Army Eyes Creation of BCTs Tailored to Security Cooperation Missions

By Sebastian Sprenger / July 3, 2008 at 5:00 AM
Army leaders are eyeing the creation of "Security Cooperation Brigade Combat Teams" charged with training foreign security forces and participating in international operations and exercises, according to an internal Army document. As envisioned, the units would be assigned to the Army components of geographic combatant commands while deployed overseas, according to the June document. Pentagon leaders would bestow the security cooperation label on a brigade combat team as the unit enters the reset phase of the Army Force Generation cycle...

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