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Defense Department Announces Civilian Expeditionary
Workforce
Obama's promise of a civilian security force is set
in motion
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The Defense Department has established a "civilian expeditionary
workforce" that will see American civilians trained and
equipped to deploy overseas in support of worldwide military
missions.
The move is seen by some as an initial step towards
fulfilling president Obama's promise to form a civilian national
security force as powerful as the U.S. military.
The intent of the program “is to maximize
the use of the civilian workforce to allow military personnel
to be fully utilized for operational requirements,” according
to a Defense
Department report.
The program was officially implemented one week
ago, on the 23rd January, when Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon
England signed Defense
Department Directive 1404.10 (PDF), which provides
a summation of the duties the workforce will undertake.
The directive, which is effective immediately,
states that civilian employees of the DoD will be asked to sign
agreements stating that they will deploy in support of military
missions for up to two years if needed.
Workforce members, who are divided into different
designations under the directive, will serve overseas in support
of humanitarian, reconstruction and, if necessary, combat-support
missions.
"If the employee does not wish to deploy,
every effort will be made to reassign the employee to a nondeploying
position." the DoD report states.
While the directive suggests that the DoD will
at first seek volunteers to serve in the civilian workforce,
section 4, subsection (e) paragraph (2) states:
Management retains the authority
to direct and assign civilian employees, either voluntarily,
involuntarily, or on an unexpected basis to accomplish the
DoD mission.
In addition, the directive states that all workforce members
will be subject to physical and psychological testing, both
before and after deployment.
The directive refers several times to the civilian workforce
as a component of the "Total Force", which it describes
as "The organizations, units, and individuals that compromise
the DoD resources for implementing the National Security Strategy."
This "Total Force" includes active, reserve and retired
military personnel in addition to DoD civilian employees.
(Article continues below)
Back in July 2008, Barack Obama, then the presidential front
runner, called
for a "civilian national security force"
as powerful as the U.S. military.
"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to
achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got
to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful,
just as strong, just as well-funded," Obama
told a Colorado Springs audience.
The comments that were ignored by the vast majority of the
corporate media but were found to be troubling by some independent
journalists who compared the idea to the formation of the Nazi
Hitler Youth.
Fears of "youth brigades" or civilian stasi style
units increased following Obama's appointment of Rahm Emanuel
to chief-of staff.
In his book, "The Plan: Big Ideas for America," Emanuel
writes: "It's time for a real Patriot Act that brings out
the patriot in all of us. We propose universal civilian service
for every young American. Under this plan, all Americans between
the ages of 18 and 25 will be asked to serve their country by
going through three months of basic training, civil defense
preparation and community service."
The book also notes, "Some Republicans will squeal about
individual freedom, ruling out any likelihood that they would
let people opt out of universal citizen service."
Emanuel is also an enthusiastic supporter of the United
States Public Service Academy Act, a lobbying group
founded in 2006 in order to promote the foundation of an American
public service academy modeled on the military academies - a
youth corps whose students would be trained in "civilian
internship in the armed forces".
Furthermore, in a rediscovered 2006 audio clip of an interview
with Ben Smith of the New York Daily News, Emanuel
outlined the agenda for compulsory military-style
training, essentially a domestic draft, aimed at preparing Americans
for a chemical or biological terrorist attack.
When controversy arose over the program last November, the
use of the word "required" to describe the program
was
removed from Obama's change.gov website and replaced
with "community service" type terminology.
Though the civilian expeditionary workforce program is restricted
to DoD employees, similar programs have already been established
for public sector workers.
One such program has seen hundreds of police, firefighters,
paramedics and utility workers recently trained and dispatched
as "Terrorism
Liaison Officers" in Colorado, Arizona and
California to watch for "suspicious activity" which
is later fed into a secret government database.
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