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Anonymous asked:
What's the deal with the United States Army Corps of Engineers? Using the military for non-emergency civil works? Kind of getting Prussian/Klingon vibes from that.
Back when the government was “just the military and the post office” they actually managed to fit a lot of stuff under that aegis
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the other thing was that at the time, they didn’t really have a concept for “government directing the efforts of individuals” that *wasn’t* the military. - theresponseblog liked this
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Under that aegis included the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen, a not-quite-union set up by the Army during WW1 to...
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What's the deal with the United States Army Corps of Engineers? Using the military for non-emergency civil works? Kind...