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KIRKUK TRAINING CENTER, Iraq – Soldiers of 1st Advise and Assist Task Force, 1st Infantry Division, and Iraqi instructors simulated engaging and advancing toward an enemy during a class at the Kirkuk Training Center, Iraq, July 2.
Instructors demonstrated the battle drill as part of the transition for the Kirkuk expanded combined security force from individual to collective training.
“Once they understood the individual tasks and qualified, we brought them together to learn to work as a unit,” said Staff Sgt. Devon Pierce, squad leader, Company A, 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 1st AATF.
Pierce, a Mobile, Ala., native, said the eCSF learning to work as a unit helps the combined force – made up of Iraqi police, Iraqi army and Kurdish Peshmerga – to build cohesion and trust.
After Pierce explained the concept of reacting to contact while on foot and how each element works together, eCSF instructors demonstrated the lesson.
The instructors conducted a simulation as Pierce explained to the students the steps involved in advancing on a target.
Students conduct the training in a “crawl, walk, run” concept, Pierce explained, where trainees progressively learn fundamental steps before acting as a cohesive unit.
“Right now we’re in the walk phase of training,” said Pierce. “They crawled as individuals and are learning to walk together, as a team, a squad and a platoon. At the end, they’ll conduct a platoon mission that will integrate everything they’ve been taught, which will show us they are able to stand and run together without involvement from us.”
After a few demonstrations from instructors, eCSF trainees conducted the battle drill for themselves.
Two U.S. soldiers supervised each platoon to ensure trainees conducted the exercise properly, said Spc. Jessie Patrick, a radio and telephone operator with Company A.
“Following classroom training, we conduct practical exercises so they get hands-on experience in regard to what they’ve been taught,” said the Downsville, La., native. “We went over how to react to contact; now we’re just ensuring they know the proper way to do it.”
| Date Taken: | 07.02.2011 |
| Date Posted: | 07.13.2011 02:34 |
| Story ID: | 73625 |
| Location: | KIRKUK TRAINING CENTER, IQ |
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