The Italian military instructors, in concert with the trainers of the other eight nations that make up the Kurdistan Training Coordination Center (KTCC), concluded the 3 ° Modern Brigade Course (MBC) in favor of two battalions of the 1 ^ and 2 ^ brigade of the peshmerga.
The course lasted 10 weeks, in which total 1100 peshmerga soldiers were trained, providing them with knowledge and knowledge in different fields ranging from Counter-IED (recognition and disarming improvised explosive devices), to sniping through precision shooters, to artillery as support for the maneuver. The final exercise of the two battalions took place in the training areas of Tiger Valley need Atrush, respectively to the south and north-east of Erbil, with the planning and execution of offensive operations, in which the peshmergas were able to highlight the improvement of the synergy between the units in the field and the new specialist structures now available to their commanders.
Infantry companies, artillery sections and sharp shooter cores (expert shooters) that make up the battalions worked in a synchronized way to carry out simulations of attacks on enemy positions, putting into practice what they learned in the previous weeks.
The simulation scenarios were designed based on the possible situations that the forces of the Kurdistan Security Forces (KSF) will face in the operations for the reconquest of the inhabited centers occupied by the Daesh as the same Mosul.
This last formative period has completed the training of all the units used on the ground that make up the two brigades of the Kurdistan Security Forces (KSF), a total of approximately 3400 trained peshmerga.
The KTCC, now under Italian guidance until December 2016, coordinates the activities of the trainers of the 8 nations that are part of it, reaching with this course more than 12.500 trained soldiers belonging to the KSF, of which about 5800 by the trainers Italians in the "Prima Parthica" operation operating in Kurdistan since the beginning of the 2015.
