Walsh Promoted to Major General
The commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi Valley Division, was promoted to Major General during a ceremony June 2.
Brigadier General (P) Michael J. Walsh, Commander and Division Engineer of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi Valley Division, was promoted to Major General June 2, 2010, at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. Lieutenant General Robert L. Van Antwerp, the Corps’ Commanding General and Chief of Engineers, hosted the ceremony.
The Armed Services have a long-standing tradition of celebrating the promotion of its members to the next higher rank in a formal ceremony. This ceremony is a public indication of the increased responsibilities that the service member is about to assume. The ceremony demonstrates the confidence placed in him by senior officers, by Congress and by the President of the United States in his abilities to carry out these new responsibilities. Finally, this ceremony allows the family, friends, and colleagues of the newly promoted service member the opportunity to celebrate and share in this hard-earned achievement.
Maj. Gen. Walsh arrived in Vicksburg in February 2008 to lead MVD with their management of the Corps' water resources program in the Mississippi River Valley. The boundary of the Mississippi Valley Division extends from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, includes portions of 12 states, and encompasses 370,000 square miles. The programs and activities overseen by the MVD are conducted by district offices located in St. Paul, Minn., Rock Island, Ill., St. Louis, Mo., Memphis, Tenn., Vicksburg, Miss., and New Orleans, La.
In addition, Maj. Gen. Walsh oversees the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project, the comprehensive flood control plan for the alluvial valley. He serves as President-designee of the Mississippi River Commission.
Walsh came to Vicksburg from Baghdad, Iraq, where he was Division Engineer of the Corps’ Gulf Region Division.
Maj. Gen. Walsh and his wife, Susan, have two adult sons.
