Outside the bureaucracy, looking in.
By Tom Shoop
Thursday, July 17, 2:10 p.m. ET:
Military service members aren't the only ones stepping up to deploy to hot spots around the world at a moment's notice. With the launch of the Civilian Response Corps <http://get.govexec-media.com/portal/wts/ccmcfOaC-taqmt6LyuE-buwuqOc> yesterday, civilian federal employees such as diplomats, development specialists, public health officials, law enforcement and corrections officers, engineers, economists, lawyers, public administrators and agronomists are officially volunteering to go to countries in crisis.
Full column: http://blogs.govexec.com/fedblog/2008/07/deploying_civilians_1.php
