he also agreed to build warplane engines for the British government. In early 1940, he boasted that Ford Motor Company would soon be able to produce 1,000 U.S. warplanes a day, even though it did not have an aircraft production facility at that time.: Ford was a prominent early member of the America First Committee against World War II involvement, but was forced to resign from its executive board when his involvement proved too controversial.
Beginning in 1940, with the requisitioning of between 100 and 200 French POWs to work as slave laborers, Ford-Werke contravened Article 31 of the 1929 Geneva Convention.
When Rolls-Royce sought a U.S. manufacturer as an additional source for the Merlin engine (as fitted to Spitfire and Hurricane fighters), Ford first agreed to do so and then reneged. He "lined up behind the war effort" when the U.S. entered in December 1941.
Willow Run
Before the U.S. entered the war, responding to President Roosevelt's call in December 1940 for the "Great Arsenal of Democracy", Ford directed the Ford Motor Company to construct a vast new purpose-built aircraft factory at Willow Run near Detroit, Michigan. Ford broke ground on Willow Run in the spring of 1941, B-24 component production began in May 1942, and the first complete B-24 came off the line in October 1942. At 3,500,000 sq ft (330,000 m2), it was the largest assembly line in the world at the time. At its peak in 1944, the Willow Run plant produced 650 B-24s per month, and by 1945 Ford was completing each B-24 in eighteen hours, with one rolling off the assembly line every 58 minutes. Ford produced 9,000 B-24s at Willow Run, half of the 18,000 total B-24s produced during the war.
Edsel's death
When Edsel Ford died of cancer in 1943, aged only 49, Henry Ford nominally resumed control of the company, but a series of strokes in the late 1930s had left him increasingly debilitated, and his mental ability was fading. Ford was increasingly sidelined, and others made decisions in his name. The company was controlled by a handful of senior executives led by Charles Sorensen, an important engineer and production executive at Ford; and Harry Bennett, the chief of Ford's Service Unit, Ford's paramilitary force that spied on, and enforced discipline upon, Ford employees. Ford grew jealous of the publicity Sorensen received and forced Sorensen out in 1944. Ford's incompetence led to discussions in Washington about how to restore the company, whether by wartime government fiat, or by instigating a coup among executives and directors.
Forced out
Nothing happened until 1945 when, with bankruptcy a serious risk, Ford's wife Clara and Edsel's widow Eleanor confronted him and demanded he cede control of the company to his grandson Henry Ford II. They threatened to sell off their stock, which amounted to three quarters of the company's total shares, if he refused. Ford was reportedly infuriated, but had no choice but to give in. better source needed] The young man took over and, as his first act of business, fired Harry Bennett.
Mar. 14, 2020, in Orlando, Fla.
(U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sgt. Maria Henderson, 204th Public Affairs Detachment)
Dave Hetterly (Right), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District real estate specialist with the Arizona and Nevada Area Office in Phoenix, hands over the keys Aug. 17, 2010 to the Armed Forces Career Center here at University Plaza to Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Ephraim Fonseca. The Corps Los Angeles District Asset Management Division administers more than 250 recruiting station leases in three states and provides for modern facilities at locations ripe enough to attract future Marines, sailors, soldiers and airmen. (USACE photo by Lee Roberts)
BR 2-6-0 Class 2MT no. 46512 "E. V. Cooper, Engineer".
Built Swindon 1952. Owned by Highland Locomotive Company - LMS designed steam locomotive number 46512 is back in service after restoration, overhaul and a re-paint.
Things could have been very different for No 46512 which was retired from BR service in 1967 and sent to Woodham’s scrapyard in South Wales for cutting up. Fortunately, the yard owner had other priorities which meant that this and other locomotives were placed on sidings awaiting their fate. In March 1973, the recently established Strathspey Railway Company was looking for suitable steam locos for its Aviemore to Boat of Garten line and this one was purchased and stored initially at the Severn Valley Railway where restoration began before being taken up to Aviemore in 1982. Founding director, Mr Eric Cooper, was particularly responsible for her acquisition and return to service in Aviemore.
The SS Kaffir was wrecked on September 23, 1974.
Apparently, the engineer of the ship was supposed to be meeting the rest of the crew in a pub in Ayr, but went to the wrong pub.
Having had a few drinks, he decided, for reasons probably best only known to himself to set off in the ship anyway.
Apparently, having panicked and decided to turn back, and without a navigator, he ran aground on rocks.
He was rescued and arrested.
This hasn't turned out my favourite one from this location. As I was going, the rainbow developed and I couldn't resist trying to work it into the scene, but I'm not sure it works. It doesn't look anywhere near as vivid on a long exposure as it does on a filterless exposure, so the only way I could really include it whilst still smoothing the water was to blend a faster exposure of the sky with a long exposure of the sea. It looks a bit... strange, but I still quite like it anyway.
The Afghanistan Engineer District-South spent a few hours celebrating the engineer corps together over a delicious barbecue dinner as well as honoring our district family members who have completed their tours of duty. Maj. Gen. Michael Eyre, commander of the Transatlantic Division, presented awards to Cornelius Cheatham, Pedro Davila, and Karla Marshall. Verna Nelson was awarded the Commander’s Weekly Award for exceptional service.
The Engineer is at the controls of the Paddle Steamer Waverley's triple expansion engine while the Donkeyman records the movements in the log.
Hit RiverFront Park this afternoon and found a group of Combat Engineers from the 459th MRB, U.S.A.R. training with their launch and recovery vehicles and riverboats.
I have no idea what the designation for the boats are, but it has push knees.
It's not much of a fight
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"Although you are a small unit, you have left a big mark." These were the words spoken today by Lt. Col. Mostafiz, the Bangladesh Engineering Company Commander, during the UN medal ceremony held in Juba to recognize the contributions of 260 engineers during their year-long tour with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. Through their toil and sacrifice, the company has carried out more than 100 infrastructure projects to benefit the people of South Sudan, such as the rehabilitation of 125km of the Mvolo-Mundri road and construction of new facilities in UNMISS sites across the country.
Photo: UNMISS / Nektarios Markogiannis
Danny Lee, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, tests a garage door at a modular temporary fire station recently constructed in Joplin, Mo., as part of the ongoing recovery efforts after a massive EF-5 tornado struck the city May 22. Lee is a member of a planning and response team out of the Corps' New York District overseeing the project as part of its mission to provide temporary replacements for critical public facilities like schools and fire stations. (Photo by Chris Gardner, New York District public affairs)