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The Role of Air Force Civil Engineers in Counterinsurgency Operations
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Air & Space Power Journal
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July 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright U.S. Superintendent of Documents Summer 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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WHAT IS THE role of the Air Force's general-purpose forces in support of counter-insurgency (COIN) operations? Facilitators of the 2007 Air Force Symposium on Counterinsurgency posed that question at Maxwell AFB, Alabama, in April 2007. A presentation by David Ochmanek of the RAND Corporation analyzed areas of the world where insurgencies were present-or were developing-and in which the United States might determine that its national interests required US military involvement.1 His analysis concluded that the Air Force does not have sufficient Rapid Engineers Déployable Heavy Operations Repair Squadron, Engineers (RED HORSE) and Prime Base Engineer Emergency Force (Prime BEEF) squadrons to ...
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