Milley pushes to stand up 'train, advise, assist brigades'

By Courtney McBride / June 23, 2016 at 12:21 PM
The Army’s fiscal year 2018 program objective memorandum will include plans to introduce train, advise and assist brigades that would resemble "the chain of command of infantry brigades," according to the service's chief of staff. Gen. Mark Milley said June 23 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies that while the Army is on pace to draw down to a total force of 980,000 by 2018, "history tells us that depending on the situation, we might have to have...

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