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Ryan Leach, is a civil-affairs officer at the same Afghan base.
About-Face: Soldiers Target Stray Eyebrows in Afghanistan Michael M. Phillips 2011
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The vast majority of U.S. forces in Iraq today rarely leave their bases, except to conduct logistical runs, civil-affairs missions, or engagements with Iraqi military and government officials.
We've Won in Iraq, So Let's Leave Leif Babin 2011
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Today the U.S. Army has nine civil-affairs brigades and the Marine Corps two civil-affairs groups.
Washington Rivalry Mark Moyar 2011
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A modern-day OSS could draw together unconventional warfare, civil-affairs, paramilitary and psychological-warfare specialists from the military together with covert-action operators from our intelligence agencies and experts in anthropology, advertising, foreign cultures, and numerous other disciplines from inside and outside government.
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The American civil-affairs colonel told me he had five times more projects in Al Qaim than in any other city in Anbar.
Streetwise 2007
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The American civil-affairs colonel told me he had five times more projects in Al Qaim than in any other city in Anbar.
Streetwise 2007
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Shawn Marcotte of the 478th special-operations/civil-affairs unit.
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"Word around Washington is that they're also sending a lot of military civil-affairs personnel there to help get Afghan schools, hospitals, sewage, etc. up and working -- to find out what the locals want and then try and get it for them."
What doesn't go on in Iraq -- stays in Afghanistan: My Iraq embed, part three 2008
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"What they didn't take they destroyed," says Frank Fowley, a U.N. civil-affairs official who has worked closely with local Olympians.
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NEWSWEEK has learned that the Pentagon will send more than 1,500 special-operations soldiers to Somalia, including as many as two battalions of Green Berets, a large contingent of civil-affairs specialists and psychological-warfare teams.
Into Somalia 2008
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