Members of the Rangers led the First Continental Army during America’s Revolutionary War, and their “No man left behind” motto became a central fixture of U.S. military protocol. The slogan communicated the need to make sure that EVERYONE was taken care of. But do we have the same policy when it comes to levees? At the Federal level, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has worked over the past decades to adopt a consistent set of standards for how to build levees, operate and maintain levees, and flood flight levees.  But those standards only apply to Federal levees – those that are Federally authorized or have chosen to enter the P.L 84-99 program. What about the rest of the levees – the tens of thousands of miles of levees not in the Federal program?