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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Ready for battle: Syrian women fighters prepare to join the onslaught against ISIS after completing their military training
2017-08-11
[DailyMail]
  • Women from the Kurdish YPG-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) danced and celebrated after completing their training

  • Trainers taught 210 women weapons handling, tactics and first aid in a 15-day course to prepare for deployment straight to Raqqa

  • A spokesman for SDF said they wanted to liberate areas of Syria from Islamic State and the 'male mentality'

  • The next course will start in two months
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  Well, they didn't have to be taught how to report for pay--do they still do that?, or march, or deal with frostbite, or how to put insignia on Class A uniforms. Still, when I was in, eight weeks was Basic which prepared you for limited defensive fighting. Then you went to AIT to learn how to soldier. Infantry was nine more weeks and then the unit you went to taught you their SOP, if they had time.
This sounds bad.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2017-08-11 08:25  

#1  15 days~2 weeks
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-08-11 00:07  

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