As a security forces Airman, you’ve just arrived for your deployment to the Joint Defense Operations Center at Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan. The Airman you replaced left early so there’s no transition period. You’ve only been at your desk for five minutes when an alarm sounds and bombs are incoming. You have a responsibility, a job to do… what’s the first step?
Fifteen deployers bound for Kandahar exercised this and similar scenarios here, May 4 and 5. The Afghanistan-specific training was facilitated by the 96th Ground Combat Squadron. It is a new and separate element to the standard 17-day Brave Defender training all security forces Airmen go through prior to each deployment. This is only the third KAF class offered so far.
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