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CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE SPEICHER, Iraq - As part of the process of transitioning to stability operations in United States Division - North, 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division "Ready First" was re-designated to an "Advise and Assist Brigade" effective May 1.
An Advise and Assist Brigade, or AAB, is essentially a U.S. Army Brigade Combat Team whose organization has been modified to conduct stability operations. An AAB has additional senior leaders experienced in staff processes and able to execute distributed command and control, who are specially trained for an advisory role with a foreign force. Here, the AAB will advise, assist, and train Iraqi Security Forces (ISF), both military and police, as well as support Provincial Reconstruction Team operations. The brigade is already manned with 17 additional field grade officers who currently serve in the unit's nine Stability-Transition Teams (S-TT). These officers have previously been trained in the specialized mission essential tasks, such as cultural and language training, required of most S-TT members.
Ready First came to Iraq with much of the AAB capabilities and structure already in place. The equipment requirements are similar between a Brigade Combat Team and an AAB. The biggest differences between the two organizations are additional S-TT personnel and a reorganization of the unit's assigned Soldiers for a stability operations mission versus a combat mission.
While the Ready First Brigade meets the description of an AAB now, over the next three months they will continue to refine their unit structure and reconfigure for stability operations by sending some units home and reorganizing other units who are already in Kirkuk Province to execute this mission.
This will make the second AAB in USD-N, an area that covers the seven northernmost provinces in Iraq, with Kirkuk province being the home of Ready First.
The Ready First brigade's final transition and re-designation to an AAB reflects our understanding of the operational environment and fundamental changes in the role of the U.S. military in the near future.
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