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Sgt. Luis Delgadillo
2nd BCT, 3rd Inf. Div.
FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq – Soldiers assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga., trained Concerned Local Citizens to be better protectors of their communities at FOB Falcon Nov. 13 and 14.
Military police and a combat medic of the 153rd Military Police Company, Delaware National Guard, assigned to the 2nd BCT, gave the group of 30 CLCs classes on first aid, human rights, self defense, weapons handling and fixed site security among other classes.
As is normal for training events involving concerned citizens, in between classes a soccer ball was produced and both groups, instructors and students, began a pick-up game of soccer.
The two-day training helped keep CLCs up to speed on their skills as the first line of defense for their communities against insurgents and it gave them a head start on training they would receive in an Iraqi Police Academy.
The training provided by the MPs also helped bring the CLCs one step closer to being accepted as recruits for the Iraqi Police Academy.
Though there was much information to be absorbed for only two days of training, Soldiers of the 153rd MP Co. hoped that the CLCs internalized some key concepts.
"I'm hoping they picked up the fact that when they're setting up security for a position somewhere that's going to be long term, they have to think like the enemy," said Staff Sgt. John W. Case III, an MP with the 153rd MP Co.
Case said when volunteers begin to set up their checkpoints they must try and look for weak points the enemy might exploit and then reinforce them.
Along with the training in law enforcement that the Soldiers of the Delaware National Guard received from the Army, many bring with them decades of experience in law enforcement through civilian careers.
Case said that by motivating the CLCs to care for their communities they had a better chance at surviving their own neighborhoods and one day attend the Iraqi Police Academy.
"I look at this as the only way that I'm not going to be back here in four years," he said.
A concerned citizen at the training said that the training was beneficial and would serve them well as they worked to protect their communities and families.
Though no Iraqi police recruitment drive is planned for the immediate future, different groups of Hawr Rajab CLCs will be attending the training throughout the week said Spc. David Stevens, a military police specialist with the 153rd MP Co.
| Date Taken: | 11.16.2007 |
| Date Posted: | 11.19.2007 14:29 |
| Story ID: | 14041 |
| Location: | ISKANDARIYAH, IQ |
| Web Views: | 245 |
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