{"id":736,"date":"2005-09-06T22:11:12","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T01:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=736"},"modified":"2005-09-06T22:12:32","modified_gmt":"2005-09-07T01:12:32","slug":"the-army-corps-of-civil-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"The Army Corps of (Civil) Engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">M<\/span>ind the title: I&#8217;m a bit confused about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usace.army.mil\/\">Army Corps of Engineers<\/a>. Their Mission:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usace.army.mil\/who.html#Mission\">&quot;to provide quality, responsive engineering services to the nation&quot;<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, this is a part of the military that is in charge of the civil works that  are to protect the US homeland of extreme weather conditions. Why <em>military<\/em>, I wonder? For example, if a disaster strikes Holland (god forbid), the Dutch military will conduct &#8216;life saving missions&#8217;, but they are generally lead (and managed) by specialists and civil engineers from the Department of Interior and Traffic and Water Management.\n<\/p>\n<p>I guess, no matter how you look at the difference in approach, in both cases, it will be still the <em>government<\/em> that&#8217;s in charge at the end. It&#8217;s still confusing, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mind the title: I&#8217;m a bit confused about the Army Corps of Engineers. Their Mission: &quot;to provide quality, responsive engineering services to the nation&quot;. Clearly, this is a part of the military that is in charge of the civil works &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=736\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}