The Army’s decision to close some of its innovation programs closely associated with the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is ill-advised, said a former commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan.
Ex Lab — short for the Expeditionary Lab of the U.S. Army’s Rapid Equipping Force — is nearly 10 years old and has been deployed downrange, mostly in Afghanistan, for almost all its life.
The Army's new Security Force Assistance Brigades will likely give the Rapid Equipping Force plenty of work to do as the units work out what it needs while deployed, according to the REF's director.
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