Shaping the Civil Maritime Operational Environment Stability, Security, Access

1. The Benefits of a Civil Affairs Tour Shaping the Civil Maritime Operational Environment Stability, Security, Access LT Josh Frey, OIC MCAT 101

2. Overview • Mission and Vision • Definitions • Organization • Capabilities • Functional Areas • Training • Types of Missions • Benefits to the Public Affairs Career Path • Way Ahead

3. MISSION AND VISION Mission: The Maritime Civil Affairs Group (MCAG) mans, trains, and equips Navy Sailors to facilitate, maintain, influence, or enhance relations between military forces, governmental and nongovernmental organizations, and the civilian populace. Vision: In support of the 21st Century Maritime Strategy, MCAG will foster and sustain cooperative relationships in order to promote regional stability, prevent conflict and to protect United States interests. Core Competencies: -Plans and Operations -Assessment -Maritime Functional Area Expertise -Civil Military Operations Center (CMOC) “The Navy’s continued role in humanitarian assistance, disaster relief and pre-conflict operations are equally important to enhancing maritime security and fostering economic stability.” ADM Mike Mullen, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff. 3

4. What Is Civil Affairs To Me? • Civil Affairs counteracts agents of instability (terrorists, criminal elements, natural disaster) from co-opting a civil populace. • In irregular warfare, the center of gravity is the people. • Civil Affairs personnel identify, plan and facilitate the execution of projects to meet the needs of the people and legitimize the host nation government, rather than bad actors seeking the people’s support through similar methods.

5. ORGANIZATION NECC Regionally Aligned Regionally Focused 174 / 154 / 9 AC / RC / CIV MCAG Total = 337 MCAG (Little Creek,VA) FOC DEC 08 Functional Specialists MCAS ONE (Imperial Beach,CA) FOC JUL 09 FOC DEC 08 MCAS TWO (Yorktown, VA) A/C Team A/C Team A/C Team A/C Team A/C Team A/C Team A/C Team A/C Team A/C Team A/C Team A/C Team A/C Team A/C Team A/C Team A/C Team A/C Team A/C Team A/C Team A/C Team A/C Team A/C Team A/C Team A/C Team A/C Team 7 R/C MCAT A/C Team A/C Team A/C Team A/C Team 8 A/C MCAT 8 R/C MCAT 9 A/C MCAT 5

6. MCAS CAPABILITIES MCAS Provides: • Deployable staff capable of: • Establishing Civil Military Operations Center (CMOC) • Providing Maritime Civil Affairs Operational Planners • Providing Maritime Civil Affairs Teams (MCAT). • Supports Civil Affairs, Humanitarian Civic Action, Civil Military Operations, Humanitarian Assistance, and Disaster relief activities. • Collaborate with non-traditional partners; Non-Government Organizations, Private Volunteer Organizations, Interagency (NGO, PVO, IA), particularly across military-civilian lines. • Command & Control of assigned Civil Affairs Forces • Civil Information Management. 6

7. MCAT CAPABILITIES MCAT : • Comprised of five Civil Affairs trained Sailors • Commander, Communicator, Corpsman, Constructionman, Coxswain • Performs civil reconnaissance of the civil element • Coordinates interagency and NGO collaboration • Conducts Maritime CA/CMO planning capability integrated with USN forces • Civil Information Management (CIM) 7

8. TRAINING • Civil Affairs Specialty Training • -6 Week CA Generalist • -Operational Planning Course • -Maritime Functional Areas Training: NOAA, Fleet Survey • -CMO Campaign Planning, Joint Special Operations University • Cultural / Language Training • -SE Asia Orientation/Rudimentary Tagalog Course, Old Dominion • -Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies • -Intercultural Negotiations • Expeditionary Skills Training • -6 weeks Blackwater Level Iand II -Marine Corps Martial Arts Program • -Combatives, Linxx Security • -1st Marine Division sustainment training

9. Non-Kinetic Operations • Identify key centers of gravity or influence within the civil component of the battlefield. • Use information to plan projects designed to obtain support of the local populace either for the U.S. and/or the host nation. • Gather information during execution to determine the effectiveness of the project or operation.

10. TYPES OF MISSIONS Foreign Humanitarian Assistance (FHA) -Humanitarian Civic Assistance (HCA) • Pacific Partnership • Continuing Promise • Africa Partnership Station • Global Fleet Station -Disaster Relief • Haiti Nation Assistance (NA) • JSOTF-P • Horn of Africa • Iraq Populace and Resource Control (PRC) • Nimitz Force protection Exercise

11. PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP 2008 • Facilitated the execution of Civic Action Projects ashore ISO PP08 and USNS Mercy MEDCAP/ENCAP/VETCAP teams. -Ensured security, crowd control measures and patient rooms were established. • Conducted Civil Information Management to assist MEDCAP/ENCAP teams’ planning efforts. -Gathered information to assist CPF staff determine Measures of Effectiveness (MIS forms). • Performed CMOC functions ashore by future projects. -Met with village chiefs, school officials, HN military/police and NGOs to force multiply MEDCAP efforts through partnerships. -Info sharing through inrelief.org to support future projects.

12. RESULTS • Partnership building. • Capacity building. • Interoperability with CA elements of other nations and other services. • Identified future projects in Maritime Functional Areas: • Assessed ports of Polloc in Cotabato and Dili, Timor Leste • Determined maritime training for security forces in Timor Leste. • Identified a desire for hydrographic survey in Polloc, based on FST checklist.

13. NIMITZ FPX • 1 MCAT, 1 Planner made up a Task Group of an NECC Forward shore-based task force. • MCAT conducted civil assessments to minimize impact of Naval Operations on a the host nation. • MCAT used non-lethal means (negotiation, assessments) to prevent intrusion of civil populace into U.S. Navy fleet landing site. • Conducted initial pier/port assessment to maximize effectiveness of Underwater Construction Team Task Group, in addition to NCIS. Results: • Effective interoperability with an NECC Forward element. • Worked to a future model for UCT and NCIS working relationship to provide Nation Assistance in order obtain access to a civil environment

14. ADVANTAGES TO MCA AND PA VALUE ADDED FROM PA to MCAG: • Engagement of Civil Authorities = Military support to public diplomacy. • Coordinating Unity of Effort through interagency, NGOs, HN military and civil authorities. • Internal communication to major staffs and TF Commanders on the new capability of Maritime Civil Affairs. • Civil Information Management (CIM)/info sharing. VALUE ADDED TO THE PA COMMUNITY: • Non-Kinetic operations planning to assist community relations and overseas enangement. • Language training and Intercultural Communication • Expeditionary/Irregular Warfare Combat Skills, eventually leading to EXW qual. • CA team leader OIC NOBC

15. Way Ahead? • NOBC can enable numbered fleet, CVN, ESG PAOs as PAO/CMO staff planner. • Maximize the impact of COMREL and Media Operations by utilizing the CA assessment, planning and execution process. • Enable PAOs to move into other expeditionary PAO tours; i.e NECC Forward. • NOBC opens the door for PAOs to serve on other public diplomacy/nation building GSA tours, i.e. Provincial Reconstruction Teams. • Currently drafting AQD. • PAOs return to MCAS/MCAG in more senior billets, or with SOCOM = the graduate level CA tour.

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