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38BE8-E9

Civil Affairs Specialist

E-8 to E-9 (Senior NCO) · Army

E1–E3E-4E-5E-6E-7E8–E9
HEADS UP

You are the senior enlisted Civil Affairs voice in a CA battalion, a CA brigade, or on a SOCOM staff. The supported JSOTF CDR or BCT CG names you in the slide. The team sergeants and CMOC NCOICs below you are learning the senior NCO standard from watching how you handle the hard cases — the interagency friction, the RC integration disputes, the assessment quality failures that land on the senior enlisted leader's desk when the officer does not want to take them.

The Honest MOS Read
1SG, MSG, SGM, and CSM in the Civil Affairs community carry a responsibility that few Army senior enlisted leaders understand fully from outside the community. The Civil Affairs force is small, globally-deployed, and structurally dependent on the Reserve Component in ways that require the senior enlisted leader to manage a fundamentally different integration challenge than the conventional force. The RC holds roughly 80 percent of 38B billets, and the professional civilian expertise those soldiers bring — licensed engineers, practicing attorneys, public health professionals, municipal administrators — is not a side benefit of the reserve structure. It is the operational capability the CA mission was funded to deliver. The senior enlisted leader who treats the RC as a subordinate force to be managed is losing the war before the mission starts. As 1SG of a CA company or battalion headquarters, you run the NCO corps, the assessment readiness, the CMOC posture, the casualty workflow, the orderly room, the SHARP and EO climate inside a small force that deploys in teams of four to six across multiple countries simultaneously. You cannot be present for every event. The command climate you establish in garrison is the one the junior soldier takes into the field when you are not there — which is most of the time. The 1SG whose formation is tight and whose SHARP program is visible and credible is building a force that can operate in the austere, largely unsupervised environments the CA mission requires. As SGM or CSM at a CA brigade — the 95th CA Brigade (Airborne) at Fort Liberty, the 38th, 91st, or 489th CA Brigades, or a SOCOM-level civil affairs headquarters — you set the standard for the enlisted CA force across hundreds of deployments, exercises, and interagency coordination events per year. You sit in rooms with senior USAID officials, senior DOS officers, and SOCOM commanders and you represent the Army's civil affairs enterprise with enough credibility that the conversation ends with a concrete outcome, not a referral. The senior USAID official who engages seriously with the CSM's input on civil affairs employment doctrine is doing so because the CSM's operational track record earns the conversation. The HQDA and USSOCOM policy advisory function at the senior enlisted level is real. Civil affairs force structure, employment doctrine, RC integration policy, interagency coordination authorities, and the career management framework for the 38B community are all shaped by the inputs of senior CA NCOs to the FORSCOM, USSOCOM, and HQDA G-3/5/7 working groups. The CSM who does not engage that advisory function is leaving the CA force's employment doctrine to be shaped by people who have never run a CMOC.
Career Arc
  • 011SG pin-on: CA company or battalion headquarters, first full cycle managing the orderly room, SHARP program, and enlisted readiness reporting.
  • 02USASMA (SGM Academy) — required for competitive E-9 consideration and for the command CSM or SOCOM-level senior enlisted advisor slate.
  • 03MSG/SGM assignment: SOCOM-level or HQDA advisory function, policy engagement for CA force structure and employment doctrine.
  • 04CSM slate: CA brigade command CSM or SOCOM senior CA advisor — the CA community's senior enlisted voice at the enterprise level.
  • 05Post-Army transition planning: the 38B skill set at the senior level is marketable in USAID contractor roles, NGO executive positions, and government senior civil service.
  • 06SOCOM policy engagement: CA employment doctrine, RC integration policy, interagency coordination authorities — the senior enlisted advisory function that shapes the next generation of CA doctrine.
  • 07Legacy investment: the team sergeants and CMOC NCOICs you developed are picking up first sergeant chevrons and the CA community's quality standard reflects the NCOs you built.
Common Screwups
  • ×Pretending to be the senior technical civil-affairs voice on a regional or political question where you are out of date. USAID officers, DOS political advisors, and SOCOM J9 staff will catch it in the first meeting — and the access goes with the credibility.
  • ×Letting a CA company or team sergeant drift on CMOC discipline because 'the CMOC OIC will catch it.' You own the enlisted readiness; the CMOC OIC is your partner, not your substitute.
  • ×Going public with disagreement over a supported CDR's civil affairs employment decision. Take it through the CA chain of command. Walk out aligned, or push back in writing through the right echelon.
  • ×Treating the RC integration piece as a manning problem instead of a force-multiplier. The 38th, 91st, and 489th CA brigades hold the vast majority of the CA force and most of the professional civilian expertise the mission runs on — senior leaders who marginalize the RC lose the war before it starts.
  • ×Confusing seniority with current regional or interagency relevance. The team sergeant who just came off a 10-month USAID coordination mission in country knows more about that operating environment than you do — brief from their CIRs, not from your deployment three cycles ago.

