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FORWARD OPERATING BASE LINDSEY, Afghanistan - Marines with Mobile Strike Force Kandak Security Force Assistance Advisor Team, Regional Command Southwest, traveled to Regional Command (South) to attend the Interim Stryker Recovery System Train the Trainer Course, at Forward Operating Base Lindsey, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, Oct. 13-17.
Army Staff Sgt. David Miles, senior mechanic with Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 4th Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment, instructed the class. He went over the Interim Stryker Recovery System, an Army fielded system that can winch and recover vehicles all without the need of other equipment and consists of the truck, midsection and trailer.
“The Stryker recovery system itself has a trailer that can be expanded to allow for different widths and loads,” said Miles. “It is able to haul something on a trailer base without having to call for crane support in order to get it onto the trailer.”
The trailer was designed specifically for the Stryker vehicle but can be attached to other transporting equipment. The ANA unit the MSF works with has the Stryker trailer hooked up to an M-916 light equipment transporter. Since the Marine Corps does not use or own any Stryker recovery systems, the purpose of the course was to give the Marines a better understanding of the equipment, which in turn would make it easier for them to create training material to teach the ANA.
"It’s different, being that we are advising (the ANA) on how to use it when it’s a piece of equipment we don’t really use,” said Gunnery Sgt. Nygel Lewis, motor transport maintenance chief with the MSF. “Just from our motor [transportation] background we already had an idea on how to work it, but we never received any (formal) hands-on training.”
The class focused on basic operations of the system, including how to tilt the trailer for loading, and safety issues that come with the use of all heavy equipment.
“I tried to implement the safety aspect to tell them about the pinch points,” said Miles, a Battle Creek, Mich., native. “I covered what its capabilities are and how to correct issues, along with the negative sides to the trailer so they can know its capabilities and limitations.”
Lewis said although it seemed difficult on the first day, once they got hands-on time with the system, operating the system came easy.
“[The Marines] were very observant, they wanted to jump on and complete the task right at hand,” said Miles. “Once they understood the concepts, they were able to roll with it.”
Lewis said once the team returns to Camp Leatherneck, Helmand province, they will set up a class to go through the operations step-by-step with the ANA, and then move on to demonstrations and hands-on application.
“As long as the [Afghans] see you operate it, and you give them the hands-on time, they will get it,” said Lewis, a Jersey City, N.J., native. “[The course] really helped. Now that we have this course, we can actually teach them and they can utilize [the Interim Stryker Recovery System] to do their recoveries.”
| Date Taken: | 10.17.2013 |
| Date Posted: | 10.23.2013 03:26 |
| Story ID: | 115571 |
| Location: | FORWARD OPERATING BASE LINDSEY, AF |
| Hometown: | BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN, US |
| Hometown: | JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, US |
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