I wish Bob would get out to the embassies in some of the countries we need to engage in.

Right now, BY LAW, the SAOs are limited in size to 6 folk, except where expressly authorized to be bigger. Not goin' down that MAC-V rabbithole again.

In some of the countries, the security assistance function is actually performed by a Foreign Service Officer as an additional duty.

All that said -- as I posted elsewhere -- TMAAG did not scratch the itch, for many of the reasons that Bob Mentions.