European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 stars and stripes Friday March 30 2007 Navy creates 2 squadrons just for civil affairs by Jeff Schogol stars and stripes Arlington a the Navy is standing up a group of about 320 sailors to focus solely on civil affairs missions said it cmdr Bruce Farabee chief staff officer for the maritime civil affairs group the group will be established Friday at a ceremony at naval amphibious base Little Creek in Virginia according to the Navy traditionally the Navy has con ducted civil affairs missions such As painting local schools during port Calls Farabee said creating a civil affairs group will give sailors More time for such missions and allow them to focus More on the tasks at hand he said once you Start to go ashore whether its the army in the mid dle of a landlocked City or its the Navy interacting with the coast line or a riverine environment or a littoral civilians and military Are going to come in Contact and we Are going to be the coordinator the Facilitator the smoother of mat Contact Farabee said the sailors will work with Host nations to identify problems such As whether a Harbor needs dredging he said the group will help identify whether the Host nation itself or an outside organization such As the army corps of engineers is Best equipped to handle those problems the Navy plans to have two squadrons of civil affairs sailors Farabee said the first Squadron to be based in Imperial Beach Calif will be geared toward missions in the Pacific and us Central command theater of operations the second based in Yorktown a will be focused on missions for us euro Pean command and the planned Africa command the Navy plans on having All Andre of the us army Petty officer 1st class Michele Reed assigned to the 405th civil affairs battalion gives a Young afghan boy a deforming solution last year during a Village medical outreach in Andareh Village Afghanistan the Navy is creating two squadrons of sailors focused solely on civil affairs 320 sailors in the group trained and ready by september 2008 Farabee said training for the civil affairs sailors is expected to last five months and will include about six weeks of combat skills and five weeks of civil affairs basics and some time for cultural aware Ness training he said right now 20 sailors Are in the process of being trained for the civil affairs group Farabee said of those sailors 15 Are expected to deploy to latin America and South America in june the civil affairs group will re Fine its Mission requirements based on this initial deployment he said Farabee said the Navy has been involved with civilian popu lations since the first time we stepped on land but civil affairs has Takeh new importance in the Wake of the sept 112001 terrorist attacks the establishment of the Mari time civil affairs group is a re sult of the chief of naval operations global War on terror Initia Tive which is to engage areas that May be Ripe for terrorists to get into and exploit instability in that area he said email Jeff Schogol at Volvo military sales think you can t afford a void Volvo s40 241 Price starting at save under a Srp Volvo v70 24 Premium package convenience package satellite navigation delivered Price think again Volvo s60 2st Premium package sport package climate package Bix non headlamps delivered Price Volvo xc90 32 prices stmtin6 from Volvo us military sales Japan Japan office Tel 046 825 3265 email web  Price reflects base vehicle Price for us delivery Price shown Are for us delivery and reflect examples of current Winter wonder promotion 25t delivered Price reflects base Price performance package induces Premium package sport package climate packages Bix Enon lights for just v70 24 delivered Price includes base navigation when Premium package is ordered sales tax registration not included Winter wonder specials available on s40 v50560 v70 xc70 xc90 not on Contact us for details on All of our great offers promotion must end on All new orders prior to March 31st 2007