Iraqi soldiers graduate personnel course

Multi-National Forces-Iraq ^

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An Iraqi soldiers shakes hands with a fellow soldier during the graduation ceremony.

Seventy soldiers from the 8th Iraqi Army Division graduated Friday from a course on maintaining accurate and reliable personnel and security records.

The soldiers who graduated from the two-week Unit Transition Point course were all assigned to the either brigade or battalion personnel departments.

The training was conducted by instructors from Iraqi Ground Forces Command in Baghdad and monitored and supervised by Multi-National Division Central-South military transition team officers.

The first week of the course was devoted to training on high-technology devices for fingerprinting as well as voice and retina checking. The second consisted of practice training.

The course was designed to establish a unit-level “one-stop” Unit Transition Point that assures personnel and equipment accountability and that proper procedures are followed for pay and leave. In addition, it strengthens controls for security badges and identification cards.

Multi-National Division Central-South , which falls under Multi-National Corps Iraq, is run primarily by members of the Polish military.

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Every Army needs AG Branch types to keep records