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The late author Sheldon H. Harris in his book " Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American cover up " wrote that, The test program, could be part of Project AGILE or Project OCONUS which began in fall 1962 and which was funded at least through fiscal year 1963, was considered by the Chemical Corps to be “ an ambitious one .” The tests were designed to cover “ not only trials at sea, but Arctic and tropical environmental tests as well .” The tests, presumably, were conducted at what research officers designated, but did not name, “ satellite sites .” These sites were located both in the continental United States and in foreign countries.
The Corps Network began during 1985, when the nation's first 24 Corps directors banded together to secure an advocate at the federal level and a repository of information on how best to start and manage a corps.
In 1915, he began training with the Landshut Cadet Corps.
As Lee began moving to counter this, Stuart screened Longstreet's Corps and skirmished numerous times in early November against Union cavalry and infantry around Mountville, Aldie, and Upperville.
Following the decisive victory in the Battle of Moscow in January 1942, the high command began to reintroduce Rifle Corps into its most experienced formations.
In the last years of the nineteenth-and first decades of the twentieth-centuries, at the behest of local political officials and following Congressional orders, the US Army Corps began dredging the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers and the deep channels of San Francisco Bay.
Both began as brainchilds of the state government, but because of lack of funds, the construction work and costs were shifted to the federal U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and U. S. Bureau of Reclamation.
General Frossard's II Corps and Marshal Bazaine's III Corps crossed the German border on 2 August, and began to force the Prussian 40th Regiment of the 16th Infantry Division from the town of Saarbrücken with a series of direct attacks.
In May reinforcements began moving to Flanders from the south, II Corps and 17 divisions had arrived by the end of the month.
After two fine dry days 17 – 18 August, XIX and XVIII Corps began pushing closer to the Wilhelm ( third ) Line.
However, in the 1987 – 1988 academic year, the U. S. joint services began participation with three U. S. Air Force graduates ; officers from the U. S. Navy and U. S. Marine Corps followed in the next two years.
On 8 August the Anzacs began pushing north along the ridge with the British II Corps advancing from Ovillers on their left.
In 1981, using experience gained from the XV-3 and XV-15, Bell and Boeing Helicopters began developing the V-22 Osprey, a twin-turboshaft military tiltrotor aircraft for the U. S. Air Force and the U. S. Marine Corps.
Then the Nanking Defense Corps began strafing the Japanese from the top of the gate.
The preliminary phase of the Canadian Corps artillery bombardment began on 20 March 1917, with a systematic two-week bombardment of German batteries, trenches and strong points.
At exactly 5: 30 am, every artillery piece at the disposal of the Canadian Corps began firing.
In 1966, with Kỳ leading the way, Thi was sacked in a power struggle, provoking widespread civil unrest in his base in I Corps ; Quang led Buddhist protests against Kỳ and Thiệu and many units in I Corps began disobeying orders, siding with Thi and the Buddhist movement.
They began work on the Mississippi River and Tributaries Flood Control Project in 1928, and the Flood Control Act of 1936 gave the Corps the mission to provide flood protection to the entire country.
The Guardians eventually returned to Oa and began the reconstruction of the Corps, assigning Guy Gardner to Earth, John Stewart to the Mosaic World, and Hal Jordan to recruit new members.
In the early 1950s the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers began work on two flood control reservoirs in and around Yalobusha County, much to the distress of county farmers who lost thousands of acres of fertile bottom land.
He protested to the War Department that they had cast " improper reflection upon reputation or position in the Corps of Engineers " by forcing him out as a Southern officer before any hostilities began.

Corps and construction
* 1942 – Major General Eugene Reybold of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the " Development of Substitute Materials " project, better known as the Manhattan Project.
In September 1942, the Army Corps of Engineers placed the newly formed Manhattan Project under the command of General Leslie R. Groves, charging him with the construction of industrial-size plants for manufacturing plutonium and uranium.
In 1960, the Army Corps of Engineers completed construction of the Painted Rock Dam on the Gila River.
Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. ( 17 August 1896 – 13 July 1970 ) was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.
The United States Army Corps of Engineers ( USACE, also sometimes shortened to CoE ) is a U. S. federal agency under the Department of Defense and a major Army command made up of some 38, 000 civilian and military personnel, making it the world's largest public engineering, design, and construction management agency.
Corps professionals use the knowledge and skills honed on both military and civil projects to support the U. S. and local communities in the areas of real estate, contracting, mapping, construction, logistics, engineering, and management experience.
The U. S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, was separately authorized on 4 July 1838, consisted only of officers, and was used for mapping and the design and construction of federal civil works and other coastal fortifications and navigational routes.
From the beginning, many politicians wanted the Corps to contribute to both military construction and works of a civil nature.
Assigned the military construction mission on 1 December 1941 after the Quartermaster Department struggled with the expanding mission, the Corps built facilities at home and abroad to support the U. S. Army and Air Force.
The next month, an act to improve navigation on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers initiated the Corps ' permanent civil works construction mission.
* U. S. Army Engineering and Support Center ( CEHNC ) — provides engineering and technical services, program and project management, construction management, and innovative contracting initiatives, for programs that are national or broad in scope or not normally provided by other Corps of Engineers elements
* Marine Design Center ( CEMDC ) — provides total project management including planning, engineering, and shipbuilding contract management in support of Corps, Army, and national water resource projects in peacetime, and augments the military construction capacity in time of national emergency or mobilization
The Corps evaluates permit applications for essentially all construction activities that occur in the Nation's waters, including wetlands.
The 1977 epic war film A Bridge Too Far, depicting the events of Operation Market Garden in September 1944, has a lengthy scene showing the construction of a Bailey bridge at Son in the Netherlands by units of both the American 101st Airborne Division and the British XXX Corps.
Between 1835 and late 1839, Terre Haute served as the headquarters for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers under Major Cornelius A. Ogden during the construction of the National Road.
In the 1890s the construction of a system of locks and dams on the Black Warrior River by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers opened up an inexpensive link to the Gulf seaport of Mobile, stimulating especially the mining and metallurgical industries of the region.
A small boat harbor is under construction through 2005 by the Corps of Engineers.
Incorporation efforts in the late 1990s were largely driven by the need for residents to have a stronger voice against the prospective construction of an international airport at the nearby decommissioned Marine Corps Air Station El Toro.
The Greenprints Project calls for the construction of trails along the city's natural areas like Little River, Noonday Creek and U. S. Army Corps of Engineers ' property and in its core areas.
The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers began surveying for the construction of Barkley Dam.
One of 36 families in Montz whose houses were appropriated by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1973 for construction of a new levee.
A new town of Fort Peck, located about 2 miles north of the original, was built in 1934 to house Army Corps of Engineers employees involved in the construction of the Fort Peck Dam.
The Army Corps of Engineers started construction of the Harlan County Dam on August 1, 1946, and completed work in November 1952.

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