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| Iraq |
| Peshmerga's 80th Command Forces graduate from training |
| 2020-02-14 |
| [Rudaw] Members of Erbil's 80th Command Forces graduated from a three-month advanced weapons training course in Soran, Erbil province in a ceremony on Wednesday. Arazoo Omed was one of 21 women who graduated from the course, for which training was provided by Kurdish and French personnel. "We were trained in [the use of] explosives, RPJs, Kalashnikovs, machine guns and BKC rifles. I would like to see every woman undergo such training, because it is very important," Omed said. Course trainers, Coalition personnel and French Consul General Olivier Decottignies were all in graduation ceremony attendance. The 80th Command Forces, under Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) control, consists of at least 58,000 Peshmerga troops. This is the first time women have been made part of the 80 Command. The 21 women graduates made up a tiny fraction of the 1,281-strong cohort. |
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