Trainers in Iraq focus on IED detection
US forces in Iraq are training Iraqi troops to perform complex combined arms maneuvers involving armor, air and artillery support along with critical IED detection techniques, a senior enlisted soldier just back from Iraq says. Command Sgt. Maj. James Carabello, the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization's (JIEDDO) senior enlisted adviser, shuttled among the five US […]Paul McLeary writes for Defense News:
US forces in Iraq are training Iraqi troops to perform complex combined arms maneuvers involving armor, air and artillery support along with critical IED detection techniques, a senior enlisted soldier just back from Iraq says. Command Sgt. Maj. James Carabello, the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization's (JIEDDO) senior enlisted adviser, shuttled among the five US and coalition training sites in Iraq earlier this month, and says that the Iraqis are well equipped for the counter-IED fight.
At the Iraqi Bismyiah training facility near Baghdad where the Iraqi Army does most of its counter-IED training, "they seem to have a really good handle on what they're doing with their [explosive ordnance disposal] EOD guys" Carabello told Defense News.
