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Soldiers from 24th Ordnance Company, 87th Division Sustainment Support Battalion, 3rd Division Sustainment Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, conducted demilitarization training with quality assurance ammunition specialists from Fort Stewart Sep. 9.
The purpose of the training was to ensure the company’s magazine platoon was qualified on the requirements to identify, handle and store ammunition allowing them to safely support 3rd Infantry Division units during training.
“Demilitarization is one of the tasks that that my 89B (ammunition specialists) and my 89A (ammunition stock control and accounting specialist) need to be proficient at in order to accomplish their war time and peace time missions,” said Capt. Joshua Moore, commander of 24th.
To prepare his Soldiers for the training Moore reached out to ammunition subject matter experts.
“For the demilitarization training we checked out the training and evaluation outline as well as coordinated with the quality assurance ammunition specialists at the ammunition supply point for training,” said Moore.
The QASAS assigned to Fort Stewart then participated by conducting classes to train Soldiers.
“QASAS oversee anything ammunition related,” said Kenneth Harwell the lead QASAS at the Fort Stewart ASP. “I received a call that some of the newer troops needed guidance on identifying ammo so I put together a presentation to give them the basics.”
The presentation consisted of basic knowledge such as color-coding, but the biggest take back from the presentation was learning how to properly identify ammunition lots.
“The most critical, important takeaway during the training was learning how to identify ammo by lot numbers,” said Harwell. “It’s very specific to us so we can identify ammo in malfunctions so that we can make sure the troops don’t get bad ammo.”
The QASAS work with the Soldiers in to ensure that they learn from the training and are able to apply what they learned in real-life scenarios.
“I’m glad I can work with 24th to help them and try to get them to work out at ASP,” said Harwell. “Hopefully when the Soldiers see a round loose on the ground they can identify what it is and properly handle it.”
The training went more in-depth than the training the Soldiers received from Advanced Individual Training received from the ordnance school.
“This differs from advanced initial entry training because it specializes more on the color use,” said Pfc. Alejandro Costas, an ammunition specialist assigned to 24th. “I learned more regulations towards ammunition.”
Usually, demilitarization training needs to be accomplished annually, but 24th goes above the call of duty by training their Soldiers more than what is required.
“We try to knock it out bi-annually just so that they maintain proficiency in demilitarization of ammunition,” said Moore.
Following the demilitarization training, leaders in the company are continuing to prepare their Soldiers for future ammunition oriented training.
“We’re coordinating with the 38th Ordnance Company for further training,” said Moore. “This is part of our training progression that’s going to culminate with our live-fire demolition range in November. All our Soldiers will have the opportunity to prepare their own demolition charges to simulate the emergency destruction and demilitarization of war time stocks in the event that ammunition needs to be removed from the military surplus, or if there is fear of the ASP (ammunition supply point) being overrun during the war time operation.”
| Date Taken: | 09.09.2021 |
| Date Posted: | 09.10.2021 13:05 |
| Story ID: | 404899 |
| Location: | FORT STEWART, GA, US |
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