Army Col. Bill Mason, U.S. Army Central Command chief of civil-military operations, explains military support to civilian authorities to Egyptian navy Commodore Alaa Eldin Mokhtar Abouzeid, deputy chief of civil affairs and psychological operations for the Egyptian military, during the 2012 Egypt-United States Military Information Exchange, June 3, at Fort Meade, Md. The exchange, supported by U.S. Army Central Command, the 2nd Psychological Operations Group, and the 352nd Civil Affairs Command (Airborne), brought together civil affairs and military information support operations personnel from the two nations to discuss civil support and disaster response.