 From Soldiers Radio and Television, this is the Army Today, a daily feature from around the globe. You're going to line your back tire with this front tire. The Security Force Assistance Team, or SFATS, are teams of highly trained officers and non-commissioned officers who will assist and mentor Afghan national security forces as they conduct security operations. The SFATS are currently training at the Joint Readiness Training Center, or JRTC, in Fort Polk, Louisiana, in preparation for a spring deployment. What we've done is taken the JRTC and Fort Polk training area, and we're replicating RC South during this exercise with the 47 SFAT teams that we have. The facilities at JRTC are very realistic and include role players who occupy the training villages as though they live and work there. We have former Afghan military, local role players, cultural role players. We have people that have come from numerous units to support this mission. The training areas the SFATS are using may look a lot like Afghanistan, but it's the experience and guidance of Soldiers deployed that gives the training a real world edge. What's been most beneficial is the subject matter experts that the RC South headquarters, which is the 82nd Airborne Division, provided to really give us the most current look at the TTPs and the doctrine that we're passing along to the SFATS. Although JRTC replicates the battlefield through rigorous realistic and relevant training, it is just a simulation of what life is like in Afghanistan, but it gives the teams a better perspective on how to conduct their missions downrange. Army Sergeant Jennifer Rooks, 43rd Public Affairs Detachment, Fort Polk, Louisiana. That's the Army Today from Soldiers Radio and Television.