Petraeus asked Peter Mansoor, who had participated in the Council of Colonels, to serve as his executive officer in Iraq, a position similar to that of chief of staff in a civilian office.
Returning now to the new Pentagon Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance: There are three substantive operations within the Office, each under a civilian coordinator: Humanitarian Relief, Reconstruction, and Civil Administration.
The UK Foreign Office confirmed it had "withdrawn civilian mentors and advisers from institutions in the city as a temporary measure".
We have, even as we have drawn down our troops, 100, 000-plus troops since President Obama came into office, we have ramped up our civilian engagement.
She is still Pakistan's most prominent civilian political figure, although her two terms in office disappointed many Pakistanis and tarnished the dazzling reputation she initially enjoyed when she became the Islamic world's first elected female leader.
Its new civilian ruler, Olusegun Obasanjo, hinted before taking office that he would withdraw the army, though he has since said that it would stay there as a peacekeeping force at least until a new Sierra Leonean army can be formed.
In 1985, Tancredo Neves, the first civilian president after 21 years of military rule, died before taking office.
The Office of the High Representative (OHR) is the chief civilian peace implementation agency in Bosnia and Herzegovina, set up by the Dayton peace accord of 1995.
The present government is the first civilian government in Pakistani history that is poised to complete its full term of office sometime this year or early next year -- depending on when the next election is called -- without being overturned by a military coup or dismissed in some back room deal.
In January the affable Garner, who retired from the Army six years ago, was plucked from civilian life by his old friend Donald Rumsfeld to head the Pentagon's new Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance.
From 2009 to 2011, she served as Coordinator for the Interagency Provincial Affairs Office at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul and as Senior Civilian Representative for the Combined Joint Task-Force 82 with the International Security Assistance Force Regional Command-East at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.
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According to the Office of Economic Adjustment, which has been helping with this business since 1961, nearly two new civilian jobs have been created for every one lost in communities where bases have been closed in the past 35 years.
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