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About 300 soldiers from Fort Knox’s Victory Corps are being deployed to Germany and Poland to booster U.S. Army forces in Europe.

Investments? >> i would say there are so many lessons learned. it's -- we're so far from 2005. it's not just the engineering and science of the system that's around new orleans, which big, big pieces that came into play is the system is built for resiliency. i know there were national weather service had concerns about overtopping on this southern side of the system called west bank. but we're watching it closely. one of the things we've stressed is in the design of the system after katrina, the corps. went after resiliency which means the system is designed for overtopping so there's no way w...

Missouri River managers turn attention from flood to drought RANDY DOCKENDORF, Yankton Press and Dakotan April 12, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail YANKTON, S.D. (AP) — With anticipated continued drought, flooding likely won’t be an issue this year in the upper Missouri River basin, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other federal officials. Despite recent rainfall, the Yankton region remains a combination of abnormally dry and moderate drought conditions, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. A similar situation is found in much of the upper basin. Reservoir inflows in the basi...

Military to preventing juvenile salmon from being killed by turbines. president obama's 2012 budget proposes cutting the corps budget 18% compared to 2010. >> we're doing fewer new projects, using a larger proportion of our money to operate and maintain the infrastructure that we're responsible for, just like these levees that are holding back the mississippi river. >> reporter: the corps says it will probably need to ask congress for more money to pay for the work it's doing now along the mississippi. it's used to doing that. in fact, critics say its projects are too dependent on earmark spen...

>> sick to your stomach. farming is all i've ever done. >> certainly i know many of the people who own land there, and i was talking with them. they understood the difficulty of the decision that had to be made. >> reporter: the army corps now faces a class action lawsuit from farmers. >> what we have here is a situation that's of questionable moral ambiguity. how do you choose one set of homes and livelihoods over another? >> reporter: the corps says it