The primary objective of the G-5 was to further military effort by meeting emergency needs and maintaining civilian institutions.

The country's civilian institutions are also being eroded by its own military.

"They hit a civilian institution, and there was no one even inside it," he insisted.

Although the university became a coeducational civilian institution in 1955, it still maintains an active military presence.

Programs run from 1-3 years and include training at either military or civilian institutions.

Their job is to aid in creating and strengthening civilian institutions.

They said they would return to the barracks once "the building of civilian institutions starts."

The Pentagon itself addressed racial tensions so well after 1975 that the military became a model for civilian institutions.

Support for the army also undermines Colombia's precarious civilian institutions.

By then my brother had been moved to a civilian institution and he was up and dressed.