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  • April

    Man watching bulldozer

    Quality of life projects transforming Wetzel Housing Area in Baumholder

    The Army is investing more than $700 million in projects at the Wetzel Housing Area as part of its commitment to quality of life for families stationed overseas.
  • Work begins on newest USAG Wiesbaden school on Clay Kaserne

    Work begins on newest USAG Wiesbaden school on Clay Kaserne

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Europe District, in close collaboration with the Department of Defense Education Activity, the garrison and local German partners, is managing construction of a state-of-the-art school that will serve nearly 300 students.

  • September

    ribbon cutting ceremony at a school

    Newest DoDEA school brings the future of education to children overseas in Brussels

    With a parade of students from more than 30 nations, remarks from senior military and education officials, a ribbon cutting and a blast of confetti the Department of Defense Education Activity celebrated its newest 21st century school – the Brussels Unit School.

  • August

    line of people standing in front of sign

    Army Engineers in Türkiye support NATO’s southern flank and reinforce regional security

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers team based here oversaw construction of the of the new facility, working in close partnership with the Turkish base team and the U.S. Air Force’s 39th Air Base Wing.

  • July

    U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden Commander Col. David Mayfield embraces Denise Williams, daughter of the late Col. Gail Halvorsen, following a ceremony dedicating and naming USAG Wiesbaden’s new air traffic control tower in her father’s honor June 15, 2024. Halvorsen flew missions from the airfield on the Clay Kaserne portion of U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden during the Berlin Airlift and earned the nickname the “Candy Bomber” for delivering candy to children in West Berlin. (U.S. Army photo by Chris Gardner)

    Berlin Airlift ‘Candy Bomber’ legacy lives on in new Air Traffic Control Tower named in his memory

    Members of the late Col. Gail S. Halvorsen’s family, Army leaders, project partners and others with direct ties to the Berlin Airlift all gathered for a dedication ceremony that honored his legacy and formally dedicated the recently completed air traffic control tower on the Clay Kaserne portion of U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden in his name.

  • January

    Curious Gabonese school children look on as U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Europe District Project Engineer Capt. Ben Ketchum conducts a final inspection of drainage improvements at the Mabanda Primary School in Gabon with a contractor February 23, 2023. Ketchum supports humanitarian assistance projects like this in several countries in Europe and Africa as an Army engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Europe District. (U.S. Navy photo by Cmdr. Lisa C. Berg)

    Becoming an Army Engineer to continue a life of service all over the world

    As an Army Engineer, Capt. Ben Ketchum has had the opportunity to positively impact communities all over the world, including in several countries in Eastern Europe and throughout Africa in his current assignment with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Europe District.

  • October

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Europe District Department of Defense Education Activity Program Manager Steve Ross speaks on the significance of the new Spangdahlem Elementary School being built during a groundbreaking ceremony for the new school on Spangdahlem Air Base October 11, 2023. He was joined there by representatives from the Department of Defense Education Activity, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, German construction partners and other members of the Spangdahlem Air Base community to celebrate the project with ceremonial groundbreaking. (U.S. Army photo by Chris Gardner)

    Partners celebrate construction of new Spangdahlem Elementary School in Germany

    With cranes and crews working away in the background, partners joined Wednesday for a ceremonial groundbreaking for the new Spangdahlem Elementary School being built at Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany.

  • September

    guys cutting a ribbon

    Romanian and U.S. officials in Campia Turzii celebrate new facilities at Air Base 71, part of more than $100 million in U.S. investments in the Romanian base

    CAMPIA TURZII, Romania – Romanian and U.S. officials joined together at Air Base 71 today to celebrate the completion of three new facilities intended to increase the capacity of the Romanian Air Force base here to host operations in support of regional security. The three projects are part of a larger, more than $100 million construction program at the base funded through the United States’ European Deterrence Initiative.

  • August

    Bavarian State Construction Department Chief Daniel Oden; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Europe District Commander Col. Dan Kent; 7th Army Training Command Commanding General Brig. Gen. Steven Carpenter; Bavarian State Minister of the Interior Joachim Herrmann; U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria Garrison Commander Kevin Poole, Grafenwoehr Mayor Edgar Knobloch and U.S. Army Garrison Bavaria Director of Public Works John Sturtz ceremonially break ground for the Operational Readiness Training Complex at Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany August 4, 2023. The groundbreaking celebrated the first major steps in construction for the ORTC project which will be built over several years and include all the facilities needed for an entire brigade set of troops and equipment to train and operate on a rotational basis. (U.S. Army photo by Alfredo Barraza)

    Transformative project at Graf breaks ground, first step in dozens of new buildings for rotational troops

    German and U.S. Army leaders marked the formal start of construction for a $1.3 billion project here intended to include nearly 50 buildings and house more than 5,000 Soldiers. The first Operational Readiness Training Complex will be built over about 10 years and will include all the facilities needed for an entire brigade set of troops and equipment to train and operate on a rotational basis.

