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Civil Works hydrology was all there at that time. Whether originally all hydraulics
was in that branch or not, and as things developed, some of the people to get ahead
maybe were in the structures or whether the structures had it all of the time, I'm just
not clear. However, OCE was instrumental in the establishment of a Military
Hydrology Unit. They put out a lot of studies on the application of hydrology to
military operations. I don't remember whom they reported to. Based on what
happened in Bosnia, the Army must have forgotten about hydrology.
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Was that part of the development of hydrology itself, that it was assumed to be a
subordinate part of hydraulics and hydraulic engineering, and then as it matured, it
broke out?
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I suppose so from an organizational viewpoint, from the people up front that had to
approve the organizations. To begin with, it was hydraulics. There wasn't any such
thing as hydrology. But it eventually found its own notch. The branch that had the
river hydraulics had hydrology. I think though maybe sometime to give Douma or
somebody their rating, they set up a hydraulics branch.
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Yes, because I believe there were two.
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Huh?
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It was called hydraulics and hydrology. I think there was a hydraulics branch and
a hydrology branch, but that may have been after you left.
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Yes.
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Because I think Jake Douma had the one branch, and Vern Hagen had the other.
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Yes, yes.
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And there was a question about who would be the division chief.
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But I think a Hydraulics Branch Design Unit in Structures was there when Cochran
was there.
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