ERDC Team Member to Help Train USACE Emergency Response Cadre

Published March 9, 2012
Shown during the Hurricane Ike response, ERDC Construction Engineering Research Laboratory Electrical Engineer Steve Sweeney, right, and the Tyler County, Texas, judge.

Shown during the Hurricane Ike response, ERDC Construction Engineering Research Laboratory Electrical Engineer Steve Sweeney, right, and the Tyler County, Texas, judge.

March 9, 2012

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – ERDC Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) Electrical Engineer Steve Sweeney was recently selected to serve an expanded role as a member of the Local Government Liaison (LGL) cadre, one of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers emergency response teams in support of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Sweeney will assist in the development and execution of the annual training in Mobile, Ala., as well as assist in selecting new cadre members at the end of the training session.

Sweeney was deployed as an LGL in response to Hurricane Ike in 2008 and the 2011 Alabama storms.