[Pittsburgh District] Army Corps of Engineers Gets New Commander
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
17 July 2010
The Pittsburgh District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has
transferred leadership to a new commander.
Col. William H. Graham took over Friday for Col. Michael P. Crall in a
ceremony at the Senator John Heinz History Center.
Col. Graham, a Western Pennsylvania native, most recently spent a year
at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was the Army War
College Fellow to MIT's Security Studies Program.
He was commissioned through the University of Pittsburgh's ROTC program
in 1988 and served as a platoon leader during Operation Desert Shield
and Desert Storm.
He will be responsible for an area of approximately 26,000 miles
extending into five states, where the corps operates and maintains 23
locks and dams.