95th Civil Affairs Brigade

95th Civil Affairs Brigade (Airborne)
95th Civil Affairs Brigade shoulder sleeve insignia
Active	March 16, 2006 – present
Country	United States of America
Branch	United States Army
Type	Civil Affairs
Role	Supporting military commanders by working with civil authorities and civilian populations in the commander’s area of operations during peace and war.
Size	Brigade
Part of	United States Special Operations Command United States Army Special Operations Command
Garrison/HQ	Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Motto(s)	"Advise, Support, Stabilize"
Commanders
Current commander	Colonel Jason Slider
Insignia
Distinctive Unit Insignia
Beret flash
Background trimming

The 95th Civil Affairs Brigade (Airborne) is a civil affairs brigade of the United States Army based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The concept for a civil affairs brigade had been under consideration for years, but was finally approved as a result of the 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review. The 95th Civil Affairs Brigade makes up a significant portion of the four percent of civil affairs soldiers in the active component.

Tracing its lineage to a military government group that was active after World War II, the 95th Civil Affairs Brigade was not officially activated until 2006, and remained a provisional unit until 2007. Its creation was part of a U.S. Army plan to increase civil affairs units overall.

The 95th Civil Affairs Brigade is based at Fort Bragg

The brigade commands five subordinate battalions all headquartered at Fort Bragg along with the brigade's Headquarters and Headquarters Company:

The brigade traces its lineage back to the 95th Military Government Group, activated 25 August 1945. The group was assigned to Japan to provide provisional government duties during the post-World War II occupation of Japan. Following its brief assignment, the group was inactivated on 30 June 1946.

The group was reactivated again just prior to the Korean War, on 29 October 1948 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. It was dispatched to the Korean peninsula where it remained during three campaigns of the war, receiving three campaign streamers. However, as the war became a long, drawn out stalemate and with no need for the military government group, it was deactivated in Korea on 28 October 1951 in the middle of the war.

The group was again activated on 9 February 1955 at Camp Gordon, Georgia and reorganized into a civil affairs unit. It was formally redesignated the 95th Civil Affairs Group on 25 June 1959. It received a distinctive unit insignia on 27 March 1969. After almost 20 years of active service, the group had seen no deployments to any conflicts or contingencies with the US Army, including never seeing deployment to the Vietnam War. Thus, the group was inactivated on 21 December 1974 at Fort Bragg.