Vernon K.
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Sounds like one of those thrills you could bypass though.
I had a lot of interesting things happen when I was young.
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Engineering Center
Q ..
Did the Corps initiate any training projects for hydrologists while you were at Garrison?
Was there any kind of training or was it just what you learn on the job and from your
supervisor?
I just don't remember. I don't remember any courses really being available other than
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what you learn from your on-the-job training at that time when I was in Garrison. It
wasn't until really the Chief's office had a few training courses before HEC was put into
operation. But up until HEC was put into operation, there really wasn`t any good training
program for hydrology. There was no systematic training.
For example, a division office might get some of their hydrology people together in kind
of an ad hoc basis and give them some advice and guidance. But there wasn't really any
formal programs going on, certain courses being taught and you knew what the content
of that course was going to be. If there was any training done it would be on a
know basis. Something new would come out and so one person maybe in the division
would figure out what it was all about and then he would get the rest of them together and
tell them about it.
It wasn't something like they have now where annually they decide on which training
programs they're going to conduct and they send that list out and they find out what the
interest is in it. If there is not enough interest they cancel some of the courses and add
some others. So it's pretty formalized nowadays. They have--I don't know what the hell
they call them--each course had it's own advocate or whatever. He was responsible for
making sure that all the right stuff was being taught in the course and that it had gone on
a training list when it was needed and so forth.
Then, after each course the HEC publishes one of these big folders like this. There are
all different courses that HEC teaches. As they learn a little bit more, the course changes
a little bit.
Q ..
But you key a lot of that change to the establishment of the Hydrologic Engineering
Center?
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