Photo By Capt. Daniel Yarnall | Lt. Mustafa Riadh, an Iraqi police explosive ordnance disposal technician collects...... read more read more
BAGHDAD – Lt. Mustafa Riadh, an Iraqi police explosive ordnance disposal technician, sifts through the dirt of a two-foot-wide crater to gather particles of an improvised explosive device as he and a team of EOD specialists process a blast scene for evidence.
The group participated in a site-exploitation training lane, July 26, at Camp Deutsch on Victory Base Complex as part of the seven week Combined Joint Explosive Triage Course instructed by the 22nd Chemical Battalion, Task Force Troy.
CJET trains members of Iraqi police, Iraqi army and federal police how to process a blast scene. They cover a wide variety of training such as evidence collection and handling, fingerprinting and fingerprint development techniques, triage lab procedures, and record keeping, said Capt. Joseph Fuller, Task Force Troy’s partnership and transition officer.
Staff Sgt. Donald Pearl, lead instructor with the 22nd Chemical Battalion, said the EOD technicians seem excited to attend the course and increase their knowledge and skills.
“They are very eager to learn and want to find out what they can from us. They want to improve their skills, and in turn, help improve security in Iraq,” Pearl said.
2nd Lt. Ali Adnan Qassim, an Iraqi federal policeman, said this is the sort of training that members of Iraqi security forces need to win the counter-insurgency fight.
“I am getting a lot of experience here that I can take back to my unit. I can go back with what I learned here and it will help me and those I work with,” said Qassim.
Once the Iraqi technicians have learned all the procedures in a classroom setting, they are put through a realistic training lane that tests the their skills.
“We’ll set up a blast site as if an IED just went off. We have them arrive on the scene and simply tell them to go to work,” said instructor Sgt. Christopher St. Clair.
The instructors increase the stress of the blast-scene experience by adding role-players to the scenario.
“We’ll have our guys video-taping the students from a distance. We’ll also have them interfere with the process somehow. The students will have to secure the scene, preserve the evidence, and control the crowds around them. Then they still have to get everything back to the triage lab,” said St. Clair.
On Aug. 6, five Iraqi EOD technicians will complete the course. During the past year, 24 others have graduated.
| Date Taken: | 07.26.2010 |
| Date Posted: | 08.01.2010 14:22 |
| Story ID: | 53787 |
| Location: | BAGHDAD, IQ |
| Web Views: | 186 |
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