Specialized Administrative Sections

Several hundred small volunteer teams led by Arabic speaking junior officers with local knowledge.

The well funded SAS program covered public health, education, building, agricultural assistance and justice administration[3][4] It also provided local counter-insurgency intelligence and security forces liaison.

The officers were known by their headgear as "kepis bleus" and were men serving in remote areas and were protected by a handful of local Moghazni auxiliaries.

General tasks of the leaders of these sections was published in a presidential decree by the French President Charles de Gaulle No.

[6] Officers wore a sky blue Kepi and dark red shoulder boards.