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Training team commands are now key developmental positions.(CAREER NOTES: Officer)

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Currently, there are more than 2,000 officers serving on transition teams advising, training and supporting the Iraqi and Afghan security forces.

To ensure that the best possible officers are selected to serve on these teams, the Chief of Staff of the Army has designated the captain and major positions on these teams as key developmental positions, thus placing those positions on par with company commands, S3 and executive-officer positions in other units.

Additionally, there are 38 positions for lieutenant colonels who have been designated to receive battalion-command credit. These positions are the team-chief positions on teams that are directly aligned with brigade-sized Iraqi and Afghan units of the army, police and border guards. The team chief is responsible for the training, employment and support of an Iraqi or Afghan brigade directly involved in combat operations.

The selection of these 38 officers will be a competitive process. Officers who are selected for transition-team positions will receive credit for 16 months of battalion command as a DA centrally selected commander in the operations category. These positions will be open to all eligible officers in the maneuver, fires and effects, or MFE, branches, including Special Forces, Psychological Operations and Civil Affairs.

For the training team commands that are available in 2009, each ...

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