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BAGHDAD - As the Iraqi Ground Forces Command further increases its ability to conduct operations, understanding the electronic fundamentals in the communications and signal field is a crucial part of mission readiness.
To help broaden Iraqi soldiers’ knowledge of electronics and electricity, United States Forces - Iraq service members are Teaching them basic electronics in a two-week course.
The 40th Expeditionary Signal Battalion and their Iraqi counterparts
held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the basic electronics course, Mar. 7, at Camp Iraqi Hero.
“The basic electronic course will teach the fundamentals of electricity
and different types of currents,” said Capt. Trinity Peterson, from Ogden, Utah, commander, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 40th ESB.
“We’ll teach the basic components, how they work together and how they can build on those fundamentals to better maintain their own equipment.”
The course covers the definition of electricity, how it’s created as well as the many types of circuitry.
“In this course we go over what electricity is, where it comes from and how it’s generated,” said Sgt. Adam Herbert, from Boston, Mass., a radio and communications security repairer also with HHC, 40th ESB, and the primary instructor for the course. “We go over different types of circuits, the components that go into making a circuit and then go into Ohm’s Law.”
Ohm's Law is the relationship between power, voltage, current and resistance. It is a basic theorem in the study of all things electrical and electronic.
"My Soldiers are teaching them the basic understanding of electronics to get the groundwork at the baseline,” said Lt. Col. Troy Douglas, from Springfield, Tenn., battalion commander for 40th ESB. “By planting that seed, we’re showing them how to be more self dependent. We hope, in the future, to teach them even more with an advanced course.”
Not only does the course benefit the Iraqi soldiers in acquiring knowledge, it also continues to strengthen the cohesion between U.S. and Iraqi forces.
“The class will benefit the Iraqis by providing a foundation that they can expand on,” said Peterson. “It benefits all of us together by continuing to develop that partnership, letting both [U.S.] soldiers and Iraqis know that we don’t need to be afraid of each other, we can work together and together we can do great things.”
“The soldiers are even more aware now about electronic circuits, they get along very well with the instructors and understand them,” said Lt. Col. Abdulkerim Shaker, commander of communications for the IGFC signal regiment. “We’re very thankful for the U.S. in assisting and teaching us these skills.”
Shaker added that he believes that the skills and knowledge gained from this course can be passed on from this generation of soldiers to the next. “I’m thinking of putting some of the students as instructors themselves in the future,” he said.
This training provides Iraqi soldiers with not only a sense of the importance of electronic components, but of the need to maintain them as well.
“Maintenance is very important, we’re giving them a foundation,” said Herbert. “We’re starting with the very basics that will build them up in time, as we give them the ability to troubleshoot and fix their own equipment when it breaks.”
The 40th ESB plans to continue mentoring the Iraqi soldiers at IGFC in basic electronics until the end of its deployment. The success of this course has led to the possibility of advance classes in the future.
| Date Taken: | 03.07.2011 |
| Date Posted: | 03.12.2011 08:00 |
| Story ID: | 66930 |
| Location: | BAGHDAD, IQ |
| Web Views: | 90 |
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