A Day in the Life

  • 0500Formation accountability across the battalion or brigade. The 1SG knows the status of every soldier before the CDR's formation. The CSM knows the readiness status of every company before the brigade CDR's brief.
  • 0530-0630PT. CSM leads by example — the formation reads the senior enlisted leader's physical standard the way they read the command climate. A CSM who is visibly fit is communicating a standard; a CSM who shows up to PT late and leaves early is communicating a different one.
  • 0700-0800Pre-morning brief preparation: battalion or brigade readiness picture, any personnel issues from overnight, CMOC posture update from the CMOC NCOIC.
  • 0800-0900CDR's morning brief or battalion commander's update. Senior enlisted leader's role: provide the enlisted readiness picture, flag personnel and disciplinary issues, represent the NCO corps' assessment of the formation's readiness.
  • 0900-1100Senior NCO development: counseling for rated NCOs if in cycle, pipeline review with the S3 NCO, NCOER input review for the formation's rated SSGs and SFCs.
  • 1100-1300Chow. Use this time to walk through the formation — the 1SG who eats with the soldiers learns more in 30 minutes than the one who eats in the orderly room.
  • 1300-1600Policy advisory and coordination: SOCOM working group inputs, RC integration coordination with the RC brigade CSMS, interagency coordination at the senior level, or readiness brief preparation for the supported CDR.
  • 1600-1700End-of-day formation. Senior enlisted leader accountability for the formation. Close-of-business brief to the CDR on any personnel or readiness issues that need command decision before tomorrow.
  • 1700-1900Senior enlisted leader office time: NCOER review, policy input drafts, USASMA coordination if in the pre-course window. Or family time if the day's operational demands allow it.
  • 1900-2100Reading: SOCOM and FORSCOM policy publications, CA doctrine updates from JFKSWCS, USASMA reading list. The CSM who stays current on the policy layer is doing the senior advisory function; the one who stops reading policy after USASMA is operating from a snapshot.

Weekly Cadence

Monday is the command climate and readiness assessment day. The 1SG's pulse check on the formation — counseling cadence status, outstanding personnel actions, SHARP program activity, CMOC posture — informs the battalion commander's weekly brief. The CSM's Monday is the pipeline review: which SSGs are SLC-board ready, which SFCs are in the MLC window, which senior NCOs have upcoming NCOER suspenses. Tuesday through Thursday are the operational days. Deployments run continuously across the CA enterprise; garrison tempo in this window is senior NCO development, interagency coordination, and policy advisory engagement. The 1SG's mid-week is the orderly room — personnel actions, promotions, separations, counseling reviews. The CSM's mid-week is the advisory function — SOCOM working group inputs, RC integration coordination, CDR's civil information readiness briefing preparation. Friday is the week-close and forward-look day. Outstanding NCOER inputs are reviewed and routed. The pipeline brief to the CDR is updated. The family readiness program status is reviewed — not because the spouses cannot manage it but because the senior enlisted leader who does not know the family readiness program's health cannot honestly sign the readiness report that includes it.

