Lieutenant Colonel Thomas C. Chapman

As the 52st Philadelphia District Engineer, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas C. Chapman commands a 500-person engineering organization that provides national, economic and environmental security in the heart of the Northeast Corridor. His responsibilities include dredging waterways for navigation, protecting communities from flooding and coastal storms, responding to natural and declared disasters, regulating construction in the nation's waters and wetlands, remediating environmental hazards, restoring ecosystems, building facilities for the Army and Air Force, and providing engineering, contracting and project management services for other government agencies upon request.

Established in 1866, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Philadelphia District encompasses the 13,000-square-mile Delaware River Basin and the Atlantic coast from New Jersey's Manasquan Inlet to the Delaware-Maryland line. Within its boundaries are more than eight million people in eastern Pennsylvania, western and southern New Jersey, most of Delaware, New York's Catskills region and part of northeastern Maryland. It also includes two state capitals (Trenton, N.J., and Dover, Del.) and the Delaware River Ports complex from Philadelphia and Camden (N.J.) to Wilmington (Del.).

LTC Chapman came to Philadelphia from Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, where he served both as Assistant Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center and Fort Leonard Wood and as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army Engineer School.

Commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers in 1984, his initial assignments at Fort Knox, Kentucky were with the 522nd Engineer Company, 194th Armor Brigade and the 19th Engineer Battalion as a Platoon Leader, Company Executive Officer, and Battalion Assistant S3.  Follow-on assignments included Battalion S4 and Company Commander with the 326th Engineer Battalion, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) at Fort Campbell, Kentucky and during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.  He was a Project Manager in the Chicago District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.  He served as the Staff Engineer, Area 1, 19th Theater Army Area Command, Camp Red Cloud, Korea.

LTC Chapman holds a bachelor of science in civil engineering from the United States Military Academy and a master of science in civil engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.  He is a graduate of Ranger, Airborne, and Air Assault training, the Engineer Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, and the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.  He is a registered professional engineer in Virginia.

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