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Article: IRAQI SOLDIERS MAKING PROGRESS, ON TRACK FOR INDEPENDENT OPERATIONS IN AL ANBAR PROVINCE
- Article from:
- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 15, 2006
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The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story:
Iraqi soldiers are right on schedule with training requirements that will allow them to eventually relieve U.S. military forces in western Al Anbar Province, according to Marine officials here.
Soldiers from the 2nd Brigade, 7th Iraqi Army Division - one of two Iraqi Army brigades in western Al Anbar Province - have spent months now learning the administrative and decision-making processes they'll need to function as a military headquarters element to the three Iraqi infantry battalions which will eventually be under their charge.
Partnered with a Military Transition Team - groups of Marines assigned to track and guide each ...