Civil Affairs. It's a Special Operations MOS that primarily is involved in the provincial reconstruction teams. They do everything that's involved in rebuilding the civil infrastructure of a country, forming the police, judiciary, setting up social services and so forth. Pretty interesting job.
I went back and forth between CA, Psyops and MI for a long time. I figure it would give me the ability to do the most needed work. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 12:12 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Looks like the military is working on a > fall-back plan in Iraq > > CA? > > Heald, Timothy J wrote: > > If/When I go back in I'm going CA. I figure they could use an > > infantryman's perspective :) > > > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Russel Madere [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 11:28 AM > >> To: CF-Community > >> Subject: Re: Looks like the military is working on a > fall-back plan > >> in Iraq > >> > >> It is even worse than that. The people of this nation, > regardless of > >> political affiliation have adopted the attitude that > history does not > >> apply any more or they are too smart to allow the problems of the > >> past to happen. Guess what folks? > >> It does and it did! > >> > >> I'm an old Cold Warrior. I expected to fight my war across the > >> plains of central europe. I also expected to die > grusomely within 30 > >> minutes of contact of the enemy. The lessons that would > apply then > >> were from WWII, superior firepower and the ability to deliver it > >> would win the war. > >> > >> The military leaders of today are also Cold Warriors. Few of them > >> served in the jungles of South East Asia. They lacked the > >> perspective to properly apply the lessons of Viet Nam. > >> Now they are learning. We are in an insurgency. Superior > firepwoer > >> is not the naswer, proper, unambiguous application of the > firepower > >> is the answer. > >> > >> This nation also never learned a lesson from the War Between the > >> States, Civil Affairs units are needed. Engineers and MPs aren't > >> enough. We need CA people on the ground getting the local > populace > >> into the fight against the insurgents. > >> > >> > >>> I swear it's like these people didn't take any history > classes, like > >>> most of them weren't already in gov't service when Vietnam > >>> > >> was ending. > >> > >>> Don't they remember that this is basically what we did > then. They > >>> forget about when the Embassy fell? The NVA armor > rolling over the > >>> corpses of the people we promised to protect? > >>> > >>> Makes me sick. > >>> > >>> > >> > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:229936 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
