Doing work isn't sexy, and it doesn't make national news media, but it's what gets shit done.

And the Army Corp of Engineers has its management problems, but it also tends to be caught between "We don't believe anything will happen, so we're not giving you enough funding / control, but are giving you an unfunded mandate" and "Something happened! How did you let this happen after we trusted you to fix it?!"

In reality, they do a lot of good work.