{"id":89954,"date":"2018-04-15T11:25:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T15:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=89954"},"modified":"2018-04-13T11:30:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T15:30:20","slug":"senators-schumer-gillibrand-and-congresswoman-stefanik-urge-army-secretary-and-chief-of-staff-to-choose-fort-drum-and-north-country-for-new-u-s-army-security-force-assistance-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=89954","title":{"rendered":"Senators Schumer, Gillibrand and Congresswoman Stefanik urge army secretary and chief of staff to choose Fort Drum and North Country for new U.S. Army Security Force Assistance Brigade"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kirsten Gillibrand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Senators Schumer, Gillibrand and Congresswoman Stefanik urge army secretary and chief of staff to choose Fort Drum and North Country for new U.S. Army Security Force Assistance Brigade<\/strong><\/p>\n

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik wrote a letter to urge Secretary of the Army Mark Esper and Chief of Staff of the Army General Mark Milley to choose Fort Drum and the 10th Mountain Division as the next location for the newest U.S. Army Security Force Assistance Brigade.<\/p>\n

Fort Drum and the 10th Mountain Division have the capacity and expertise to support the SFAB\u2019s train and assist mission. The 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum has provided a number of personnel to fill the ranks of the 1st SFAB from Fort Benning and has deployed thousands more soldiers to Fort Polk to support training and certification requirements for the 1st SFAB.<\/p>\n

Fort Drum, the largest single-site employer in New York, is home to the U.S. Army’s 10th<\/sup> Mountain Division, the Army\u2019s most-deployed light infantry division. Fort Drum has a long and proud tradition of defending America, training our troops since 1908.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe write in regard to the forthcoming assignment of the U.S. Army\u2019s new Security Force Assistance Brigades,\u201d the members wrote. \u201cAs the Congressional delegation representing Fort Drum and the surrounding community, we have heard that the Army is nearing a decision on the placement of its newest SFABs and we would like to draw your attention to the benefits of locating one of them at Fort Drum.<\/p>\n

\u201cFort Drum and the 10th Mountain Division have the existing capacity, experience and infrastructure to support a new SFAB.\u00a0Fort Drum and the 10th Mountain Division have supported a variety of Security Force Assistance and Advise and Assist missions during the past several years\u2014sending Brigade Combat Teams around the world to accomplish complex missions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gillibrand, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was joined on the letter by U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) and U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY-21).<\/p>\n

The full text of the letter is available\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senators Schumer, Gillibrand and Congresswoman Stefanik urge army secretary and chief of staff to choose Fort Drum and North Country for new U.S. Army Security Force Assistance Brigade U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik wrote a letter to urge Secretary of the Army Mark Esper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,21571],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-story","category-veterans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Gillibrand.jpg?fit=224%2C221&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-noS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}