Maj Gen Dorko Visit

For two days the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers top general in charge of Military and International Operations toured Norfolk District Base Realignment and Closure projects.

Major General Jeffrey Dorko visited the Fort Belvoir Community Hospital project as well as many of the ongoing projects at Fort Lee to get a better understanding of how the BRAC projects are tracking and to see how the teams are getting the mission accomplished.

Dorko "You sit up in the beltway at the headquarters and try to solve problems and create conditions to enable the folks out on the ground here to deliver all of the construction projects, services and facilities, and you really cant do your job unless you get out on the ground and solicit peoples ideas, get their opinion and see whats going right and make sure that is shared across the corps."




Based on what Dorko is seeing in his tour, he believes the Norfolk District has created a condition that is enabling the teams to deliver on target.

Dorko - "I think this is a shining example of things running really well."

For the entire Corps of Engineers this is an historic period. More than $45 billion worth of contract work occurred this past year, the largest amount in its history. According to Dorko the influx of work has drastically changed the Corps.

Dorko "Its a Corps of Engineers that I would be willing to bet a lot of us couldnt imagine, the agility that we have now, and we need it, given the historic scope that we face right now with the size of the program.

Like the rest of the Corps the Norfolk District is seeing its largest amount of work in its history, much of that at Fort Lee with a more than $1 billion dollar project workload.

Dorko "Whats unique about Fort Lee is the scope and scale; you cant throw a rock around here without hitting a construction site thats underway."

Even though the amount of work across the Corps is abundant, the quality of the buildings is not being sacrificed, which is clearly evident at the Fort Belvoir Community Hospital Project.

Dorko "Our soldiers deserve this and were morally obliged to deliver them the best facilities possible and I think we are doing that."

Dorko points to the Norfolk Districts Fort Lee as an example of how BRAC work should go.

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