Engineer Memoirs _____________________________________________________________________
General Kem, Deputy Chief of Staff, Engineer (DCSENG), U.S. Army Europe, with Mr. Korte
of the West German Ministry of Defense, Dr. Fischer, Ministry of Finance, and Jorge Fuentes,
Chief of the Real Estate Division, DCSENG............................................................................................. 396
Commander-in-Chief to Commander-in-Chief meeting in Heidelberg, West Germany, in 1989 .............. 426
General Kem, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army Europe, and Major General Fursin, Chief of Staff of the
Group of Soviet Forces Germany, at a 1989 celebration of the meeting of American and Soviet
forces on the Elbe River in 1945 ............................................................................................................... 427
Major General Kem escorted Major General Fursin, Chief of Staff of the Group of Soviet Forces
Germany, on a visit to Grafenwhr in 1989 during the CINC to CINC visit............................................. 428
General Kem toured the Pineville, Kentucky, project as the Nashville District prepared to drill
tunnels ....................................................................................................................................................... 436
General Kem with leaders from the Nashville District at the Divide Cut of the Tennessee-Tombigbee
Waterway in 1990...................................................................................................................................... 445
General Kem, Deputy Chief of Engineers, inspected the chemical demilitarization facility on
Johnston Island during a visit to the Pacific in 1990 ................................................................................. 454
General Kem with members of the Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers staff............................ 468
Groundbreaking Ceremony at the new Winfield Lock .............................................................................. 478
In a ceremony at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, on 3 May 2002, Major General Richard S. Kem, USA
(Ret.), received the Gold Order of the deFleury Medal from Lieutenant General Robert B. Flowers, Chief
of Engineers and Colonel of the Army Engineer Regiment. The Gold Order of the deFleury Medal is the
most prestigious individual recognition award presented by the Army Engineer Regiment. Only one such
medal is presented each year. General Kem also is wearing the Silver Order of the deFleury Medal, which
he received in May 1989............................................................................................................................ 487
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