Saturday, November 17, 2007

Engineer units in transition

Thanks to a retired Army Engineer (LTC Doug Lehmann) who volunteers his valuable time, AEA is able to maintain a list of engineer units and organizational web links on its web site. You obviously are aware of AEA's site, because you got here, from there. The list of units and organizations which have web links used to be rather large, but over the past several years it has shrunk considerably. Why? Transformation of the Army. Many units have been inactivated, reorganized, or had their numeric designations changed. Additiionally, time is at a premuim these days, to maintain a web presence. While the number of active and reserve component units which have active web sites has declined, the number of "reunion" or veteran sites has increased. That's good, because it speaks to the inseparable bonds of service we all have, as a result of being an Army Engineer, military or civilian. Doug is in the process now of updating all the present links while at the same time searching for more, and AEA plans to go live with a totally re-designed web site in early December. For now, check out the current list here.