{"id":88304,"date":"2024-10-15T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2024\/10\/15\/training-partners-give-us-soldiers-better-backup-in-future-combat\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:04:22","slug":"training-partners-give-us-soldiers-better-backup-in-future-combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2024\/10\/15\/training-partners-give-us-soldiers-better-backup-in-future-combat\/","title":{"rendered":"Training partners give US soldiers better backup in future combat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Army\u2019s answer to training partner forces<\/a> \u2014 its security force assistance brigades \u2014 is proving as helpful to the trainers as the students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Col. Brandon Teague, commander of the 5th Security Force Assistance Brigade<\/a>, or SFAB<\/a>, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, or JBLM, Washington, spoke with Army Times on Monday at the Association of the U.S. Army\u2019s Annual Meeting and Exposition about the brigade\u2019s work in the Pacific and how it\u2019s growing the Army\u2019s capacity to operate in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For instance, the Thai military has been working in recent years with the SFAB on training and maintaining its Stryker units through an SFAB partnership using a specially trained team of Stryker advisors from the 7th Infantry Division, also at JBLM, and a unit from the Washington Army National Guard, Teague said.<\/p>\n\n\n\t