In a Change of Responsibility ceremony held Feb. 5, 2019, at the Transatlantic Division headquarters in Winchester, Va., the duties of the Command Sergeant Major transferred from Command Sgt. Maj. John W. Etter Jr. to Command Sgt. Maj. Randolph Delapena. Col. Mark C. Quander, Division Commander, presides over the ceremony and charges Command Sgt. Maj. Delapena with the duties of his office.

A contractor works on a generator for the Afghan National Army in the Logar Province in Afghanistan. The maintenance is conducted as part of a services contract executed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Middle East District. Because of its long history in the region, the district have become experts at executing services contracts in countries throughout the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility.

The Middle East District’s Robert “Bob” Fox has been awarded the 2018 Defense Acquisition Workforce Individual Achievement, Flexibility in Contracting and Development Innovation Award for Facilities Engineering. Fox is shown here while on temporary duty to a project site in Kuwait.

Personnel from the U.S. Army Transatlantic Division, Transatlantic Middle East District and U.S. Army Central Command attend the Project Management "Boot Camp" course held in December in Winchester, Virginia. The course is intended to prepare project management professionals to take the PMP certification exam. The PMP certification is the most recognized form of accreditation offered in the project management career field and is known for being very difficult to earn.

The Bahrain flyover bridge connects two areas of Naval Support Activity Bahrain. The Middle East District built the bridge offsite and moved it into place to avoid prolonged closure of one of Bahrain’s busiest roads. One of the District’s major missions is to construct facilities for use by U.S. forces in the U.S. Central Command area of operations in accordance with government-to-government agreements.