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Army announces new brigades at Fort Hood, Fort Carson and Joint Base Lewis-McChord
These units seem to be created to do what SoF A-Teams do (or did before they got pulled into direct action missions).
We will have to see whether these new brigades will be training up enough on the culture, language, and geopolitics of where they will be assigned.
Also with nobody under the rank of sergeant, I guess the sergeants will get the $#@! duties.
Three new Security Force Assistance Brigades designed to conduct advise-and-assist operations with allied and partner nations have been assigned to bases in Texas, Colorado and Washington, the Army announced Friday.
The Army said the 3rd Security Force Assistance Brigade will be assigned to Fort Hood in Texas, the 4th SFAB at Fort Carson in Colorado and 5th SFAB at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington. These specialized units consist of about 800 soldiers, ranked sergeant and above, with a primary mission to fulfill the Army’s train, advise and assist missions around the globe.
“There will always be a need to help build allied or partnered forces, and the SFABs will take on this critical mission and allow brigade combat teams to concentrate on preparing for potential full-spectrum combat operations against a near-peer adversary” Army Secretary Mark Esper said in a news release.
The three new SFABs are the final three active-duty units joining the 1st SFAB stationed at Fort Benning in Georgia and the 2nd SFAB at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. The National Guard is still considering locations for its SFAB. The Fort Benning brigade is deployed to Afghanistan.
The decision to station the brigades at these three posts was based on strategic considerations including projected time to activate and train an SFAB, presence of senior grade personnel to assign to the unit and required facility costs, the Army said.
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