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By 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division
FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq – Iraqi teachers received basic first aid training from coalition force medics, April 17, 20, 22 and 23, at nine Arab Jabour and al-Buaytha schools.
Teachers employed at the schools asked Soldiers from the 415th Civil Affairs Battalion, currently attached to 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, if they could teach them first aid techniques in case of emergencies.
The 415th CA team coordinated the training with medics from 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 2nd BCT, 3rd Inf. Div., at Combat Outpost Murray.
Staff Sgts. Joshua Bundy and Jason Doyle, both civil affairs non-commissioned officers, worked with 1-30th Inf. Regt. medics Staff Sgt. Jason Magee and Spc. Elizabeth Huggins to come up with a curriculum for the training.
"We wanted to provide the teachers with the proper first aid training for school yard injuries," said Bundy, a native of Hastings, Mich.
He said the teachers were receptive to the training and asked if the medics could come back to the school and teach them more advanced techniques.
"We are glad that we could assist the local Iraqi teachers and improve their medical knowledge," said Magee, from Elbridge, N.Y. "This will allow them to better care for the children in their classrooms."
Donations from an American company will supply the schools with first aid kits to be left at the school. Emergency Medical Products, an Internet medical supply company based in Wisconsin, donated more than 60 first aid kits.
Bundy said plans are being made to give the teachers an advanced first aid course.
| Date Taken: | 04.28.2008 |
| Date Posted: | 04.29.2008 16:02 |
| Story ID: | 18911 |
| Location: | ISKANDARIYAH, IQ |
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