Hawaiʻi Wildfires Response Mission USACE Employee Spotlight – George Minges

George Minges, the Emergency Management chief with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville, supports the Hawai‘i Wildfires recovery mission as the Debris Action Officer at the Joint Field Office in Honolulu.


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USACE progressing on temporary school in Lahaina

The wind-driven wildfires that devastated Maui left elementary students in the historic town of Lahaina without an elementary school.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers went into action after receiving a mission assignment from the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Sept. 13 to design and oversee the installation of modular buildings for the temporary elementary school in Lahaina.


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USU Researchers Examine Ways to Promote Healthier Food Choices for Service Members

A new study from the Uniformed Services University (USU) will soon look at how best to promote healthy food choices in the military and help improve service member health and performance.

Dr. Jonathan Scott, assistant professor in the USU Department of Military and Emergency Medicine (MEM), specializes in nutrition and is currently leading a study on how choices can be made at on-base restaurants, vending operations, and convenience stores to encourage healthier food choices.

The year-long U.S. Marine Corps Non-appropriated Fund Facility Healthy Eating Pilot will utilize the Go for Green®/Fueled to Fight® labeling, originally designed by the Department of Defense to help military personnel quickly identify healthy food options, based on degree of food processing, nutrients, sugar, and fat.

The researchers will then collect information on food sales purchased with non-taxpayer dollars, and other data, to determine the effectiveness of interventions.

This collaborative effort with the Marine Corps will take place at Camp Lejeune Marine Base in N.C. Researchers hope to provide any lessons learned to other services and installations to enhance the overall military nutrition environment.

Scott says prior studies have only analyzed food purchased from tax dollar-funded sources like chow halls. However, he adds food purchased from non-appropriated fund (NAF) sources is something that has not been examined in detail before.

“At the end of the day, the non-appropriated spaces are there to make a profit,” Scott says. “They’re there to make money, they support the Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Programs on many installations.”

Scott says the study will begin a phased approach beginning with historical data.


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A Gamma-ray Pulsar Milestone Inspires Innovative Astrophysics and Applications

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in conjunction with the international Fermi Large Area Telescope Collaboration, announce the discovery of nearly 300 gamma ray pulsars in the publication of their Third Catalog of Gamma Ray Pulsars.


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Army issues InBody 770 device to measure body composition

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. - Earlier this year, the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine team completed a directed Army Comprehensive Body Composition study to determine if the Army Body Composition Program effectively measures the body fat of Soldiers who did not meet the height and weight standards.


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