February 14, 2011The Iraqi army is maneuvering at night the first of its kind since 2003 on a remote island in Basra
Alsumaria News / Basra
Involved dozens of Iraqi soldiers, on Monday, the implementation of a training exercise at night on a remote island in Basra is the first of its kind in Iraq since 2003, and brought to the presidency of the Army Staff that the exercise revealed a qualitative leap in the performance of military units, pointing to the imminent implementation of the training exercises jointly with U.S. forces.
The Associate Chief of Staff of the Iraqi Army for training Lt. Gen. Hussein Jasim said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "Infantry Division XIV carried out on Monday night training exercise at the level of regiment, was raided a remote island and cleared of terror suspects were planning the bombing of Basra International Airport Katyusha rockets."
Jassim and that "maneuver which bore the name (" Bright Star ") is the first of its kind in Iraq since 2003, they carried out during the night and included for the first time lighting the battlefield in full using thermal flare projectiles."
He noted Lt. Gen. Jassim that "the exercise revealed a qualitative leap in the performance of the army," adding that "the Army is already planning for the implementation of training exercises so that the larger the level of a brigade composed of several regiments."
The Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iraqi Army for training the "next April will see the implementation of the four joint training exercises with American forces, the level of Infantry Regiment, in different provinces," stressing that "training is an important factor in building the army in order to be able to perform his duties in the most difficult circumstances and positions. "
It is noteworthy that exercise training, which took over implementation of three hours, included the shelling of the barricaded gunmen presumed on the island, mortar, and then a group of boats surrounded the island and combing the coastline light and medium weapons after lighting a torchlight thermal falling air, and then the soldiers raided an island where was heavy fire with small arms, to be announced before the killing and arrest of suspected hackers and the destruction of dig sites.
According to the commander of the Basra Operations Lt. Gen. Mohammed Jawad Huwaidi, "the army to come in the near future to carry out training more complex and sophisticated," he added in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "training programs has made the officers was mostly efficient in dealing with difficult situations," He pointed out that "the army sectors deployed in Basra to impose its control on the security situation fully, and there is no central plan to be implemented requires the transfer of responsibility to the Interior Ministry troops, even troops go off to perform duties outside of city centers."
The island Almshab that carried out the maneuver which is a small island uninhabited, fall within the scope of Hor Almshab, about 60 km north of Basra, which is far from the Iraqi-Iranian border, which included preparations for the conduct of maneuver created an earthen berm on the island, as well as build a number of rooms interconnected to mind the site barricaded gunmen presumed, as well as the establishment of places to facilitate the anchoring of boats and soldiers got out of them, also included a maneuver to deploy hundreds of soldiers and military vehicles in the nearby rural areas relatively site implementation of the maneuver, as well as along the road leading to the city of Basra.
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