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United Kingdom British Army News
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| Thursday,
July 14, 2011, 06:01 PM |
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| British
and U.S. soldiers train Afghan military troops in Improvised
Explosive Device IED detection. |
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International
Security Assistance Force (ISAF) instructors are teaching
members of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) the
fundamentals of identifying and countering improvised explosive
devices on a new course at Camp Leatherneck in Helmand province.
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Counter-improvised explosive device instructor Lance Corporal
Gaz Selby, from Barnsley, demonstrates basic victim-activated
improvised explosive devices to Afghan National Security
Forces trainees at Camp Leatherneck, Helmand province
[Picture: Petty Officer 1st Class Gino Flores, US Navy/ISAF
2011]
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The
Explosive Hazard Reduction (EHR) course at Joint Sustainment
Academy Southwest (JSAS), based at Camp Leatherneck, the
US Marines camp adjacent to Camp Bastion, prepares members
of the Afghan National Army (ANA), uniformed police and
border police to operate in a partnership role with coalition
forces when IEDs are encountered. It also teaches the basics
of insurgent IED tactics and how to handle and eliminate
unexploded ordnance and munitions.
On the course, students learn to locate, identify and
disarm victim-operated IEDs, such as pressure plate and
trip wire devices.
Another of the course's aims is to teach ANSF personnel
to perform searches alongside coalition units:
"We teach them how to spot the IEDs, place a charge
next to it, and then how to blow them up," said US
Senior Chief Petty Officer Ronald Ameika, an explosive
ordnance disposal (EOD) technician and instructor at JSAS.
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Senior
Chief Petty Officer Ronald Ameika, an explosive ordnance
disposal technician, points out a model of an Afghan village
used to instruct Afghan National Security Forces trainees
on vulnerable points for improvised explosive device placement
[Picture: Petty Officer 1st Class Gino Flores, US Navy/ISAF
2011] |
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Course
trainees are constantly reminded to multitask, listening
for the audible alarm from the Vallon metal detector while
always scanning the surface of the earth in front of them
for signs of planted IEDs:
"Students
need to be well-rounded and familiar with all field equipment,
explosives and techniques used," said Senior CPO
Ameika.
"Countering
IEDs and dealing with these devices is a process that
goes through stages," said Lance Corporal Paul Dwayne
of the Royal Engineers, an instructor on the EHR course
at JSAS.
"At
the [moment] we concentrate on getting [students] the
very basics so that they can work with a mentor over a
period of time, getting up to scratch, to the level we
want them at, so we can go out in small teams and carry
out the drills," added LCpl Dwayne.
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