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OKINAWA, Japan - A wall of shields line one end of the parade deck, on the other an crowd acting angry jeers the men and women behind the wall.
On command the wall starts to move forward; putting on a show of force, hoping the crowd will disperse without incident.
The crowd stays.
A few members of the crowd pick up rocks and start lobbing them at the wall. Others grab water balloons and throw them into the crowd behind the shields.
As if that were a cue, the rest of the crowd rushes the wall. One man breaks through and is promptly overcome and taken into custody. The crowd retreats a few steps.
Finally, one of the Mongolian leaders calls a halt to the scenario. It’s time to switch sides.
This was just one of the crowd control scenarios the Mongolian Armed Forces and Internal Forces practiced as instructors from Special Operations Training Group, III Marine Expeditionary Force, watched and made suggestions June 30 during Non-Lethal Weapons Executive Seminar 2010.
NOLES is an annual seminar held each year in a different country in the Asia-Pacific-region. Since 2002, Marines with SOTG have gone to the country designated for the event, whether it was Sri Lanka, Australia, Bangladesh, Indonesia or Mongolia, and completed exercises with the local forces in non-lethal weapons. During the seminar, the force provides a demonstration of their proficiency. The demonstration is designed to show key personnel from approximately 20 countries in the Asia-Pacific Region non-lethal weapons and tactics they can bring to their forces.
The Mongolian Forces learned the crowd control formations and facts about the non-lethal munitions commonly used for riot control over a period of four days. The fifth day was all about perfecting what they learned.
"The formations we use are for riot control," said Staff Sgt. Jeramy Loux, an instructor with SOTG, during NOLES-10. "Most of the time that you would employ non-lethal weapons would be in riot situations. The formations are designed to create a barrier from the rioters so they can’t get to the more vulnerable side of the control force. We use shields and batons and non-lethal munitions to try to break up the rioters," he said.
Crowd Control, or Riot Control, methods are the steps and procedures police, military or other security forces use to break up a crowd.
The formations demonstrated to the Mongolian forces are "a good tool to do crowd control with instead of going straight to lethal force," said Staff Sgt. Frederick Gladle, an instructor with SOTG during NOLES-10.
While one group spent the morning further practicing the riot-control formations, the other group went to the non-lethal munitions range where they fired the M203 grenade launcher using foam baton and ball munitions. They were also given the chance to throw multiple training grenades and sting ball grenades before they were given shotguns with a special adapter on the front for firing the grenades.
Though the language barrier made it more difficult to work with the Mongolian forces, most of the skills being demonstrated during NOLES-10 are hands-on which "you can show them and they can understand," said Sgt. Joshua Meadows, an instructor with SOTG during NOLES-10.
Both exercises, the non-lethal munitions range and the crowd-control formations, had one purpose: to meet the NOLES mission of spreading the knowledge of non-lethal weapons and tactics to the countries involved.
| Date Taken: | 07.16.2010 |
| Date Posted: | 07.27.2010 01:40 |
| Story ID: | 53433 |
| Location: | MONGOLIA, OKINAWA, JP |
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