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Iraqi River Police Trainers Learn Basic Boat Engineering
Multi-National Force - Iraq ^

Posted on 02/01/2008 4:20:13 PM PST by SandRat

BAGHDAD — The Iraqi River Patrol Police station is training their trainers to maintain and troubleshoot their river craft while underway with a 10-day basic engineering course taught by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Joseph Aldana, Naval Special Warfare Unit 3, Bahrain.

Students are participating in the Basic Engineering course offered as a way to assist the river police in troubleshooting malfunctions of boat equipment and help them understand how the river craft operate.

The topics taught within the Basic Engineering course are Internal Combustion; Basic Electricity; Marine Battery/Electricity; Backing Gaskets and Seals; Troubleshooting and Planned Maintenance System checks.

“The skills taught to the instructors are skills needed to be able to function on the water in case of an emergency,” said Aldana. “The goal of the course is to ensure they have a good foundation of the engineering process because they will soon begin to teach their subordinates.”

Classroom training coupled with hands-on training and reinforced with written tests allows the students to build their learning ability said Aldana.

“The language barrier was the most challenging part of teaching this course,” said Aldana. “The fact that most of the students have a basic knowledge of engineering, it was easier for them to understand and me to teach.”


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: engineering; frwn; iraq; postwariraq; river

1 posted on 02/01/2008 4:20:15 PM PST by SandRat
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2 posted on 02/01/2008 4:20:31 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: SandRat
I wonder if we have any old PBR's in mothballs somewhere. They'd be just about perfect.

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3 posted on 02/01/2008 5:36:52 PM PST by Lurker (Pimping my blog: http://lurkerslair-lurker.blogspot.com/)
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Unfortunately no. All we have it being produced for USN ATT. They could use a squadron per IA Div since most have river areas...


4 posted on 02/01/2008 9:35:19 PM PST by DJ Elliott
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