4th Civil Affairs Group

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 4th Civil Affairs Group


caption= 4th CAG insignia
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country= United States
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branch= USMCR
type= Civil Affairs
role= Plan & conduct civil-military operations in concert with combat operations to reach the commander’s objectives.
size= Approximately 125
command_structure= Marine Forces Reserve
current_commander= Col Gerard W. Fischer
garrison= Naval Support Facility Anacostia
Washington, DC
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battles= Operation Desert Storm
Operation Iraqi Freedom
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4th Civil Affairs Group (4th CAG) is a civil affairs (CA) unit of the United States Marine Corps. It is based at Naval Support Facility Anacostia, Washington, DC.cite web|accessdate=2007-08-30
publisher=Civil Affairs Association
url=http://www.civilaffairsassoc.org/caunits.htm
title="Our Nations Civil Affairs Units"
date=2002 This webpage listed locations of civil affairs units throughout the United States.] It is one of only two CA units in the Marine Corps, both of which are reserve units. The other unit is 3d CAG, based at Camp Pendleton, CA. 3d CAG tends to support I MEF and 4th CAG tends to support II MEF.

Organization

4th CAG is commanded by a Colonel and the unit has 38 Marine officers, 85 Marine enlisted, 4 Navy officers and 1 Navy enlisted.cite book|accessdate=2007-11-01
url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/usmc/to/command/To4998r.htm
author=U.S. Marine Corps
title=4th Civil Affairs Group, MARFORRES — Table of Organization
work=Report No. I5921C4A-1 Table of Manpower Requirements (T/O 4998R)
date=February 1999] The unit consists of one (1) Headquarters Detachment and four (4) Line Detachments. Civil Affairs Marines carry the secondary Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) 0530/0531 (Civil Affairs Specialist/Officer) in addition to their primary MOS.

History

4th CAG sent a detachment to Operation Desert Storm in 1991 [Colonel Charles J. Quilter II. "U.S. Marines in the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991: With the I Marine Expeditionary Force in Desert Shield and Desert Storm" (Washington, DC: Marine Corps History and Museums Division, 1993), 65.] and numerous detachments to the Balkans in mid 1990s until 2003. 4th CAG participated in numerous New Horizons missions in Central/South America and the Caribbean Islands. 4th CAG deployed to Iraq three times for Operation Iraqi Freedom: (1) February to September 2003, (2) August 2004 to March 2005 and (3) September 2006 to April 2007. 4th CAG sent a detachment to support Joint Task Force Katerina in New Orleans, Louisiana from September to October 2005.

Unit awards

*Presidential Unit Citation
**March 21, 2003 to April 24, 2003 (with I MEF)
*Navy Unit Commendation
**January 1997 to November 2001
**August 02, 2004 to February 01, 2005 (with I MEF)
*Meritorious Unit Commendation
**August 01, 1990 to June 30, 1991 (with 4th MarDiv)

Notable members

*Paul Hackett, ran for United States Congress
*Andrew Horne, ran for United States Congress

ee also

*Civil Affairs

Footnotes

References

*cite book|accessdate=2007-11-02
url=http://www.civilaffairsassoc.org/Feb2006%20briefs/CA%20Association%20Marine%20Brief_files/frame.htm
author=4th CAG|title=USMC Civil Affairs Update|origdate=2006-02-04 4th CAG briefed this slideshow presentation at the Civil Affairs Association Winter Board Meeting on February 4, 2006 and it contained a good summary of the organization and its missions. It also contained a synopsis of 4th CAG support to OIF and the future direction of the unit.
*cite book|author=4th CAG|title=4th CAG Command Chronology for Calendar Year 2003|origdate=2004-03-12
*cite book|author=4th CAG|title=4th CAG Command Chronology 1 July 2004-31 December 2004 |origdate=2005-04-19
*cite book|author=4th CAG|title=4th CAG Command Chronology for Calendar Year 2005|origdate=2006-07-15

External links

* [http://www.mfr.usmc.mil/hq/4thcag/ 4th Civil Affairs Group homepage]
* [http://www.civilaffairsassoc.org/ Civil Affairs Association homepage]
* cite web|accessdate=
url=http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=417
title="Marines Hold Full-Scale Civil Affairs Training Exercise"
author=Smith, Steven Donald
publisher=American Forces Press Service
date=August 10, 2006