Corps of Engineers recognizes St. Paul, Minn., resident

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, selected St. Paul, Minn., resident Aaron Buesing as one of its four Civil Servants of the Year.  

The St. Paul District presents this award annually to the top three or four of its 650 employees. Buesing, who's worked for the Corps of Engineers for more than 21 years, is a hydraulic engineer at the district’s headquarters in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Buesing received this award in recognition of his outstanding leadership abilities, technical competence and professional commitment.  “Aaron’s [Buesing’s] technical skills and personal drive to do a professional job are second to none,” said his supervisor Kari Hauck. “He works tirelessly to ensure that his projects represent the best of our capability.”

Buesing will receive his award at the 38th Annual Minnesota Federal Civil Servant of the Year Awards in
St. Paul, Minn., at the Crown Plaza Hotel May 8.

The nearly 650 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, employees working at more than 40 sites in five upper-Midwest states serve the American public in the areas of environmental enhancement, navigation, flood damage reduction, water and wetlands regulation, recreation sites and disaster response. Through the Corps’ Fiscal Year 2014 $100 million budget, nearly 1,600 non-Corps jobs were added to the regional economy as well as $155 million to the national economy. For more information, see www.mvp.usace.army.mil.

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