Army Considering Permanent Deployments of Trainers for Foreign Troops

By Sebastian Sprenger / December 21, 2007 at 5:00 AM
Army officials are preparing a recommendation for service leaders to permanently station a new type of Army unit at each of the geographical combatant commands to conduct the training of foreign security forces during peacetime, Army sources tell InsideDefense.com. Officials at the ground service's Combined Arms Center, which is part of the Training and Doctrine Command, sent a design proposal for a "Theater Military Advisory and Assistance Group-Future" to TRADOC headquarters earlier this month. Officials there submitted the recommendation to...

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