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Volume 30, Number 3 -- July/August 1996 | US Army Corps of Engineers Pacific Ocean Division |
Capka becomes SPD Commander|
Volume 30, Number 3 -- July/August 1996 | US Army Corps of Engineers Pacific Ocean Division |
Capka becomes SPD Commander |
Tom Ushijima, director of Programs and Project Management, reminisces with Brig. Gen. Rick Capka at a July meeting in Honolulu with Brig. Gen. Bruce K. Scott, outgoing commander of SPD. |
General Capka's previous assignment was as the Assistant Chief of Staff, Engineer, for the Eighth U.S. Army, Seoul, Korea. Other major assignments with the Corps of Engineers have been as Commander and District Engineer, Baltimore Engineer District, and special assistant to the Chief of Engineers for International Activities.
Capka was assigned to POD early in his carrer. He came to Hawaii as a Captain in March 1980 and left as a Major in Spring 1984.
Brig. Gen. Scott will be assigned as the Deputy Director, Strategy, Plans and Policy Directorate, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans in Washington, D.C.