<p>Does anyone know anyone who did this ? Benefits? Drawbacks?
Don’t send me to a site. Just interested in word of mouth info…Thank you.</p>
<p>It’s like being employed in any other federal agency. The benefits and drawbacks are pretty much the same in all of them. You said you didn’t want a site, but it would be easier if you just went to the Corps main site or the main federal employment site and get all your answers in one place.</p>
<p>Though the USACE is organized as a part of the Pentagon, more than 98% of its employees are civilians. The CofE oversees many of the most significant engineering project across the country. While it does have many in-house engineering functions much of the work is done by outside contractors too. </p>
<p>Many successful engineers have started their careers in the USACofE.</p>
<p>my great uncle did this- but he was a grumpy old cuss and I didn’t talk to him much
led a pretty interesting life though- he was a photographer for the corp of engineers and traveled around the world for them.</p>
<p>My father in law was in the Corps of Engineers in World War 2, helping chase Rommel across North Africa, then in Italy. His benefits and drawbacks might be a little different than those of today.</p>
<p>All I know is we work with them as independent contractors and the bureaucracy is amazing. Even on projects of “master urgeny” on the DOD list it takes forever to get things done. The person who goes to work for the USACE better have a lot of patience for red tape. (Assuming that is the focus of your question.</p>