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    U.S. works with Senegalese military, adds demining capability for West African nation [Image 13 of 15]

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    U.S. works with Senegalese military, adds demining capability for West African nation

    Staff Sgt. Malachi McPherson, an explosive ordnance disposal team member for the Humanitarian Mine Action Program in Senegal, reviews instructors’ notes during a practical application exercise, March 8, at an engineer base in Bargny, Senegal. Since Feb. 15, a group of EOD technicians with Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Africa, began assisting Senegalese engineers as part of the HMAP through what is called a train-the-trainer program. The program initially began in 2014, when EOD Marines from Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and Vermont Air National Guard EOD technicians began teaching a group of veteran, hand-selected Senegalese soldiers how to be instructors. Now, in its second phase, three Senegalese soldiers, all engineers, are instructing eight junior-level soldiers in an EOD level one class, which teaches students how identify various types of ordnance and landmines and how to properly mark its locations.

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    Date Taken: 03.08.2016
    Date Posted: 03.15.2016 07:00
    Photo ID: 2463718
    VIRIN: 160308-M-TM093-013
    Resolution: 2880x1920
    Size: 2.51 MB
    Location: BARGNY, SN

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