TALLIL - The governor of Muthanna Province has extended his thanks to the engineers of the Gulf Region South (GRS) District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the district’s work in his province.”We would like to send our thanks and appreciation for your great works, which help Al Muthanna Province in construction and [...]

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FARAH PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Nov. 9, 2007 - Construction is under way for a $1.7 million bridge across the Farah Rud River in Tojg. The project, funded by the Farah Provincial Reconstruction Team, will employ several hundred local people for two years. The project will benefit not only the 10,000 residents of Tojg, but also people [...]

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BAGHDAD — An Army general who was hurt in a roadside bombing in Iraq this week was a former Marblehead resident.Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Dorko was the highest-ranking American officer to be hurt since the Iraq war began in March 2003. Dorko was in stable condition and was evacuated to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany; [...]

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FORWARD OPERATING BASE ORGUN-E, Afghanistan, Aug. 15, 2007 – U.S. Army engineers in Afghanistan are doing their part to restore security and the country’s economy by building roads, bridges and levees to connect Afghanistan’s people. Afghanistan’s rugged terrain and mountainous landscape isolates most of the population from the country’s major cities and industrial area. Lack [...]

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By Carmen L. Gleason
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, July 13, 2007 – It will take time and considerable resources to rebuild Iraq following more than 25 years of neglect under Saddam Hussein’s [...]

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By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, July 2, 2007 – A new children’s hospital being built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Basrah, Iraq, is the result of [...]

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By A. Al Bahrani
Special to American Forces Press Service

BASRAH, Iraq, June 27, 2007 – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region South District’s rehabilitation of the railway station here is [...]

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By Tim Kilbride
Special to American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, June 12, 2007 – The goal for Iraq’s electrical sector is to meet roughly 50 percent of demand over the summer, a U.S. [...]

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By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, June 4, 2007 – U.S. military engineers have completed nearly 300 major water and sewage projects in Baghdad and across Iraq in the past [...]

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