Group, formed in 1997 and consisting primarily of Territorial Army personnel. Most personnel are members of the Royal Engineers and the group is administered by the Central Volunteer Headquarters Royal Engineers (CVHQ RE), based at Gibraltar Barracks, in Minley, Surrey. Members of the group have been deployed operationally in Bosnia, Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia, East Timor, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq. In Afghanistan, the tactical level unit was called Military Stabilisation Support Team, and they usually worked for the Provincial Reconstruction Team. The British Army first formed CA units in 1943, and by August 1944 there were 3,600 CA personnel in France with the 21st Army Group. The Netherlands The Royal Netherlands Army's Civil Affairs unit is 1 CIMIC Battalion. The staff consist of regular soldiers. Other personnel are reservists with a civilian occupation. Members of the battalion have been deployed to Bosnia; Macedonia; Africa and Afghanistan. The unit is, as of early 2009, based in Apeldoorn. Civil affairs in popular media A Bell for Adano (movie) and A Bell for Adano (Pulitzer Prize winning novel by John Hersey) depict a U.S. military government officer in occupied Italy during World War II. The Teahouse of the August Moon (play), The Teahouse of the August Moon (novel), and The Teahouse of the August Moon (film) depict U.S. military government personnel in occupied Okinawa during World War II. These were also adapted into the 1970 musical Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen. Three Kings (1999 film) the characters Barlow, Vig, and Elgin wear the USACAPOC patch, and Barlow identifies himself as a Civil Affairs Reservist. Footnotes References Sorley, Lewis, A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam, King, R. Alan, Twice Armed: an American soldier's battle for hearts and minds in Iraq St. Paul, MN : Zenith Press, 2006. plus Book Lecture at the Pritzker Military Library on June 12, 2008 Cleveland, Charles T., Benjamin Jensen, Susan Bryant, and Arnel P. David, Military Strategy in the 21st Century: People, Connectivity, and Competition New York, NY : Cambria Press, 2018. Book Site External links U.S. Army Civil Affairs & Psychological Operations Command (Airborne), U.S. Army Reserve Official Website Civil Affairs Association US Army Field Manual 41-10 Civil Affairs Operations Friends Of Civil Affairs (FOCA) – a non-profit organization dedicated to the soldiers and families of 95th Civil Affairs Brigade (Airborne), United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC). Military science