When President Barack Obama named Lt. General Karl Eikenberry to be U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, few, if any, realized at the time that the decision represented just the first of hundreds of civilian positions in Afghanistan that soon will be manned by military personnel. Because the President wants a “dramatic” increase in civilian aid and development workers in Afghanistan, the U.S. government must locate specialists in areas like small-business management, legal affairs, veterinary medicine, public sanitation, counter-narcotics efforts and air traffic control. But the State Department and other federal offices don’t have sufficient trained personnel in all of these areas ready to ship overseas, thus the administration is turning to the Defense Department, and, more specifically, military reservists, to fill these slots.