He confirmed the training teams will be protected.
An official said the 27 NATO nations not counting the United States had agreed to establish 197 police training teams and 104 army training teams.
Italy, Romania and Greece made promises for military or police training teams.
They train in Arizona and play against extended spring training teams or fall league teams.
"We are still short of 21 training teams for the Afghan Army, and as far as the Afghan police is concerned, we are still short of more than 100 training teams".
This won't take a huge amount of time to plan and often senior managers will see the benefits of training teams as it improves efficiency and morale.
Following minimal training, these units were sent to the front lines with small U.S. training teams of a dozen or so men.
"The training teams will continue their own training and will be ready to redeploy at the first possible opportunity," she told the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
Five Florida cities that faced the possible loss of their spring training teams have received $54.5 million from the state to help renovate ballparks or build new ones.
Likewise, only half of the US personnel required to fill embedded training teams (ETTs) that train the ANA are currently assigned to Afghan units.
Each year during spring training, teams throughout the league borrow minor league players in their organization to fill out rosters spread thin on split-squad days.
