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==== New York State Guard ==== In the New York State Guard, one of approximately 25 states with state defense forces, (not to be confused with the New York Army National Guard), the term 'Civil Affairs' has a slightly different connotation. The Civil Affairs units include lawyers, judges, engineers, doctors and other professionals and paraprofessionals committed to voluntary, part-time military service in support of the New York National Guard and U.S. Military Reserve Units from all branches. When soldiers are called up for duty, the New York Guard makes sure their legal needs are attended to so that they can serve with the peace of mind of knowing that their affairs are in order. Civil Affairs soldiers draft their wills, prepare powers of attorney and other necessary documents, and advise them of their rights as soldiers under federal law and as citizens of the United States. There are five units, one in each brigade of the Guard, including the 5th Civil Affairs Regiment, Yonkers, New York; 7th Civil Affairs Regiment, New York City; 13th Civil Affairs Regiment, Garden City, New York; 23rd Civil Affairs Regiment, Latham, New York; and the 209th Civil Affairs Regiment, Buffalo, New York.
== Civil affairs worldwide ==
=== United Kingdom === The British Army has a Civil Affairs Group, formed in 1997 and consisting primarily of Territorial Army personnel. Most personnel are members of the Royal Engineers and the group is administered by the Central Volunteer Headquarters Royal Engineers (CVHQ RE), based at Gibraltar Barracks, in Minley, Surrey. Members of the group have been deployed operationally in Bosnia, Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia, East Timor, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq. In Afghanistan, the tactical level unit was called Military Stabilisation Support Team, and they usually worked for the Provincial Reconstruction Team. The British Army first formed CA units in 1943, and by August 1944 there were 3,600 CA personnel in France with the 21st Army Group.
=== The Netherlands === The Royal Netherlands Army's Civil Affairs unit is 1 CIMIC Battalion. The staff consist of regular soldiers. Other personnel are reservists with a civilian occupation. Members of the battalion have been deployed to Bosnia; Macedonia; Africa and Afghanistan. The unit is, as of early 2009, based in Apeldoorn.
== Civil affairs in popular media == A Bell for Adano (Pulitzer Prize winning novel by John Hersey) and its adaptation A Bell for Adano (movie) depict a U.S. military government officer in occupied Italy during World War II. The Teahouse of the August Moon (novel), and its adaptations The Teahouse of the August Moon (play) and The Teahouse of the August Moon (film), depict U.S. military government personnel in occupied Okinawa during World War II. These were also adapted into the 1970 musical Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen. Three Kings (1999 film) the characters Barlow, Vig, and Elgin wear the USACAPOC patch, and Barlow identifies himself as a Civil Affairs Reservist.
== Footnotes ==
== References == Sorley, Lewis, A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam, ISBN 0-15-601309-6 King, R. Alan, Twice Armed: an American soldier's battle for hearts and minds in Iraq St. Paul, MN : Zenith Press, 2006. ISBN 9780760323861 plus Book Lecture at the Pritzker Military Library on June 12, 2008 Cleveland, Charles T., Benjamin Jensen, Susan Bryant, and Arnel P. David, Military Strategy in the 21st Century: People, Connectivity, and Competition New York, NY : Cambria Press, 2018. Book Site
== External links ==
U.S. Army Civil Affairs & Psychological Operations Command (Airborne), U.S. Army Reserve Official Website Civil Affairs Association US Army Field Manual 41-10 Civil Affairs Operations Friends Of Civil Affairs (FOCA) – a non-profit organization dedicated to the soldiers and families of 95th Civil Affairs Brigade (Airborne), United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC). [1] Archived 2017-09-09 at the Wayback Machine