U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center
In late March of 2009 the 817th Engineer Company of the North Dakota Army National Guard used HESCO barriers instead of sandbags to hold back a flood near Fargo North Dakota. "I saw them all the time in Iraq," Karsky said, 'but I never ever thought we'd be using them to fight a flood. I thought we'd be over here throwing sandbags." 1SG Curtis W. Kasman said "the HESCO barriers in Iraq were much larger, sometimes as high as 20 feet, compared to the three-feet-tall versions being used in Fargo this week." SPC Jordan J. Nygaard "was amazed by the rapid-fire pace of the dike work going on around him." Source: North Dakota National Guard News release.| HM Number | HM1KZG |
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| Placed By | U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center |
| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Monday, June 8th, 2015 at 6:01am PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 18T E 316268 N 4453012 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 40.20740000, -77.15890000 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 40° 12.444', W 77° 9.534' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 40° 12' 26.64" N, 77° 9' 32.04" W |
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| Area Code(s) | 717 |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near Army Heritage Trail, Carlisle PA 17013, US |
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