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By Spc. Grant Okubo
4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light), Multi National Division - Baghdad
FORWARD OPERATING BASE RUSTAMIYAH, Iraq— National Police Transition Team Soldiers supporting 2nd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 1st National Police Division, set up and conducted a weapons firing range for national police at Combat Outpost 799, Feb. 18.
NPTT Soldiers attached to 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light), Multi-National Division – Baghdad, prepared the range to train NPs. They also helped "zero" the NP's AK-47 rifles, said Staff Sgt. Richard Long, a Washington, D.C. native.
NPTT Soldiers trained 20 NP officers, and they hope to train 20 weekly until the entire NP battalion is trained, said Master Sgt. Henning Jensen, who is from Salt Lake City.
Long believes NP officers who were trained at the range are ready and willing to improve. "They show they are willing to learn how to use their weapons better," he said.
The NP officers were highly motivated at the range, which contributed to their improvement on the range. "They were pretty far off (target) when they got here, but we were able to help them tighten their shot groups," said Jensen.
Long has worked previously with this group of NPs and believes they have made significant progress.
"They've improved a lot since the first time we worked with them," observed Jensen, who went on to say they had a lot of good help from Company C, 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment who helped with weapon handling and muzzle awareness. "They (NPs) did real well today."
Long mentioned he was very pleased with efforts of 2nd Bn., 4th Bde., 1st Div. NPTT Soldiers teaching NP officers fundamentals of basic rifle marksmanship - breathing, aiming, trigger squeeze and steady positioning. It is important to integrate all of these key factors to put rounds on target, he emphasized.
To make the training event successful, preparation was key. Jensen and his fellow NPTT Soldiers took one day just to ready the range. One thing they focused on was familiarization with the AK-47, which isn't the same as firing an M-16 or M-4, said Jensen, who reiterated how happy he is with the progress the NPs are making.
| Date Taken: | 02.18.2008 |
| Date Posted: | 02.24.2008 14:15 |
| Story ID: | 16655 |
| Location: | RUSTAMIYAH, IQ |
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