{"id":12817,"date":"2017-10-11T16:56:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T16:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/10\/11\/army-offers-automatic-promotions-to-security-force-assistance-brigade-volunteers\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:41:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:41:55","slug":"army-offers-automatic-promotions-to-security-force-assistance-brigade-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2017\/10\/11\/army-offers-automatic-promotions-to-security-force-assistance-brigade-volunteers\/","title":{"rendered":"Army offers automatic promotions to Security Force Assistance Brigade volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Army is preparing to graduate the first class of the Military Training Adviser Academy and stand up its first Security Force Assistance Brigade. To attract talent for the next five planned brigades, there are now new incentives to volunteer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the Army first launched the plan for SFABs earlier this year, noncommissioned officers who signed up were offered $5,000 upon graduation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, according to the Army\u2019s deputy chief of staff for personnel, there are big promotion opportunities in store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn this first iteration, we have suspended the need for professional military education\u201d for NCOs who have been selected for promotion but haven\u2018t made it to the required schools, Lt. Gen. Thomas Seamands, the Army G-1, told Army Times on Wednesday. \u201cIf they\u2019re otherwise qualified, they will get promoted, and when they return from a deployment, they\u2019ll get their professional military education.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This suspends a 2016 regulation requiring soldiers to attend in-residence leadership training before pinning on new rank.<\/p>\n\n\n\t