Talk:United States Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command

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I wrote the July version of this article and the Civil Affairs article which have survived largely unedited for the past six months. Linking CAPOC to 'propaganda organisations' is inaccurate and I have removed the link. MrPrada 08:47, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

This article was put on WP:VFD, but survived after being rewritten (Votes for deletion/USACAPOC). Thue | talk 20:44, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Good news stories?
"Its special operators are some of the most highly trained soldiers in the U.S. Army, and are responsible for many good news stories each day."

I have deleted this phrase as it entirely lacks qualification, particularly of the definition of "good news stories". It has been stated that it does not operate domestically, so where are these "good news stories" being run? What do they involve? Are the stories factual, or propaganda-based? How highly trained are these soldiers, and in what?

If anyone can clarify this by all means revert, but I see this sentence as being in violation of WP:NPOV. --IntrigueBlue 09:47, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

I think the "good news stories" that run domestically are created by the American Media, not CAPOC itself, and that needs clarification. Also, the nature of CAPOC is that the reservists themselves bring skills from their civilian occupations that aren't normally found in the military, therefor the term "highly trained" is accurate but in need of further explination.MrPrada 02:53, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

USACAPOC draws from both the Reserves and the active Army. The highly skilled part is that the majority of the soldiers who volunteer for Civil Affairs and PSYOP come from the various combat arms and special operations branches of the Army. USACAPOC soldiers train on skills for multi-level combat operations, language skills, medical, airborne, and other levels of special operations requirements. The reserves does offer the hard to train skills for the active army having CA and PSYOP soldiers who are also city engineers, mayors, police, fire chiefs, manufacturing supervisors etc. plays greatly into the roles needed for Iraq and Afghanistan reconstruction. CA and PSYOP teams/units support both regular army and special operations forces during combat and other types of missions facilitating interaction with the civilian populace. Also CA and PSYOP conduct missions around the globe in both combat and humanitarian aid operations in times of war and peace with other nations. Now as for Good news stories I think PSYOP was confused with Public Affairs which is not a USACAPOC branch. PSYOP is there to inform the civilian populace of military matters. For example PSYOP can produce verbal, written (newspaper, billboards, etc) and video products to inform locals of dangers such as old mine fields, bad water, to stay inside during raids, etc. Civil affairs teams will be used to support reconstruction efforts, government establishment, build good relations through joint efforts with local leaders. As this is only a quick note of what USCAPOC can do please look into the good things that are being done by these men and women around the globe not just the negative media blasts. Also the Army and the Marines have the only Civil Affairs units in the US military. (2 June 2007) from a CA/PSYOP Soldier.

At least the "Psychological Operations" section deserves a neutral tone warning. Maybe a newsrelease|section badge? It's clearly written by someone whose primary interest is saying good things about this military group. I imagine there are good things to say about them, but it isn't informative and it isn't concise. It's just not what people are actually interested in when they look up this military organization. This page needs a real wikipedian. Not me. Perhaps there should be concrete examples of what this group does, has done? I'm going to throw that in there right now; if a real wikipedian will please stand up, they should feel free to revert me or even better to fix the section. 173.8.186.37 (talk) 23:31, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Why are non-American Non-Military people editing this page?
I see that several of the edits are form people who are A. Not American B. Not Military. Stay in your lane! From: CA/PSYOP Soldier Ft. Bragg, NC

Stay in YOUR lane, solider. The Posse Comitatus Act should prevent the Pentagon from including domestic "targets" in the "theater" of "war." Infiltrating American media to plant "good news" stories is UN-AMERICAN. And ANYONE can edit these pages; however, I do realize that the First Amendment stands as an inconvenient impediment to your propaganda mission. Operate within the bounds of the law and the Constitution, lest you become an "enemy of the State." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.94.119.132 (talk) 14:50, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

1st Training Brigade
Could someone more personally knowlegeable of their unit structure than me include 1st Training Brigade and their subordinate units into this page as being a part of USACAPOC(A)?206.39.41.2 (talk) 21:23, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

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 * I also deleted the 306th PSYOP CO. It has been removed from the inventory as October 2021. The PsyWar (talk) 14:59, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

New draft accepted, 353d Civil Affairs Command
Can someone please review 353d Civil Affairs Command. It is appears to be a substantial spinout of Civil_affairs and a fresh version of the 6 years+ untouched redirected stub 353rd Civil Affairs Command.

I may request a history merge. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 03:36, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

M.Ali
Dear Sir 203.171.122.18 (talk) 13:08, 8 December 2021 (UTC)