[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.