NFTF - The 404th Civil Affairs Battalion, Counter Illicit Trafficking Training in Tanzania

One of the missions of the 404th Civil Affairs Battalion (CA BN) of the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) is to conduct counter illicit trafficking (CIT) training in Tanzania; it is one of the unit's enduring and perhaps more interesting missions in Africa. Aside from the pure training aspect, the mission demonstrates suitable nesting with the lines of effort of the CJTF-HOA campaign support plan, the benefits of multiagency contribution, specific properties associated with greater success in building partner capabilities/capacity and finally the importance of using the CA BN's civil information management cell to analyze information for situational awareness and to establish an assessments program to evaluate effectiveness in order to modify courses of action as needed.