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Big data at sea: How the Royal Navy charts the world's oceans

Ken Hagan Gold badge

Re: I knew that

"the point of the United States Army Corps of Engineers"

I always assumed that the point was "We have to have a corps of engineers anyway, because civilian engineers refuse to work in war zones, and we need to keep them trained, so they might as well practice on civilian jobs and save Uncle Sam money.".

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