Editing Military advisor (section)

==United States military advisors==
{{See also|Military Assistance Advisory Group}}
<blockquote> Developing capabilities and increasing capacity through advising is an operation the U.S. Army has conducted for more than one hundred years. The Army has performed advisory missions to increase the capability and capacity of foreign militaries from the Philippine Insurrection at the beginning of the 20th century to more recent conflicts in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.<ref>{{cite web|last1= Jaworski|first1=Pace|title= Conventional Advising: A Tactical Leader's Assessment of a Strategic Initiative|url= https://www.benning.army.mil/armor/eARMOR/content/issues/2013/JAN_MAR/Articles/Jaworski.pdf|website=The Cavalry & Armor Journal, JAN 2013|publisher=US Army Maneuver Center of Excellence|access-date=25 October 2016}}</ref>
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===Advisors in Vietnam===
[[File:NARA 111-CCV-423-CC39152 Special Forces advisor providing M79 instruction to CIDG trainee 1967.jpg|thumb|A [[U.S. Army Special Forces]] advisor instructing a Vietnamese [[Civilian Irregular Defense Group program|Civilian Irregular Defense Group]] trainee on operating an [[M79 grenade launcher]] during the [[Vietnam War]], 1967]]
In the early 1960s, elements of the [[U.S. Army Special Forces]] and [[Echo 31]] went to [[South Vietnam]] as military advisors to train and assist the [[Army of the Republic of Vietnam|South Vietnamese Army]] (ARVN) for impending actions against the [[People's Army of Vietnam| North Vietnamese Army]] (PAVN). [[U.S. Marines] also filled a significant role as advisors to Vietnamese forces.<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://covan.org/ |title= United States Marine Corps Advisor's Association |access-date= 2014-01-30 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140118175016/http://covan.org/ |archive-date= 2014-01-18 |url-status= dead }}</ref>

===Avisors during War on Terror===
Combat advisors served during the U.S. [[War on Terror]]. They were designated as [[Embedded Training Teams]] (ETTs) in [[Afghanistan]] and as [[Military Transition Teams]] (MTTs) in [[Iraq]]. The soldiers and marines lived with their Afghan and Iraqi counterparts (often in very austere and stoic{{clarify|date=September 2020}} conditions) in remote combat outposts, often a great distance away from any U.S. or coalition support.

ETTs and MTTs were composed primarily of U.S. Army, [[Army National Guard|National Guard]], and Marine Corps personnel with a background in [[combat arms]]. U.S. [[United States Army Reserve|Army Reserve]], [[United States Air Force|Air Force]], and [[United States Navy|Navy]] personnel served as advisors in logistics and other support roles. The advisors on the ground in infantry or commando units of the ANA ([[Afghan National Army]]) or the [[Iraqi Army]] were soldiers or marines with experience in combat arms. U.S. Army Special Forces and [[Navy SEALS]] also worked with the Afghan Army or Special Forces and with the Iraqi Army, but most combat advisors were infantry and combat-arms soldiers and marines.

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The Combat Advisor Mission Defined. The combat advisor mission requires US officers and NCOs to teach, coach and mentor host nation (HN) security force counterparts. This enables the rapid development of our counterparts' leadership capabilities; helps develop command and control (C2) and operational capabilities at every echelon; allows direct access to Coalition Forces (CF) enablers to enhance HN security force counterinsurgency (COIN) operations; and incorporates CF lethal and nonlethal effects on the battlefield.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sill-www.army.mil/firesbulletin/2008/jul_sep_2008/Jul_Sep_2008_pages_38_41.pdf|title=Preparing Air Defenders for the Combat Advisor Mission|date=2008|last=Scott|first=Cory N.}}</ref>
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Security Forces Assistance (SFA) defines a more in-depth method of embedded mentorship. MTTs have fallen{{when|date=September 2020}} into disuse with shifts in focus and doctrine. Specifically, previous MTTs were drawn from soldiers from separate units, often on an ''ad hoc'' basis. SFATs, on the other hand, provide all personnel from organic, modular [[brigade combat teams]] rather than supplying personnel piecemeal from various Army units. By design, those teams are composed of a company command team and selected leaders from one command. The SFAT concept has been in place since 2012 with a "by, with and through" method of combat advising. Current Advisory Teams are trained at [[Fort Polk]], [[Louisiana]], at the Advisor Academy, "Tigerland."<ref>{{cite web|last1= Jaworski|first1= Pace|title= Conventional Advising: A Tactical Leader's Assessment of a Strategic Initiative|url= https://www.benning.army.mil/armor/eARMOR/content/issues/2013/JAN_MAR/Articles/Jaworski.pdf|website= The Cavalry & Armor Journal, JAN 2013|publisher= US Army Maneuver Center of Excellence|access-date= 25 October 2016}}
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