Lieutenant Colonel Thomas J. Tickner

As the 55th Philadelphia District Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Tom Tickner 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.).

Lieutenant Colonel Thomas J. Tickner served most recently with Human Resource Command, Alexandria, VA as an Engineer Branch Assignment Officer. 

Lieutenant Colonel Tickner was commissioned a second lieutenant 1989. He began his military career as a Platoon Leader and Task Force Engineer in the 326th Engineer Battalion 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Kentucky.  He then commanded Alpha Company, 84th Engineer Battalion (Combat Heavy), Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.  While with the 84th, he conducted numerous deployments throughout the Asian-Pacific theater in support of USARPAC’s Expanded Relations Program.

After earning his Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering (Construction Management), he served as a Project Engineer, Project Manager, and Deputy Commander for the Sacramento Corps’ of Engineer District.  He subsequently served as the Operations Officer and Executive Officer for the 52d Engineer Battalion (Combat Heavy), Fort Carson, Colorado where he deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.  

He is a graduate from The Pennsylvania State University in 1990 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering.  He holds a Masters Degree in Civil Engineering from University of Colorado at Boulder (1999).  He is a graduate of the Engineer Officer’s Basic and Advance Courses, the US Army Command and General Staff College, and the Airborne, Air Assault, and Ranger Courses.

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