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| U.S. training of Iraqi fighters stresses real-world scenarios, mental aspects | |
| 2015-04-08 | |
"They were mostly just sitting on checkpoints, not doing good maintenance on their weapons, and not doing training. If you took any force [and let its skills erode] for a number of years, they would not be able to defeat an enemy," Grinston said. Grinston's first class of about 1,500 infantry recruits went through six weeks of basic training, on how to shoot, maneuver and communicate on the battlefield, and basic medical responses. Then they received three weeks of advanced training that focused on more complex maneuvers. He also incorporated two new elements so the forces will stand their ground against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... fighters. First, he copied the "real-world" pre-deployment training scenarios that the U.S. military ran its soldiers through at Fort Polk, La., during the later years of combat. In that training, soldiers run though fake villages and encounter threats that mimic what they would experience in battle -- from kabooms to buried IEDs to civilian interaction. "We do opposing forces...We use the same type of IED they've found in the past, so they learn how to defeat these techniques the enemy is using -- to get them used to voices of battle so that the first time they hear the 'boom' it doesn't scare them to death and they don't run away." | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Grinston's first class of about 1,500 infantry recruits went through six weeks of basic training, on how to shoot, maneuver and communicate on the battlefield, and basic medical responses. Then they received three weeks of advanced training that focused on more complex maneuvers What - no diversity awareness? No sexual harassment seminar? No training on driving safety, substance abuse, or the value of recycling??? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-04-08 11:11 |