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.
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.
- ^ 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade Archived March 10, 2022, at the Wayback Machine, The U.S. Army YouTube Channel, dated 6 March 2018, last accessed 9 March 2022
- ^ "Operational and Organizational Concept" (PDF). Fort Benning. April 4, 2018. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 22, 2018. Retrieved May 22, 2018.