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The Next Army SFAB Deployments Might Look a Whole Lot Different from Recent Ones

Thu, 05/09/2019 - 3:02am

The Next Army SFAB Deployments Might Look a Whole Lot Different from Recent Ones by Todd South – Army Times

Though the first and second deployments of the Army’s security force assistance brigades might be nearly identical, the next deployments could have a radically different makeup of personnel and type of mission.

 

Brig. Gen. Scott Jackson and other soldiers from the 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade met with reporters Wednesday to talk about their nine-month deployment, which ended in November. The brigade commander gave the deployment a sense of scale…

But they may deploy in a new way.

“I think future deployments throughout the world will be in much smaller packages," Jackson told the Associated Press. “I think a situation where you have a single team in a single country is a likely scenario.”…

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