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TARIN KOT, AFGHANISTAN – Afghans in Uruzgan province have stepped up amid the looming withdrawal of coalition forces and are training each other to defeat the insurgent’s weapon of choice, the improvised explosive device.
The Afghan National Security Forces, which is comprised of the Afghan National Army, Afghan National Police and National Directorate of Security, have been trained by coalition partners for years and began taking the lead in these training courses in 2012.
“Most of our ANP students in Tarin Kot had a basic knowledge of what we were instructing, but they just didn’t know how to put it into action,” said Antonio Jager, an instructor with Engility Corporation, a Raytheon-led Warrior Training Alliance program contractor.
The C-IED Awareness course at Multinational Base Tarin Kot, Afghanistan, is taught by ANA and ANP personnel. The five-day course covers basic and advanced search techniques.
The training identifies the majority of the improvised explosive devices they are likely to encounter in the Uruzgan province, but does not train them how to disable or detonate the IED in place.
That task is covered in the explosive hazard reduction course, a four-week course taught mainly to ANA engineers, ANA infantry, and ANP patrolmen in an effort to aid route clearance companies and explosive ordnance disposal assets.
The EHRC builds on the C–IED course and teaches the students to safely reduce non-complex explosive hazards by the “blow in place” method. It also gives them proficiency with mine detectors and mine probes.
Approximately 280 ANSF have been trained in EHRC since the program began in 2010.
At the end of the EHRC course, the students are “train the trainer” qualified in C-IED awareness, which means that they are able to return to their respective ANSF positions and teach the basic IED awareness to fellow soldiers or policemen.
“These trainers are very bright and I believe that the students we trained here are confident, and will go back and show their fellow coworkers what we showed them through this training,” Jager said.
Along with C-IED awareness and EHRC training, ANSF personnel can further their knowledge and proficiency through advanced courses such as drivers training for mine-rollers, explosive ordnance disposal school and improvised explosive device detector operator.
| Date Taken: | 04.16.2013 |
| Date Posted: | 04.22.2013 06:11 |
| Story ID: | 105588 |
| Location: | TIRINKOT, AF |
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