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Article: Civil affairs sailors work to improve humanitarian effort outcomes.(Security Assistance Community)
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- DISAM Journal
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- December 1, 2008
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The Navy's budding civil affairs force will help sustain U.S. military humanitarian efforts in developing countries, the force's commander told online journalists and bloggers in an August 8, 2008 teleconference.
Many past humanitarian missions were completed with little thought to how the country would maintain the project, Navy Capt. Robert S. McKenna, commander of the Maritime Civil Affairs Group, explained. For example, he said, a school would be built without attention to who would attend the school, who would teach, or where the budget for maintenance and teaching materials would come from.
"So now," McKenna said, "instead of doing this in an ad ...