DoD Civilian Expeditionary Workforce

[Old Eagle]

My understanding is that the DoD civilians will serve as advisors in their day job lanes. When I was on the MOD advisory team in Afghanistan, we had an OSD civilian expert who was also an Army reservist. He worked with us as a mobilised 0-6. The rest of the team were primarily contractors. This new program appears to be aimed at filling the gap by providing real DoD employees to overseas missions rather than having to settle for either uniforms or contractors. Alibi -- they could also be used on PRTs in slots requiring their expertise.

Once again, this is just my reading of a bunch of articles out there.

[Tom Odom]

Given my recent experience in getting to the sand box, we have much work to do in terms of streamlining processes as well as team building. I told my guys that as a child in the south of the 1950s and an Africanist of the 89s and 90s I was hopeful that apartheid, separate but equal, and similar systems were in decline. They are not; they have a new variant between military and civilian. The system seems damned determine to drive as many wedges between the 2 as possible.

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Tom

[Ranger94]

Given my recent experience in getting to the sand box, we have much work to do in terms of streamlining processes as well as team building. I told my guys that as a child in the south of the 1950s and an Africanist of the 89s and 90s I was hopeful that apartheid, separate but equal, and similar systems were in decline. They are not; they have a new variant between military and civilian. The system seems damned determine to drive as many wedges between the 2 as possible.

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Tom

Having deployed both as military and as a civilian, this, IMHO, is one of the MAJOR problems with the system. Now that I am back here as military on a ETT I have made an effort to build a "Coalition of the Willing".