Key Skills — How to Drill Each

  1. 01
    Run a CA battalion or brigade enlisted readiness picture — CMOC posture, assessment qualification, airborne currency, language program, team-sergeant pipeline — and defend it at the JSOTF CDR or SOCOM CG level.
    The enlisted readiness picture at this level is not a database printout — it is a synthesized assessment of the force's ability to deliver the CA mission across its entire deployment portfolio. Know the metrics: how many teams are assessment-qualified, how many team sergeants are SLC-complete and MLC-complete, what the language program compliance rate is, what the ACFT pass rate looks like by tier, what the CMOC data quality picture shows across the brigade's rotations. Brief that picture to the CDR with the same confidence-level discipline you expect from the CMOC's civil situation brief to the JSOTF J9.
  2. 02
    Brief a SOCOM-level or HQDA-level audience on Civil Affairs force readiness, interagency coordination posture, and the RC-to-AD integration.
    A SOCOM-level readiness brief is not a status update — it is a strategic assessment of the CA force's capacity to deliver the JSOTF's CMO requirements across current and anticipated operational demands. Know the force structure math, the deployment tempo, the RC mobilization cycle, the interagency partnership maturity across the supported GCCs, and the institutional education pipeline status for the senior NCO development track. Brief with concrete data, acknowledge gaps, and arrive with a recommendation for how to address the top three readiness shortfalls — not just a description of them.
  3. 03
    Mentor the team-sergeant and CMOC-NCOIC pipeline across a brigade-sized CA enterprise — SLC-board readiness, MLC slate, senior NCO development, the CW3 accession rate.
    At CSM level, individual mentorship is replaced by systemic mentorship: building the development program that produces SLC-board-ready SSGs, MLC-track SFCs, and senior NCO candidates at a rate the brigade CDR can defend at FORSCOM. Know the pipeline by name: which SSGs are SLC-board ready this cycle, which SFCs are MLC-complete and competitive for the first-sergeant slate, which CSM candidates are in the USASMA pipeline. Brief the pipeline to the brigade CDR quarterly with the same rigor the CMOC OIC briefs the civil information posture.
  4. 04
    Represent the Army's civil affairs mission in a senior interagency coordination forum with enough authority to make commitments the chain can stand behind.
    Senior interagency coordination at this level means showing up with a read on what the Army's CA force is authorized to do in the operating environment, what the interagency partners need that the CA force can provide, and what the CA force needs from the interagency partners that will require a formal coordination agreement. The senior USAID official who invests in that conversation is doing so because the CSM arrived with the authority and the operational knowledge to make the exchange productive. Arrive prepared to make commitments and arrive prepared to explain why certain requests require a formal coordination channel rather than a verbal commitment.
  5. 05
    Run a CA brigade command climate and SHARP/EO program inside a force that deploys in small, globally-dispersed teams.
    The command climate you establish in garrison is the one the junior soldier takes into the field when you are 8,000 miles away and the team sergeant is the only senior leader in the building. Build the SHARP program as an operational readiness tool, not an administrative compliance function — the force that knows how to report an incident, protect the reporter, and manage the investigation without the chain collapsing is the force that can sustain operations in austere environments without coming home with a SHARP crisis that destroys the command climate the next 1SG inherits.

Manuals & References — What Chapters Matter

  • AR 600-20 — Army Command Policy and AR 27-10 — Military Justice
    You are in the room for every hard case — the Article 15, the separation board, the SHARP investigation, the senior NCO integrity issue. These two regulations are the framework you operate from in those rooms. Know them, not the summaries.
  • FM 3-57 — Civil Affairs Operations, JP 3-57 — Civil-Military Operations, and JP 3-08 — Interorganizational Cooperation
    You teach these now at the enterprise level — not to the junior soldiers but to the civilian counterparts who need to understand what the CA force does and why it is different from every other Army force they have worked with. The senior USAID official who understands the CA force's interorganizational coordination doctrine is a better long-term partner than the one who thinks you are a version of Civil Affairs they encountered in 2003.
  • ADP 3-05 — Special Operations and ADP 3-07 — Stability
    The strategic doctrinal home of the active-duty CA mission. At the senior enlisted leader level, you are not just operating inside these frameworks — you are shaping how the CA force applies them through the policy advisory function. Know the ADP-level argument for why the CA mission is funded, manned, and employed the way it is.
  • JP 3-29 — Foreign Humanitarian Assistance and JP 3-24 — Counterinsurgency
    The joint campaign frameworks your teams operate inside on the majority of SOCOM-aligned CA deployments. The CSM who cannot situate the CA force's civil information enterprise within the JSOTF's FHA or COIN campaign plan is leaving the policy advisory function to the J9 officer — and the J9 officer's read on CA employment will not always reflect what the enlisted CA force can actually deliver.
  • USASMA / SGM Academy reading list and USSOCOM / FORSCOM ALARACT and FRAGO publications
    The policy layer that governs what the CA force is authorized to do and where. The senior enlisted leader who is not reading the SOCOM and FORSCOM policy publications is learning about policy changes from the subordinate NCOs they are supposed to be leading — and that is backwards.

