The middle-aged remnants of the old hooligan firms rub shoulders with members of the official supporters' club, many of them women, and members of the growing corporate brigade who take advantage of hospitality packages.
There's the growing anti-gluten brigade of people who, with celiac disease or not, believe they should avoid wheat for health reasons.
During the 1980s, émigrés from Park Slope and other brownstone havens began slowly trickling in, though many members of longtime Irish families remain among the ever-growing brigade of young families.
If so, the big six suppliers face assault on two fronts because the switching brigade is growing in number.
"Dozens of Iraqis are joining us, and our brigade is growing day by day," Ahmad al-Hassani, a 25-year-old Iraqi fighter, said by telephone from Damascus.
The brigade grew to a size of 6,100 personnel in of three brigade headquarters companies, seven battalions, six separate companies and nine detachments.
His case underscores the growing concern about armed brigades of former rebel fighters in the Libyan capital who rushed to fill the power vacuum after Colonel Qaddafi's forces fled more than a month ago.
Those monthly assessments, published on a quarterly basis in SIGAR's reports, found improvements in the readiness of the Afghan army brigades but growing gaps in Afghan police units' proficiency.
The active-duty Army end-strength is scheduled to reach 547,000 by then, as the Army's fighting force will grow to 48 brigade combat teams from 33 in 2003.
