Security Force Assistance Brigade

For the British Army brigade, see 11th Security Force Assistance Brigade.

A Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) (pronounced ESS-fab) 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 state armed forces. SFABs are intended to reduce the burden of such irregular operations on conventionally focused forces, allowing conventional manoeuvre divisions and brigades to focus on decisive, regular battle.

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 Army National Guard units and given additional training at the Military Advisor Training Academy (MATA) at Fort Benning, Georgia.

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