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Michael Timm Receives Meritorious Civilian Service Medal

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Walla Walla District

March 3, 2022 | 2:06

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District, presented a Meritorious Civilian Service Medal to Michael Timm on Wednesday, Nov. 10. Mr. Michael Timm exhibited exceptional competence and courage in the performance of his duties which directly improved the performance of Department of Defense employees during the retrograde and subsequent withdrawal of forces out of Afghanistan from June-August 2021. Serving as a Mechanical Engineer assigned to the US Corps of Engineers Expeditionary Workforce, Mike was without a doubt, one of the main reasons DoD forces were able to retrograde and withdraw from Kabul, Afghanistan without further loss of life or injury. Mr. Timm was not afraid to take on additional tasks to improve life support and ensure essential services remained viable for the last DoD facilities within Afghanistan to the very end. After having served in Bagram, then the Resolute Support Headquarters Compound, and finally Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA), Mike used his expertise to support DoD efforts in numerous ways as a mechanical engineer – he maintained prime power, water, and wastewater facilities and conducted field expedient engineer techniques to restore essential ground vehicles to support the withdrawal of forces and personnel from the country.

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