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Tabasum Sharqi (left) opens a book she received for graduating at the top of her Fatima Girls High School class at a ceremony held at the Kunar Department of Women’s (click for more)
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ANA, TF Storm break trail, make difference in Kharwar
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PAKTYA PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Afghan National Civil Order Policemen proudly displayed their certificates during a graduation ceremony Feb. 17 for the counter improvised explosive device awareness train-the-trainer course held at the Paktya provincial police headquarters in Gardez City.
U.S. Army Capt. James Avrams of Logan, Iowa, commander of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Task Force Lethal, 1st Battalion, 168th Infantry Regiment, helped coordinate training for the Afghan National Security Forces in Paktya Province and arranged for the ANCOP to participate in the C-IED class.
Avrams heard about the class in January and arranged to meet with the organization running the course, a subcontractor called Ronco International.
“(Ronco) primarily put on classes for the Afghan National Army at Forward Operating Base Thunder,” said Avrams. “So I said, ‘Hey, how about we do an ANCOP only one?’ And they were all for it.”
The training, conducted at police headquarters for the 4th Bde., ANCOP, consisted of five days of hands-on classes. Topics included enemy tactics, searching for IEDs, assessing the status of a route, reacting to an IED, reporting an IED and identifying the components of an IED.
The course is designed to accomplish two goals. It provides a basic understanding of IEDs and what to do if one is found and teaches each student the skills to conduct a one-day informational course on IED awareness.
The train-the-trainer feature helps to spread IED awareness significantly throughout the province as graduates of the course share the information with others in their unit.
Col. Muhammed, 4th Bde., ANCOP commander, has high hopes for the same outcome in Paktya.
“I hope that my soldiers who participated in this class have learned something, and that they will use the information in their operations,” said Muhammed.
Sgt. Ja Muhammed, a driver in the ANCOP, is determined to share what he has learned during the C-IED course with more than just members of his unit.
“My target was to come here, learn, and after that, go and teach for my friends and other units and other people who live in the village,” said Ja Muhammed.
At the end of the ceremony, graduates packed up the training equipment provided to them as a gift by the instructors and began planning to conduct their first C-IED awareness course.
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