Since only about 1 percent of the United States population is currently serving in the armed forces, not everyone understands command relationships.
The Seattle Times story was wrong when they said, “The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has deployed 300 medical personnel.”
As a former Army officer, it bugs me when the wrong terminology is used. The Corps of Engineers are a bunch of contractors — they personally don’t build anything! They don’t swing any hammers and “they” don’t deploy units. Some major command, likely Northern Command which handles U.S. forces in the United States, “ordered the deployment” of the troops.
The Army Corps of Engineers is there to make the facility physically habitable and suitable as a hospital “mechanically.”
