KABUL, Afghanistan – A mobile training team is teaching their first three-week train the instructor course at Camp Zafar, Herat province, which is scheduled to graduate March 9.
Nineteen students are enrolled in the course and will soon become Afghan National Army instructors at the Afghan army Basic Warrior Course.
“Here we are teaching the instructors to become instructors, and also teaching them techniques they can use to instruct better,” said U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Brian Kitson, coalition forces.
Mobile trainer team members, comprised of coalition forces, travel from site to site at the Basic Warrior Courses across Afghanistan to teach basic military training techniques.
“By coming to them, Afghan army noncomissioned officers don’t have to leave their places of work, which is more convenient and faster for them, and they can continue to lead their soldiers,” said Kitson.
Kitson and his fellow mentor, U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Rainey, are confident in knowing that Afghans are taking control of their own destiny.
“They’re taking part in not only helping their country, but making sure they have better infrastructure and better training to do better things,” said Kitson. “I can see a future where they’re doing it all themselves.”