Lieutenant Colonel Paul G. Moses began his military career in 1980 as a U.S. Army Infantry officer, serving in mechanized and airborne assignments. He later held operations and training roles at the unit and staff level, including work with infantry and mortar units, before transitioning into the Army Reserve and later into Civil Affairs.

In 2005, as a Civil Affairs officer, he deployed to Afghanistan and served in the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT). During this period, Kandahar functioned as a joint civil-military hub focused on governance support, reconstruction coordination, and stabilization efforts. The PRT Civil Affairs element typically operated in small, highly integrated teams of roughly a dozen personnel, drawn from U.S. Army Reserve Civil Affairs units and task-organized under a higher Civil Affairs command structure. These teams were responsible for executing local governance engagement, coordinating infrastructure and public works projects such as schools and utilities, and working directly with Afghan provincial authorities and coalition partners to support stabilization objectives. Within this structure, he served as part of a forward Civil Affairs team supporting PRT operations in Kandahar, contributing to civil-military coordination and reconstruction efforts in the region.

Lieutenant Colonel Paul G. Moses passed away on October 9, 2023, in Hamlin, New York, after a long career of military service spanning both active duty and reserve components of the United States Army.

Citations:

–https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/bowmansville-ny/paul-moses-11491571

–https://pgrny.org/more/pgrny-completed-missions/r1-2-honor-mission-ltc-paul-g-moses-us-army-us-army-reserve-ret-mon-10-16-2023-corfu-ny

-https://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/467/2022452.html (article about Major Blomquist who deployed and served with LTC Moses, he outlined the role the team would’ve performed in Afghanistan).