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18 June 2020 ATP 4-90 B-1 Appendix B Security Force Assistance Brigade This appendix provides background information about the security force assistance brigade (SFAB), its role, and characteristics. It describes how the SFAB provides training and mentorship to partnered security forces through security cooperation activities. Its BSB has a dual role to provide direct support to the brigade for logistics and to train and mentor logistics forces of partnered armed forces. B-1. Security force assistance has always played a vital role in the Army’s history. The background nature of security force assistance operations relegates them to obscurity behind the large conventional military battles throughout history. SFABs develop the capability and capacity of partnered security forces through security cooperation activities to strengthen a host government’s ability to defend itself from external and internal threats. These brigades are primarily a shaping force to build capacity in foreign security forces through training and mentoring and provide partners access to multinational capabilities. SFABs allow BCTs to focus on combined arms maneuver and prevents the breaking up of brigade combat teams to execute security cooperation activities. B-2. The Army SFAB is the Army’s dedicated conventional organization for executing SFA around the world. While each SFAB has a regional focus, its distinct capabilities enable it to perform wherever needed with minimal cultural and regional orientation. B-3. The SFAB deploys to develop foreign security force capabilities to prevent conflicts, as a deterrent to shape the environment, and when necessary, to bolster foreign security forces, also known as FSF, to a level that it can win and establish a secure environment. The SFAB is designed to be employed as individual teams with the brigade headquarters exercising C2 from home station, with larger echelons deploying and controlling operations in country, or by deploying the entire brigade into a theater. B-4. SFABs develop the capability and capacity of partnered security forces through security cooperation activities to strengthen a host government’s ability to defend itself. These brigades build capacity in foreign security forces through training and mentoring and provide partners access to multinational capabilities. B-5. A SFAB executes operations in support of combatant commander’s objectives to advise and assist foreign security forces by teaching, coaching, mentoring, and providing direct access to multinational capabilities. These capabilities include fires and fire support coordination, sustainment, communications, intelligence, and close air support. The SFAB must be prepared to conduct combat operations to facilitate partnered military and/or security force missions to support host nation and/or United States’ objectives. For more information about SFABs, see ATP 3-96.1, Security Force Assistance Brigade. SECURITY FORCE ASSISTANCE BRIGADE TASK ORGANIZATION B-6. Each SFAB, both armored and infantry variants, has two maneuver battalions, a cavalry squadron, a field artillery battalion, an engineer battalion, a military intelligence company, a signal company, a support battalion, and an HHC. B-7. Each maneuver battalion and cavalry squadron has an HHC or troop and three maneuver companies or troops. The field artillery battalion has a headquarters and headquarters battery and two field artillery batteries. The engineer battalion has one HHC and two engineer companies. They also have a military intelligence company and a signal company. The support battalion has a HSC, which includes a small distribution, maintenance, and medical treatment section. It also has two logistics advisor companies. B-8. The armor maneuver battalions have two armor companies and one infantry company. For the infantry SFAB, both ground maneuver battalions are light-infantry based with three light infantry companies. The