Standards — How to Hit Each

  • USASMA / SGM Academy completion before competing for command CSM or SOCOM-level senior enlisted advisor slate.
    The SGM Academy is not optional for competitive E-9 positions in any Army branch, including CA. Build the timeline around USASMA availability and the first-sergeant tour duration — most CSM candidates complete USASMA during or immediately after the first MSG/SGM tour. Know where you are in the timeline and brief the brigade CDR on your USASMA completion plan, not your USASMA intention.
  • CA brigade or battalion CMOC readiness sustained at or above SOCOM standard.
    The readiness standard is not a static metric — it is the supported command's civil information requirement. Brief the readiness picture against what the JSOTF J9 or SOCOM CG needs the CA force to deliver, not against a garrison administrative benchmark. Gaps between the two are the senior enlisted leader's readiness problem to solve, not the CMOC OIC's QC problem to manage.
  • Zero senior-NCO-level integrity, OPSEC, or interagency-access incidents.
    One incident at the senior enlisted level compromises partner-nation relationships the CA force spent years building and ends the career permanently. The standard is not enforced by compliance — it is enforced by the command climate the 1SG and CSM build in garrison, which is the climate the team sergeant takes into the field. Build it deliberately.
  • NCOER profile defensible at brigade and SOCOM — the rated NCOs you raised are picking up first sergeant and SGM chevrons on schedule.
    The CSM's NCOER legacy is measured over time by whether the NCOs who received 'Most Qualified' or 'Highly Qualified' from that CSM are actually selected and performing at the next level. If the NCOER profile is inflated, the selection rate eventually diverges from the narrative. Build NCOERs that are honest about both performance and potential — the NCO who is 'Highly Qualified' and honest is better positioned than the one who is 'Most Qualified' and later revealed to be mid-tier.
  • Team-sergeant and CMOC-NCOIC pipeline producing SLC-board-ready SSGs and MLC-track SFCs at a rate the brigade CDR can defend at FORSCOM.
    Brief the pipeline quarterly to the brigade CDR with the same rigor the CMOC OIC briefs the civil information posture: names, timelines, current status, what is on track, what needs command intervention. The CSM who cannot brief the pipeline by name is not running a pipeline.

Technical Mistakes — Concrete Consequences

  • Pretending to be the senior technical voice on a regional or political question where you are out of date.
    USAID officers, DOS political advisors, and SOCOM J9 staff who catch a senior enlisted leader asserting outdated operational knowledge in a senior coordination forum will route future coordination around that leader — and the CA force's interagency access at that echelon degrades in ways the JSOTF CDR will notice.
  • Letting a CA company or team sergeant drift on CMOC discipline because the CMOC OIC will catch it.
    The senior enlisted leader who delegates quality control to the officer creates a force where the enlisted NCOs believe quality standards are the officer's responsibility — and that belief travels into the field with the team sergeant, where the officer is not present to enforce it.
  • Going public with disagreement over a supported CDR's civil affairs employment decision.
    Senior enlisted leaders who disagree with employment decisions publicly — in front of subordinates, in a planning meeting, in a coordination forum — undermine both the supported commander's authority and the CA chain of command's credibility with the JSOTF staff, and the professional fallout from that public disagreement follows the career forward.
  • Treating the RC integration piece as a manning problem instead of a force-multiplier design decision.
    The 38th, 91st, and 489th CA brigades hold the majority of the Army CA force and most of the professional civilian expertise the mission depends on — a senior enlisted leader who marginalizes the RC in employment planning is degrading the capability the JSOTF J9 is counting on to deliver civil information across the operating environment.
  • Briefing the supported CDR from your deployment three cycles ago instead of from the team sergeant's current CIRs.
    A senior leader whose civil situation knowledge is three cycles stale will brief a regional or political dynamic that the current operating environment no longer reflects — and the JSOTF J9 who has the current team sergeant's CIRs in hand will correct the brief in front of the commander, which is not the civil affairs enterprise's best moment.

