1 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:04,040 Hey team . Lieutenant General scott 2 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:06,373 Spellman here . 55th Chief of Engineers . 3 00:00:06,373 --> 00:00:08,596 I'm here in the Middle East district in 4 00:00:08,596 --> 00:00:10,540 kuwait with the great Colonel flip 5 00:00:10,540 --> 00:00:12,707 Seacrest our district commander and Mr 6 00:00:12,707 --> 00:00:15,890 Tom waters are DPM flip you We say . 7 00:00:15,890 --> 00:00:18,310 All of our 44 districts are unique . 8 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:20,440 Yours is extremely unique . Can you 9 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:22,607 give the team just a sense of the type 10 00:00:22,607 --> 00:00:24,607 of project you're doing across this 11 00:00:24,607 --> 00:00:26,829 area of responsibility and where you're 12 00:00:26,829 --> 00:00:28,940 doing them ? Yes sir . Thank you very 13 00:00:28,940 --> 00:00:28,140 much for this opportunity . Again I'm 14 00:00:28,140 --> 00:00:30,029 the commander for the Middle East 15 00:00:30,029 --> 00:00:31,862 District . U . S . Army Corps of 16 00:00:31,862 --> 00:00:33,862 Engineers . We have projects across 17 00:00:33,862 --> 00:00:35,918 nine countries in the Middle East um 18 00:00:35,918 --> 00:00:38,190 for about a $4 billion current 19 00:00:38,190 --> 00:00:40,360 construction program and about another 20 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:44,350 $2.9 billion in potential future work . 21 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:46,862 Very diverse program . Very unique . We 22 00:00:46,862 --> 00:00:48,807 do a thing called foreign military 23 00:00:48,807 --> 00:00:50,973 sales . So we do a lot of construction 24 00:00:50,973 --> 00:00:53,196 for our host partner nations . And it's 25 00:00:53,196 --> 00:00:54,918 every everywhere from building 26 00:00:54,918 --> 00:00:57,210 infrastructure for F fifteen's apaches 27 00:00:57,420 --> 00:01:00,280 M one Abrams tanks , um Patriot missile 28 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:02,058 systems that we actually get to 29 00:01:02,058 --> 00:01:04,169 construct that infrastructure for our 30 00:01:04,169 --> 00:01:06,280 host nations and it's everywhere from 31 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:08,280 here in kuwait we do patriot work . 32 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:10,502 We're getting ready to knock kick off F 33 00:01:10,502 --> 00:01:14,150 15 or excuse me , a F 18 hornet um 34 00:01:14,540 --> 00:01:16,762 construction program . And then we also 35 00:01:16,762 --> 00:01:18,596 do a lot of work for our U . S . 36 00:01:18,596 --> 00:01:20,540 Military . If it's through the Air 37 00:01:20,540 --> 00:01:22,262 Force we do runway repairs and 38 00:01:22,262 --> 00:01:24,429 constructions , aprons , constructions 39 00:01:24,429 --> 00:01:27,850 on airfields , building projects to D 40 00:01:27,850 --> 00:01:30,620 facts . We do uh just a wide range of 41 00:01:30,630 --> 00:01:32,908 work here across the Middle East for U . 42 00:01:32,908 --> 00:01:34,852 S . Forces and for our host nation 43 00:01:34,852 --> 00:01:37,074 militaries . Hey flip . And your team's 44 00:01:37,074 --> 00:01:39,297 just knocking out of the park . Hey tom 45 00:01:39,297 --> 00:01:41,241 what did we miss ? That's a pretty 46 00:01:41,241 --> 00:01:41,240 diverse workload . He didn't miss much . 47 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:44,050 But what we do here sir is uh we don't 48 00:01:44,050 --> 00:01:46,106 just support construction projects , 49 00:01:46,106 --> 00:01:48,328 right ? We're we're supporting regional 50 00:01:48,328 --> 00:01:50,439 security , we're supporting stability 51 00:01:50,439 --> 00:01:52,606 operations , interoperability with our 52 00:01:52,606 --> 00:01:54,272 host nation partners and most 53 00:01:54,272 --> 00:01:55,994 importantly , you know , we're 54 00:01:55,994 --> 00:01:58,217 supporting us service components across 55 00:01:58,217 --> 00:02:00,530 the centcom kor and uh you know , we 56 00:02:00,530 --> 00:02:02,780 build projects one at a time , but 57 00:02:02,780 --> 00:02:05,002 we're also building projects out of the 58 00:02:05,002 --> 00:02:07,590 desert . 400 facilities at a time , 70 59 00:02:07,590 --> 00:02:09,812 facilities at a time when you talk F 15 60 00:02:09,812 --> 00:02:13,410 were standing up F 15 bed down out of 61 00:02:13,410 --> 00:02:15,354 the desert and cutter . You know , 62 00:02:15,354 --> 00:02:17,530 we're we're building ports in Saudi 63 00:02:17,530 --> 00:02:21,150 Arabia patriot , uh 64 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:23,470 missile defense across the ST komodo 65 00:02:23,470 --> 00:02:25,526 are So we're looking for people that 66 00:02:25,526 --> 00:02:27,780 have really experience across all 67 00:02:27,780 --> 00:02:29,947 spectrums . Yeah , there's no coat and 68 00:02:29,947 --> 00:02:32,169 ties in this district . Right . It is , 69 00:02:32,169 --> 00:02:34,391 it is muddy boots all the time . And so 70 00:02:34,391 --> 00:02:34,210 everybody is in a war for talent 71 00:02:34,220 --> 00:02:36,276 looking at your program for the next 72 00:02:36,276 --> 00:02:38,387 couple of years . What are we looking 73 00:02:38,387 --> 00:02:38,220 for ? What type of talent do we want to 74 00:02:38,220 --> 00:02:40,276 bring here to this this district sir 75 00:02:40,276 --> 00:02:42,770 sir . We need young people , we need 76 00:02:42,770 --> 00:02:44,770 people that are hungry . You know , 77 00:02:44,770 --> 00:02:46,881 their careers are gonna take off here 78 00:02:46,881 --> 00:02:48,992 because they're gonna be doing things 79 00:02:48,992 --> 00:02:51,103 that that might take them 10 years to 80 00:02:51,103 --> 00:02:53,214 learn back in stateside , right ? And 81 00:02:53,214 --> 00:02:53,150 we're looking for people that , you 82 00:02:53,150 --> 00:02:55,317 know , come with many years experience 83 00:02:55,317 --> 00:02:57,539 to train those young folks . So we need 84 00:02:57,539 --> 00:02:59,872 all kinds of people across the spectrum . 85 00:02:59,872 --> 00:02:59,500 Yeah . Hey team . So I'll just leave 86 00:02:59,500 --> 00:03:01,611 you with this if you're looking for a 87 00:03:01,611 --> 00:03:03,833 unique opportunity and the challenge in 88 00:03:03,833 --> 00:03:05,944 a dynamic environment , this is where 89 00:03:05,944 --> 00:03:07,944 you want to come to the Middle East 90 00:03:07,944 --> 00:03:09,833 district . So flip and tom you're 91 00:03:09,833 --> 00:03:09,760 certainly building strong out here in 92 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:11,927 the sunken meadow are just want to say 93 00:03:11,927 --> 00:03:14,149 thanks for all you do . Thanks building 94 00:03:14,149 --> 00:03:13,780 strong .