Pat Chambers, chief of the Navigation Section and assistant chief of River Operations Branch in the Operations Division at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District, has returned from a second 16-month deployment to Kabul, Afghanistan, in support of overseas contingency operations.

Chambers served as operations branch chief, and was responsible for management of services contracts valued at $875 million that provided operations and maintenance services to Afghan National Army and police bases throughout Afghanistan.

He has a bachelor of science in civil engineering from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, La., and retired as a major in the U. S. Army Reserves in 2010.
A native of Monroe, La., he and his wife, Jennifer, are the parents of three children. His parents, Merrell and Mike Chambers, live in Monroe.