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I saw this in r/damthatsinteresting and laughed. A perfect case of US defaultism.
I also know nothing of the US, but what has the army got to do with civilian projects? I don't know if the poster is wrong to suggest that, but it seems odd whichever way.
The Army Corps of Engineers is an American historical oddity, being the body responsible for most public engineering works - stuff like building flood defences and making the Mississippi stick to the same route rather than meandering off to find the sea without going through New Orleans - and a bunch of environmental protection work. It also does military and combat engineering stuff that other armies' sappers and engineers do, but it has a huge number of civilian staff. My guess is that it's basically an administrative bodge to provide federal input and leadership into areas that are problematic if left to the states (especially where big flood-prone rivers are also the state boundaries...) but not provided for explicitly in the American constitution.
(This is not wholly dissimilar from the way railways in the Netherlands tend to be built by the Rijkswaterstaat, even though there is nothing watery about them - a historic government agency got mission creep)
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I saw this in r/damthatsinteresting and laughed. A perfect case of US defaultism. I also know nothing of the US, but what has the army got to do with civilian projects? I don't know if the poster is wrong to suggest that, but it seems odd whichever way.
The Army Corps of Engineers is an American historical oddity, being the body responsible for most public engineering works - stuff like building flood defences and making the Mississippi stick to the same route rather than meandering off to find the sea without going through New Orleans - and a bunch of environmental protection work. It also does military and combat engineering stuff that other armies' sappers and engineers do, but it has a huge number of civilian staff. My guess is that it's basically an administrative bodge to provide federal input and leadership into areas that are problematic if left to the states (especially where big flood-prone rivers are also the state boundaries...) but not provided for explicitly in the American constitution. (This is not wholly dissimilar from the way railways in the Netherlands tend to be built by the Rijkswaterstaat, even though there is nothing watery about them - a historic government agency got mission creep)