[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 157 (Monday, October 2, 2017)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1303]
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              IN TRIBUTE TO COLONEL CHRISTOPHER J. BARRON

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                           HON. JOE COURTNEY

                             of connecticut

                    in the house of representatives

                        Monday, October 2, 2017

  Mr. COURTNEY. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to recognize Colonel 
Christopher J. Barron upon his retirement from the Army Corps of 
Engineers.
  For 27 years, Colonel Barron had dedicated himself to serving our 
nation with the Army Corps of Engineers. Colonel Barron, a native of 
Goshen, New York, was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Corps 
of Engineers in 1991. His overseas deployments include combat, 
reconstruction, and peacekeeping missions in Somalia, Haiti, Macedonia, 
Bosnia, and Iraq. In his last assignment, Colonel Barron served as 
District Commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in New England 
from July 31, 2014 to July 19, 2017. Prior to this post, Colonel Barron 
served as the U.S. Army War College's Visiting Defense Fellow at 
Queen's University in Ontario, Canada.
  While serving as District Commander of the New England District, 
Colonel Barron had many accomplishments including dredging projects, 
navigation improvement, flood risk management, and environmental 
restoration. It was an honor to work with him on a wide array of 
dredging projects in my district and across the Connecticut coastline, 
and I will certainly miss his knowledge of and passion for water 
resource programs in our area. He was always accessible and open to 
input from my office which I greatly appreciated.
  Please join me in congratulating my friend, Colonel Barron, on an 
impressive career of service with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and 
wishing him a wonderful retirement.

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