By Claudette Roulo
DoD News, Defense Media Activity
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2015 – The fourth and final training
site for Iraqi forces started operations today in Irbil, Pentagon Press
Secretary Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby said today.
About 100 Kurdish peshmerga forces started training at the
Irbil site today, he told reporters at a regular Pentagon news briefing.
"There's still some site infrastructure work that has
to go on at that particular site," Kirby noted.
About 3,500 additional forces are receiving training at the
remaining three sites, located in Al Asad, Bismayah and at Camp Taji near
Baghdad, the admiral said. Eventually, the training areas will be able to
process a total of 12 brigades at once, he said -- nine Iraqi security force
brigades and three brigades of peshmerga troops.
Training is being conducted by a combination of U.S. and
coalition forces and a full training cycle will take about six weeks, Kirby
added.
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