Career Decisions at This Rank

  • Post-Army transition: when and into what?
    The 38B senior enlisted leader at the E-8/E-9 level has built a 20-year track record in civil information analysis, interagency coordination, senior leader development, and SOF-adjacent operations. The civilian market for that background is real and wide: USAID senior program officer and deputy mission director roles for those with current operational relationships and DLPT currency; NGO country director and program vice president positions for those with deep regional expertise; defense analysis contracting at the senior level for those with current clearances and SOCOM operational experience; federal civilian government at the GS-14 to SES level for those who want to stay in the policy advisory lane. The honest question is not 'can I find a good job?' — it is 'what do I want the next 20 years to look like?' and 'which civilian lane makes that possible?' Make the decision deliberately and with enough lead time to develop the civilian relationships while the uniform still opens doors.
  • CSM track vs. functional retirement at MSG/SGM — is the CSM investment worth it?
    The command CSM or SOCOM-level senior CA advisor position is the capstone of a 25-year CA career. It is not the right goal for every senior NCO. The CSM track requires USASMA, a competitive E-9 board cycle, and a command CSM assignment that may take the family to a location that creates real costs. The MSG/SGM retirement at 20-22 years with the CA skill set fully current and the civilian transition window still open is a defensible and strategically smart decision for many senior NCOs whose family situation, civilian credentials, and retirement horizon make the CSM investment net-negative. Do the math honestly against your specific situation, not against an abstract career-progression ideal.
  • RC integration policy advocacy — is it worth engaging the working group channel?
    Yes, and the calculus is not complicated. The CA force's employment doctrine, RC integration policy, and interagency coordination authority framework are shaped in working groups that the senior enlisted leadership of the CA community has access to and influence on. The CSM who engages that channel — submitting written input, attending working group meetings, building relationships with the SOCOM J5 and the FORSCOM G-3/5/7 staff — is shaping the CA force's capabilities for the next decade. The CSM who does not engage is letting the CA force be shaped by people who have never run a CMOC. That is a bad outcome for the force and for the soldiers whose careers depend on the employment doctrine those people write.

How the Seat Varies by Unit Type

  • 95th CA Brigade (Airborne) 1SG or CSM — Active Duty, SOCOM-aligned, Fort Liberty
    The senior enlisted leader of the 95th CA Brigade is running the operational heart of the active-duty CA force in a genuine SOCOM environment where the standards are set by the surrounding SOF community and the interagency partners are real USAID and DOS contacts with program stakes. The 1SG's formation is globally deployed in teams that cannot be directly supervised; the command climate established in garrison is the culture the team sergeant takes into the field. The CSM's credibility with the SOCOM CG is earned through the CA force's operational outputs, not through the seniority of the rank.
  • 38th, 91st, or 489th CA Brigade 1SG or CSM — Army Reserve, distributed, mobilization-cycle
    The RC CA brigade senior enlisted leader is managing a force that holds the majority of the Army's CA capability and deploys in mobilization cycles that can exceed a year. The professional civilian expertise in the formation is the force multiplier, not a personnel management challenge. The 1SG or CSM who treats RC soldiers as less capable versions of the active-duty force loses the assessment quality, the interagency credibility, and the operational maturity of the formation in exchange for a compliance posture that does not survive contact with the operating environment.
  • SOCOM-level Civil Affairs Staff Advisor — MSG/SGM at a TSOC or USSOCOM staff
    The SOCOM-level CA staff advisor position is the senior enlisted advisory function at its most consequential. The MSG or SGM who advises the TSOC J9 or the USSOCOM J5 on CA employment, force structure, and interagency coordination authorities is shaping operational decisions that affect hundreds of deployed CA operators. The credibility for that advisory function is earned from the operational track record that preceded the staff assignment — the advisor who shows up to the TSOC staff without current operational knowledge is a bureaucratic participant in a planning function, not a senior advisory resource.

