The 3d Cavalry Regiment has been training, advising, and assisting the ANA since July 2014. This trip to the United States will offer the Afghans a better picture of what U.S. training looks like.
The ANA's 203rd Corps Commander, Maj. Gen. Mohammad Sharif Yaftali, is the highest ranking member of the group. In October 2014 Coalition leadership deemed Yaftali's corps capable enough to operate on their own without daily U.S. and Coalition assistance. Currently Yaftali's corps only receives expeditionary advisory visits a couple times a month in order to discuss progression of his corps.
The tour of Fort Benning will include a visit to basic combat training for new enlistees, combatives training, officer candidate school, basic officer leader's course, the non-commissioned officer's academy, and the maneuver captain's career course.
"This trip will give the Afghans a different perspective on their own soldiers' training," said Provencher. "Due to different training environments the ANA training is not an exact mirror of the United States, but there are similarities, just as U.S. leaders go to numerous other countries to participate in developmental schools and training exercises to give a more worldly look to improve our own methods."
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