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  • October

    PORTSMOUTH Va. – Col. Paul Olsen presents Jorel Nadal, a district safety and health specialist, with the pen he used to sign the Voluntary Protection Program Commitment Statement affirming the district’s support to participate in the safety program at the Craney Island Dredge Material Management Area here. Nadal worked to get the program off the ground at the facility, which will make the area safer for employees through extensive documentation and modeling, which identifies problematic areas; giving employers the chance to see trends and correct deficiencies.

    District one step closer to being accepted into OSHA program

    The Voluntary Protection Program uses performance-based criteria and requires extensive documentation in order to be in compliance. The program uses different models and tools to try and identify problematic areas so agencies can attempt to minimize and eliminate as many accidents as possible.

  • August

    NORFOLK – Roughly 40 district employees received an inspiring performance from Kate Campbell Stevenson who brought to life the lives of Abigail Adams, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alice Paul, and other women suffragists through costumes and music for the district’s Women’s Equality Day celebration held here August 22, 2012. Introduced into legislation in 1971, Women’s Equality Day celebrates the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote. The amendment was certified August 26, 1920.

    Stevenson wows district crowd at women’s event

    Kate Campbell Stevenson brought to life the lives of Abigail Adams, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alice Paul, and other women suffragists through costumes and music for the districts Women’s Equality Day celebration held here August 22, 2012.

  • May

    U.S. Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Aric Deuel, officer in charge of the aids to navigation team Chincoteague, points out where he thinks the new alignment should be for the Chincoteague navigation channel here, May 8, 2012. The new alignment proposal was presented and accepted by members of the Chincoteague navigation partnership, which is comprised of representatives from local government, federal agencies and commercial watermen who rely on the channel for their livelihoods. (U.S. Army photo/Patrick Bloodgood)

    Partnership keeps communication/channel open

    Local, state and federal officials met with commercial fishermen here on the small island May 8 to discuss the best way to keep the channel and harbor open and safe for all vessel traffic that uses the waterway.

  • April

    (From left to right) Col. Patrick Mahaney Jr., Lt. Col. Jack Haefner, Col. Paul Olsen and Mike McCarthy throw dirt during a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Asymmetric Warfare Group’s battle laboratory complex at Fort A.P Hill, Va. April 25, 2012. The $55 million dollar complex, construction of which is overseen by the Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will provide the Army with an area to test and adapt operating procedures to ever-changing wartime scenarios. (U.S. Army photo/Patrick Bloodgood)

    Corps oversees construction of new battle lab

    Construction is underway to expand the capabilities of a laboratory tasked by the Army to train Soldiers in an ever -changing wartime environment. The Army's Asymmetric Warfare Group battle laboratory celebrated its construction start in a ground-breaking ceremony yesterday on post.