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The fix?<br\/><br\/>The security force assistance brigade, a 529-man team of officers and senior noncommissioned officers, tasked specifically to train allied forces to help them maintain their own peace.<br\/><br\/>&#8220;By creating the structure and manning the structure of an SFAB, you will keep the brigade combat team in its entirety for a mission and have the SFAB available to do what we have brigades doing now,&#8221; Human Resources Command boss Maj. Gen. 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The first one will go to U.S. Central Command, Seamands said, but eventually each SFAB will be aligned to a regional combatant commander.<br\/><br\/>So while Iraq and Afghanistan are high priorities for SFABs, the brigades could deploy to support local forces in places like Europe, Africa and South America.<br\/><br\/>It&#8217;s similar to Special Forces training missions, but will include the full range of brigade capabilities, from infantry to logistics.<br\/><br\/>&#8220;For example, Special Forces will go in, in small numbers, to train in Africa,&#8221; Seamands said. &#8220;The intent is [the SFAB] will deploy and teach our allies how to do fire support, to do intelligence, to do medical things to make those armies stronger.&#8221;<br\/><br\/>The brigade and battalion commanders have been chosen by Army leadership, he said, and now the brigade is looking for hundreds more to fill out companies that will have three teams of four trainers each and a headquarters.<br\/><br\/>For that reason, the Army is looking for officers and senior NCOs of all backgrounds. 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