Lt. Col. Scott Hooper, commander of 3rd Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, meets with real Iraqis role-playing an Iraqi general, a mayor and a police chief during key-leader engagement training during May 2009 at the Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, La. The brigade is training to become the first "production-line" advise-and-assist brigade in Iraq assigned the mission of security-force assistance.