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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: TheSarge on January 05, 2008, 09:10:40 AM
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq, Jan. 4, 2008 – “No one is more professional than I,†states the U.S. Army’s NCO Creed, and noncommissioned officers here are gearing up to instill the same pride and professionalism in their Iraq counterparts.
The Task Force Marne NCO Academy at FOB Kalsu will welcome its first class of Iraqi soldiers Jan. 14.
“We’re going to be teaching them everything – combat orders, combat medical, map-reading, mounted patrols, dismounted patrols, weapons, rules of engagement, duties and responsibilities,†said Master Sgt. Michael Howle, the new training facility’s commandant. “The instructors who were selected are supposed to be some of the best NCOs we have here.â€
Preparations for the academy have been under way for about five weeks, and the NCOs have built the academy from the ground up.
“We started this from scratch, nada, zero,†Howle said. “A month ago, we had eight empty tents. Now we have four sleep tents, three classrooms and an office tent. We’ve also set up a (squad training exercise) lane on a one-and-a-half-mile stretch of our perimeter road, and we’re having a shoot house built.â€
The classes will be small at first, with 20 soldiers in each of three platoons, Howle said. Subsequent classes will be larger, with the largest number of attendees projected at 180. Six instructors will be assigned to each platoon.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=48570
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All I can say is , good luck with that. I have dealt with Arabs/Muslims on several occasions while in the military in training situations. They are the laziest most disorganized bunch of assholes known to man. Does anyone remember the 1st gulf war and the ass whoopin' they took against a "real" military" force. The death toll on their side was horrendous.