ABSTRACT
A year later the author returned to the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA). Not much had changed, except that the Civil Affairs teams had been pulled out of Yemen and northern Djibouti due to political unrest, and the containerized living units had been extended to the edge of the base, almost completely replacing the tents. A new cantina had been built; this one was entirely enclosed and air conditioned instead of open to the air. Otherwise, the base and its operations were mostly unchanged, and the teams were operating in the same areas of the countries in the Horn of Africa in which they had been working within for the past six years. But the civil-military operations shop was concerned about the low number of Humanitarian and Civic Assistance projects that were being nominated and put into the Overseas Humanitarian Assistance Shared Information System nomination and tracking system.
