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Transcript: CIVIL AFFAIRS SAILORS WORK TO IMPROVE HUMANITARIAN EFFORT OUTCOMES
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- Regulatory Intelligence Data
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- August 12, 2008
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INDSTRY GROUP 91
Regulatory Intelligence Data
08-12-2008
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2008 - 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 Aug. 8
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, ...