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The Students��� View
Ranger X, ARW
���This was an excellent course. The instructors from Pencari
were brilliant. The wealth of knowledge and experience they have is
phenomenal, and the way they
put across their lessons was very
professional. The course material is
very beneficial to the unit and the
Defence Forces. While being able to
read ���sign��� to prevent IED casualties
is of invaluable benefit, the ability to
carry out a follow-up mission to track
your opponent is also a huge asset.���
Sgt John Doyle, 27 Inf Bn
���As a C-IED instructor I found this a very good course
because it really makes you look at
and analyse areas where you operate. For example, I can look at an
area and see the way it should look.
Then if I come back to the same area
again and things have been moved
around or something is out of place I
know something is wrong. And now
combat tracking is bringing us to the
next level.���
WO Robert Wagensteiner, Engineer School,
Austrian Armed Forces
���I did the ground-sign awareness course here in Ireland last
year. This was an excellent course
as it is the missing piece in the C-IED
puzzle in terms of ���attacking the
network���. At present Austria does
not have combat trackers but from
what I have learned over the last two
courses here I will be advising that
we implement and use these valuable tools; and not just to specialists
like engineers but to all our soldiers.���
Maj Alessio Apkella, Combat Engineer HQ,
Italian Army
���We are currently implementing ground-sign awareness
training using the templates that we
learned on the course here last year.
At some point we may develop combat trackers but first we need to teach
our soldiers ���sign���. These courses are
of huge benefit in allowing us access
to the latest C-IED techniques.���
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