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Security Force Assistance Brigade
Specialized type of United States Army unit / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the British Army brigade, see 11th Security Force Assistance Brigade.
A Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) (pronounced ESS-fab[1]) is a specialized United States Army unit formed to conduct security force assistance (SFA) missions: to train, advise, assist, enable and accompany operations with allied and partner nations.[2] SFABs are intended to reduce the burden of such operations on conventionally-organized Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs), allowing BCTs to focus on fighting near-peer threats.
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Designed on the model of a standard infantry brigade combat team, SFABs are composed of roughly 800 personnel, primarily commissioned and non-commissioned officers selected from regular and National Guard Army units and given additional training at the Military Advisor Training Academy (MATA) at Fort Moore, Georgia.