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Army Sets End-of-Year Window for SFABs to Deploy Outside Afghanistan

Fri, 01/17/2020 - 12:06am

Army Sets End-of-Year Window for SFABs to Deploy Outside Afghanistan by Kyle Rempfer – Army Times

The Army is looking to make good on its promise to align its Security Force Assistance Brigades to geographic combatant commands, the service secretary confirmed this week.

As early as the end of this year, SFAB advisers will be available to go to Asia to support local militaries and court new partners— a cornerstone of the strategy in the region.

“We’re going to have one available for the Pacific,” Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said at a Defense Writers Group breakfast on Wednesday. “I’m sure the [U.S. Indo-Pacific Command] commander will put it in the book and ask for it.”

The Army will regionally align an SFAB to the Indo-Pacific in 2021…

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