What Good Looks Like at This Rank

The good CA CSM, 1SG, or SGM is the senior enlisted leader the SOCOM or BCT CG names when the interagency coordination gets complicated and they need someone who can walk into a USAID mission director's office and get a useful outcome — not because of the rank but because of the track record. The USAID mission director who takes the meeting is doing so because the previous engagement produced concrete results and the CA force honored every commitment that was made. Their team-sergeant pipeline is producing SLC-board-ready SSGs at a rate above the SOCOM CA average, and the CSM knows it by name — not by count. The SFCs on the MLC track know they are on the MLC track because the CSM told them directly, not because they inferred it from the assignment system. The CMOC posture is the one the J9 quotes in the planning guidance because the CSM ran the readiness brief against the J9's civil information requirements, not against a garrison administrative benchmark. When the RC integration question comes up in the HQDA G-3/5/7 working group, the SOCOM J5 already knows which CSM to call because that CSM has been engaging the policy channel for two years — showing up to the working group meetings, submitting written input on the RC employment framework, and doing it from a position of operational knowledge, not seniority. The CA force's employment doctrine for the next decade reflects those inputs. That is the senior enlisted leader's legacy — not the ribbon rack, the policy trace.

Preview — The Next Rank

There is no next rank in the Army after E-9. The next level for the CA CSM or SGM is post-Army, and the honest preview of that level is this: the 38B career at the senior enlisted level builds a skill set that is genuinely valuable outside the Army — arguably more valuable outside the Army than most other military specialties — because the civilian counterparts the CA senior enlisted leader has been coordinating with for 20 years are the same civilian counterparts who hire for the roles that direct, manage, and oversee the programs the CA force was supporting. The USAID mission director who worked with you across three rotations knows what you can do. The DOS political officer whose interagency coordination you managed for two years has seen your judgment in action. The NGO program director whose data you protected and whose access you built into the civil information enterprise trusts your professional judgment in ways that translate directly into program director and country director conversations that other veterans do not have access to. The transition planning that matters most happens during the senior NCO years, not after the retirement orders are signed. The 38B CSM who maintained DLPT currency, stayed current on the civilian policy and aid-coordination landscape, and built genuine professional relationships with the civilian counterparts they worked alongside is the one who transitions smoothly. The one who let the civilian network go stale after the last deployment is the one who transitions into a defense contracting role that does not make use of the best of what the CA career built.
FAQ

38B E8-E9 — Frequently Asked Questions

Q01What does a E8-E9 38B (Civil Affairs Specialist) actually do?
As 1SG you run a CA company or battalion headquarters — the NCO corps, the assessment readiness, the CMOC posture, the casualty workflow, the orderly room, the SHARP and EO climate inside a small, globally-deployed force.
Q02What's the most important thing to know as a E8-E9 38B?
You are the senior enlisted Civil Affairs voice in a CA battalion, a CA brigade, or on a SOCOM staff.
Q03What does a typical day look like for a E8-E9 38B?
Time-blocked day at the E8-E9 38B rank tier: 0500 Formation accountability across the battalion or brigade. The 1SG knows the status of every soldier before the CDR's formation. The CSM knows the readiness status of every company before the brigade CDR's brief, 0530-0630 PT. CSM leads by example — the formation reads the senior enlisted leader's physical standard the way they read the command climate. A CSM who is visibly fit is communicating a standard; a CSM who shows up to PT late and leaves early is communicating a different one,…
Q04What mistakes get E8-E9 38B soldiers fired or relieved?
Pretending to be the senior technical civil-affairs voice on a regional or political question where you are out of date. USAID officers, DOS political advisors, and SOCOM J9 staff will catch it in the first meeting — and the access goes with the credibility; Letting a CA company or team sergeant drift on CMOC discipline because 'the CMOC OIC will catch it.' You own the enlisted readiness; the CMOC OIC is your partner, not your substitute;…
Q05What career decisions matter most at the E8-E9 38B rank tier?
Post-Army transition: when and into what? — The 38B senior enlisted leader at the E-8/E-9 level has built a 20-year track record in civil information analysis, interagency coordination, senior leader development, and SOF-adjacent operations. The civilian market for that background is real and wide: USAID senior program officer and deputy mission director roles for those with current operational relationships and DLPT currency; NGO country director and program vice president positions for those with deep regional expertise;…
Q06What's next after E8-E9 for a 38B (Civil Affairs Specialist) in the Army?
There is no next rank in the Army after E-9.
Q07What manuals and regulations does a E8-E9 38B need to know cold?
AR 600-20 — Army Command Policy; AR 27-10 — Military Justice (you are in the room for every hard case).; FM 3-57 — Civil Affairs Operations; JP 3-57 — Civil-Military Operations; JP 3-08 — Interorganizational Cooperation (you teach these now).; ADP 3-05 — Special Operations; ADP 3-07 — Stability (the strategic doctrinal home of the CA mission).

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