 The Army component of EETAF would be a Brigade Combat Team (BCT) rotating on a four to six-month basis from the continental U.S. or Europe.The March 2006 Strategic Planning Guidance modified the presence requirement from a full-time BCT to a “periodic rotational force.”

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signed the Defense Cooperation Agreement with Romania in 2005 and Bulgaria in 2006 dictating the stipulations of the two bi-lateral agreements.The EETAF concept described a two-phased process to “start small and grow” the objective capability.