  • January

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Europe District Chief of Contracting Chris Tew discusses projects with Maj. Marcus Stringer, Maj. Thomas Bookout and Master Sgt. Aaron Kopecky at the Europe District offices in Wiesbaden, Germany January 10, 2023. Stringer, Bookout and Kopecky are all contracting professionals in Europe District’s Contracting Division, providing contracting support to a wide range of projects throughout Europe and Africa. (U.S. Army photo by Chris Gardner)

    Contracting Soldiers play key role in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers missions overseas

    WIESBADEN, Germany -- “I deployed to Iraq in 2007, and when I got there everything was just ‘magically’ there. I had food. I had somewhere to sleep. I kind of wondered how did all that get there?” Contracting Specialist Master Sgt. Eulid Temblador said. “Well, it got there through contracts.” Temblador deployed as a radio transmission operator with an infantry brigade then, but has since reclassified to the 51C military occupational specialty, or MOS, an Army career field where Soldiers focus on providing that contracting piece that’s so critical to everything the Army does. He is now one of four Soldiers serving in the Contracting Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Europe District. While noncommissioned officers serving as contracting professionals are 51C’s and officers serving as contracting professionals are 51A’s, they are often all conversationally referred to as 51C’s.

  • December

    American instructors Mike Gerhard from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Europe District; Alonzo Ellis from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District and Dan Hunt from the U.S. Army Engineer School discuss proposed base camp design plans with engineers from the Ghana Armed Forces October 18, 2022, as part of a base camp design training course in Accra, Ghana.

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers trains Ghanaian military partners on base camp design

    When the call comes to support United Nations peacekeeping operations, the Ghana Armed Forces regularly answer that call and are expected to set up their operations at times with little to no existing base camp infrastructure. They could be operating from the corner of an airport, a commandeered sports field or a tract of land in an undeveloped part of a jungle or desert scape – wherever peace needs reinforced. Efficiently and logically developing base camps for deployed forces is key to any mission’s success, and that is why experts from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers were recently in Ghana teaching courses in base camp design to Ghana Armed Forces combat engineers and planners in the Ghanaian capital of Accra.

  • April

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Europe District Project Engineer Israel Miller and Area Engineer August Carrillo discuss ongoing construction projects in Poland by recently renovated administrative facility on the Polish Army base in Poznan, Poland March 16, 2022. Europe District’s Northern Europe Area Office on the base in Poland manages construction projects at several Polish military sites across the country. (U.S. Army photo by Chris Gardner)

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers construction in Poland reassures allies and supports regional security

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Europe District’s Northern Europe Area Office in Poznan, Poland has been the focal point for the Corps of Engineers’ more than $350 million construction mission in Poznan and many other sites throughout Poland over the past several years. These projects are already benefiting both U.S. forces stationed in Poland on a rotational basis as well as the Polish hosts operating the bases.

  • March

    After serving 20 years in the Army, Dean Blegen served nearly 20 more with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Europe District working in Community Mail Room 410 at the Amelia Earhart Center in Weisbaden, Germany. During that time, he touched the lives of thousands of people who have been a part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Europe District for the last two decades as well as the additional U.S. agencies that call the AEC home. These deep connections with people, co-workers and friends made it even more shocking when earlier this year when he suddenly fell critically ill in late February and subsequently passed away on March 3. (Courtesy Photo)

    Europe District team mourns the loss of the 'Mayor of the Amelia Earhart Center'

    Dean Blegen had been a fixture of Community Mail Room 410, or CMR, 410 in the Amelia Earhart Center in Wiesbaden since it was stood up nearly 20 years ago and made deep connections with many people in that time. These deep connections with people, co-workers and friends made it even more shocking when earlier this year when he suddenly fell critically ill in late February and subsequently passed in early March.
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Europe District Deputy Commander Lt. Col. Daniel J. Fox is pinned by his family during his promotion ceremony in Wiesbaden, Germany Feb. 26, 2021. (U.S. Army photo by Alfredo Barraza)

    New deputy commander excited to support Europe District's array of missions

    Surrounded by his wife and five children in person, and family and friends joining virtually from around the world, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Europe District’s Deputy Commander Maj. Daniel J. Fox was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel during a promotion ceremony at Wiesbaden, Germany Feb. 26, 2021
  • A group of people stand with shovels, tossing dirt.

    Partners gather to celebrate groundbreaking of 21st-century high school at Ramstein Air Base

    A diverse group gathered at Ramstein Air Base in a gym to break ground on a new 21st-century