Fort Benning: Combat, Cultural Readiness Key For New Army Trainers

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November 7th, 2017

U.S. Army soldiers hone their long-distance marksmanship skills as they train at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia. The soldiers are members of the Army’s new Security Force Assistance Brigade. The Army’s new training brigade is looking beyond traditional best practices to see if soldiers meet the cultural and personality criteria to train local forces in dramatically different cultures.

John Bazemore / Associated Press

Army Col. Scott Jackson reaches out and grasps the hand of a male soldier. Their fingers interlaced, Jackson talks to the soldier for a few minutes and then asks if he feels uncomfortable. The soldier’s answer: “A little bit.”‘

That could be a problem.

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