attached to each brigade, won t be outside the wire, working with the afghan military in a role more of a counter-terror advising the afghan army. i think it s a shot across the bow and pat tretraeus theory. what does this do to the troops as far as exposing them to greater danger and also what does it do to the budget? well, if we re going to go to advise train and assist mission in 2013 in, iraq we had 17 b brigades on the ground. when we went to an advise position in iraq, we went down to 5 combat brigades. they are wrong when they say u.s. troops aren t in combat, they are because people are shooting them. they are conducting a mission safer, they are on the base, training the foreign military, but there is distinct challenges