U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Europe District | Wikipedia audio article

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00:03:37 1 Mission
00:04:18 1.1 Armed Forces
00:04:54 1.2 Department of Defense Agencies
00:05:34 1.3 Other governmental agencies
00:06:16 2 Programs
00:06:25 2.1 1. U.S. Military Construction (MILCON)
00:07:04 2.1.1 * Task Force – East (TF-E) –
00:07:34 2.1.2 * Army and Air Force Family Housing (AFH/AAFH) –
00:08:19 2.1.3 * Department of Defense Dependent Schools, Europe (DoDDS-E) –
00:09:11 2.2 2. NAU's Installation Support (ISB) Program
00:10:25 2.3 3. Environmental Support -
00:11:18 2.4 4. The U.S. Operations and Maintenance (O&M) –
00:12:12 2.5 5. Defense Commissary Agency and Army Air Force Exchange Service Projects –
00:12:48 2.6 7. Foreign Military Sales (FMS) –
00:13:51 2.7 8. International Engineering –
00:16:36 2.8 9. Contingency Support: -



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For over a quarter of a century, The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe District, (NAU) has provided both installation and contingency support to U.S. forces throughout the United States European Command area of responsibility. Headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, the district, which is part of the North Atlantic Division, covers a widely dispersed geographic area from Western Europe across Eastern Europe, including Russia, down to Israel and throughout most of the African continent. Work is executed from offices in Germany, Belgium, Turkey, Romania, Italy, Spain, Kosovo, Israel, Bulgaria, and Georgia. In 2009, the district completed more than $1.2 billion in projects including $648 million in military construction projects. The bulk of this work included Army and Air Force Family Housing units, forward operating sites in Eastern Europe, and training and operations facilities. Each project supported the stationing requirements for U.S. military partners in Europe and improved the quality of life for warfighters and their families.
Nonmilitary construction projects totaled $396 million – a 26 percent increase from 2008 – including almost $200 million in upgrades to various lodging and administrative facilities, airfields, child development centers, warehouses, and utility infrastructure; more than $125 million in small- to medium-sized renovations and planning work for garrison Directorates of Public Works; and roughly $30 million for environmental surveys and services throughout Europe.
Most illustrative of the district’s work in 2009, however, was the construction placement. The district turned over 44 major facilities and 100 small- to medium-sized renovation projects, totaling about $586 million to customers this year. These projects included barracks, vehicle maintenance facilities, company operation facilities, and battalion and brigade headquarters facilities in Grafenwoehr, Germany; an Army Lodge in Chièvres Air Base, Belgium; the first C-130J aircraft hangar in Europe at Ramstein Air Base; a consolidated communications facility in Turkey; the only official border crossing station between Georgia and Russia; and miscellaneous military facilities on bases across Europe, Israel and Mali.
Other new challenges on the district’s frontiers included $8.5 million in security and law enforcement projects in Georgia, $6.3 million in humanitarian assistance projects throughout the Caucasus, Balkans and Africa, and a host of other invaluable projects throughout five countries on the African continent.
Europe District staff also provided rapid response in support of contingency operations, deploying nine percent of all government civilians to support contingency operations in the Middle East, including 11 employees to Operation Iraqi Freedom and 12 employees to Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
Also on the district’s frontier in 2009 were the continued support ...