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==Trivia==

*The logo of the Corps, the Gold Castle, was started in 1839 on an informal basis by cadets at [[USMA|West Point]]. Beginning in 1841, many wore personal insignia of this type on thetheir uniforms as they became commissioned officers in the U.S. Army. In 1902, the castle was formally adopted by the Army as the insignia of the Corps of Engineers. It was once changed to silver from gold from 1894 to 1921. [http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/history/vignettes/Vignette_90.htm]

*A current tradition was established with the "[[Gold Castles]]" pins of General [[Douglas MacArthur]], who served in the Corps early in his career, and had given them to his Chief Engineer, General [[Leif J. Sverdrup]] in 1945. On [[May 2]], [[1975]], upon the 200th anniversary of the Corps, retired General Sverdrup, who had [[civil engineer|civil engineering]] projects including the landmark 17 mile-long [[Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel]] to his credit, presented the Gold Castles to then-Chief of Engineers Lieutenant General [[William C. Gribble, Jr.]], who had also served under General MacArthur in the Pacific. General Gribble then announced a tradition of passing the insignia along to future Chiefs of Engineers, and it has been done so since. [http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/history/vignettes/Vignette_89.htm]