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Marines at Al Asad haven't had Iraqi troops to train in weeks By Hope Hodge Seck, Staff writer 3:17 p.m. EDT June 11, 2015 [image: Description: MOUT: Marines train Iraqi soldiers for urban terrain] Marines and coalition forces with Task Force Al Asad train Iraqi soldiers on urban terrain techniques aboard Al Asad air base, Iraq, in February. A new crop of Iraqi soldiers hasn't arrived at the base for training in about a month and a half.(Photo: Cpl. Tony Simmons/Marine Corps) 5604 CONNECT 59 TWEET <https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=http%3A//militari.ly/1S8ihW5&text=Marines%20at%20Al%20Asad%20haven%27t%20had%20Iraqi%20troops%20to%20train%20in%20weeks&via=marinetimes> 5 LINKEDIN <http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=http%3A//militari.ly/1S8ihW5&mini=true> 1 COMMENTEMAILMORE Marine military advisers deployed to Al Asad Air Base in Iraq are ready to carry out their mission to train local forces to fight the Islamic State group. But there's one problem: There are no Iraqi troops to train. A U.S. defense official told The Hill <http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/244329-us-training-mission-stalls-entirely-at-one-iraqi-site> on June 8 there haven't been new rotations of Iraqi troops to train at the base in Anbar province — one of five sites used by coalition forces to advise local troops — for up to a month and a half. Marine officials operating there confirmed the assessment, attributing the lull in training to the base's remote location and the challenge of scheduling advising sessions through the Iraqi defense ministry. The news comes as the White House moves to send about 450 more U.S. troops to augment the advising mission in Iraq. They're slated to train Iraqi forces at a new location: al-Taqaddum Air Base, about 100 miles southeast of Al Asad in Anbar province. The move is meant to help the Iraqi army take back Ramadi, the largest city in the province, from Islamic State militants. The Pentagon announced June 11 that several new bases could be created in the province to assist local troops in the fight against IS. __._,_.___ ------------------------------ Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected]> ------------------------------ Visit Your Group <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmb2wydXA4BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0MzQxMjAzNTA-> [image: Yahoo! Groups] <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo;_ylc=X3oDMTJldDc4ZnYxBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNnZnAEc3RpbWUDMTQzNDEyMDM1MA--> • Privacy <https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/groups/details.html> • Unsubscribe <[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe> • Terms of Use <https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/> __,_._,___ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
