Photo By Spc. William Hatton | A Soldier in B Company, 6th Regional Commando Battalion, Iraqi Special Operations...... read more read more
BASRAH, Iraq – When it comes to safety and security, everyone desires for their neighborhood to be protected. The citizens of Basrah desire nothing different. It goes without saying that Iraqi soldiers operating in the area have to be at the top of their game.
Soldiers in Company B, 6th Regional Commando Battalion, Iraqi Special Operations Forces, conducted an urban assault training exercise recently in southern Iraq to help hone their skills.
For these elite Soldiers to perform at the highest level, practice and training becomes especially important to succeed in protecting the citizens of the second largest city in Iraq.
"If we want to be successful on missions it requires us to not only train daily, but it's necessary for us to do it right each time," said a sergeant major with Co. B. "If we learn from our mistakes now, we will be more effective during the missions."
"The more training we do, the less likely I am to forget what is important during the mission," said a squad leader with the company.
"I look at our training like soccer," he said. "If you want to be successful in soccer, you have to keep practicing. You practice different moves and different techniques so that you will be better than your opponent."
"The same goes for training like this," he added. "The more we do it, the better we will be at protecting the people."
One way Soldiers are getting better trained is through close quarters combat exercises. To improve in this area, ISOF soldiers built a 'shoot house,' or a structure designed to represent an urban environment.
The shoot house is located inside a warehouse set up for both day and night scenarios.
The Iraqi squad leaders and commanders constructed the house with interchangeable walls, allowing them to change the rooms around to make sure soldiers don't get too comfortable, said a coalition forces advisor.
"They use furniture inside the rooms to make it more realistic and to add more of an obstacle as they clear the rooms," the advisor added.
"We built a shoot house and designed it to look more like houses we see in the city," said the company sergeant major. "The more realistic we make the training; the less likely we will make mistakes during the mission."
The 6th RCB Soldiers train daily to ensure their skills are honed for success when they carry out operations.
"Most of our missions will consist of close quarters like in the shoot house," the company sergeant major said. "With this training, our Soldiers are more capable of protecting the people of Basrah."
| Date Taken: | 04.04.2009 |
| Date Posted: | 04.04.2009 13:02 |
| Story ID: | 32019 |
| Location: | BASRA, IQ |
| Web Views: | 353 |
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