COMMANDER’S MESSAGE
District teammates:
Brig. Gen. David Turner, commander, South Pacific Division, and Los Angeles District leadership toured flood-damaged areas of Fort Irwin Sept. 19.
(Photo by Brooks O. Hubbard IV)
SPD commander tours Fort Irwin flood damage
Brooks O. Hubbard IV
FORT IRWIN, Calif.—-Brig. Gen.
David Turner, commander, U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers South Pacific Division, and Los Angeles District leadership toured flood-damaged areas of Fort
Irwin Sept. 19.
The Los Angeles District sent a
team of more than 70 engineering
and technical support professionals to
the fort to assess damage and provide
recovery operations after flooding from
a monsoon-like storm covered the post
with mud and debris Aug. 25.
The storm’s strong winds and rainfall caused an estimated $43 million in
damage, to include disintegrating roads
and sidewalks and flooding a school,
barracks and offices, which displaced
Soldiers.
“We got up to three inches of rain
in about 80 minutes, you can imagine
with that amount of rain coming down
and the force of it just caused a lot of
damage here,” said Fort Irwin Garrison
Commander Col. Jonathan Braga. “It
was honestly too much for our team to
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handle and one phone call to the Corps
of Engineers got their response team up
here within a day. It wasn’t just any day,
it was right before Labor Day weekend.”
“The Corps has supported Fort
Irwin and the National Training Center
for more than 60 years, building a world
class training facility for our nation’s
warriors and their families,” said Los
Angeles District Commander Col. Kim
Colloton. “Because our District has
years of experience doing civil engineering projects, we had skill sets that were
needed to support warfighters and the
NTC and assist in getting them back on
line and ready to continue training.”
After the tour, Turner visited with
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