CIVILIAN POSTS TO BE FILLED WITH MILITARY

"... announcing a new strategy last month, President Obama promised “a dramatic increase in our civilian effort” in Afghanistan that would include “agricultural specialists and educators, engineers and lawyers”... the requirement for the “civilian surge” eventually would include hundreds of people with experience in such areas as small-business management, legal affairs, veterinary medicine, public sanitation, counter-narcotics efforts and air traffic control... to work on civilian reconstruction in combat zones. But enough of those civilians are not readily available... forcing the administration to turn to the military, Pentagon civilians and private contractors..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/world/asia/23military.html?_r=1&hp