United States Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command - Civil Affairs

Civil Affairs

The primary mission of Civil Affairs is to conduct civil-military operations. Civil Affairs Soldiers are responsible for executing 5 core CA tasks. These include Civil Information Management, Foreign Humanitarian Assistance, Nation Assistance, Population Resource Control and Support to Civil Administration. Some sub tasks to these core tasks include identifying non-governmental and international organizations operating in the battlespace, handling refugees, civilians on the battlefield, and determining protected targets such as schools, churches/temples/mosques, hospitals, etc.

Civil Affairs units are the field commander's link to the civil authorities in that commander's area of operations. The Soldiers make up teams which interface and provide expertise to the host nation government. USACAPOC(A)'s civil affairs Soldiers are particularly suited for this mission since they are Army Reserve Soldiers with civilian occupations such as law enforcement, engineering, medicine, law, banking, public administration, etc.

Civil Affairs Soldiers have been integral to U.S. peacekeeping operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa, Bosnia and Kosovo, among others. Tactical Civil Affairs teams go out and meet with local officials, conduct assessments and determine the need for critical infrastructure projects such as roads, schools, power plants, clinics, sewer lines, etc., and check up on the status of the project after construction by a local company has begun.

Civil Affairs units
Unit Unit Insignia Commander Headquarters Subordinate Units
350th Civil Affairs Command Brig. Gen. Mark McQueen Pensacola, Florida
  • 321st CA Bde. – San Antonio, TX
    • 413th CA Bn. – Lubbock, TX
    • 451st CA Bn. – Pasadena, TX
    • 486th CA Bn. – Tulsa, OK
    • 490th CA Bn. – Grand Prairie, TX
    • 402nd CA Bn. – Ft. Buchanan, Puerto Rico
    • 478th CA Bn. (ABN) – Perrine, FL
    • 410th CA Bn. - El Paso, TX
351st Civil Affairs Command Brig. Gen. Stephen K. Curda Mountain View, California
  • 364th CA Bde. – Portland, OR
    • 405th CA Bn. – Pleasant Grove, UT
    • 445th CA Bn. – Mountain View, CA
    • 448th CA Bn. – Ft. Lewis, WA
    • 440th CA Bn. - Ft. Carson, CO
  • 358th CA Bde. – Riverside, CA
    • 416th CA Bn. (ABN) – San Diego, CA
    • 425th CA Bn. – Encino, CA
    • 426th CA Bn. (ABN) – Upland, CA
    • 492nd CA Bn. – Phoenix, AZ
352nd Civil Affairs Command Brig. Gen. Edward G. Burley Fort Meade, Maryland
  • 354th CA Bde. – Riverdale, MD
    • 401st CA Bn. – Webster, NY
    • 414th CA Bn. – Southfield, MI
    • 422nd CA Bn. – Greensboro, NC
    • 437th CA Bn. – Ft. Story, VA
  • 360th CA Bde. (ABN) – Columbia, SC
    • 412th CA Bn. (ABN) – Whitehall, OH
    • 431st CA Bn. – Little Rock, AR
    • 450th CA Bn. (ABN) – Riverdale, MD
    • 489th CA Bn. – Knoxville, TN
353rd Civil Affairs Command Brig. Gen. Daniel R. Ammerman Ft. Wadsworth, Staten Island, New York
  • 304th CA Bde. – Bristol, PA
    • 403rd CA Bn. – Mattydale, NY
    • 404th CA Bn. (ABN) – Ft. Dix, NJ
    • 411th CA Bn. – Danbury, CT
    • 443rd CA Bn. – Newport, RI
  • 308th CA Bde. – Homewood, IL
    • 407th CA Bn. – Arden Hills, MN
    • 415th CA Bn. – Kalamazoo, MI
    • 418th CA Bn. – Belton, MO
    • 432nd CA Bn. – Green Bay, WI

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