Peshmerga fighters during a simulated raid on a building - photo Matt Cetti-Roberts
March 20, 2015 by Matt Cetti-Roberts – WIB
Mountain guerrillas learn how to become urban warriors
A young, German army non-commissioned officer stands inside the room. He’s by the window, and he’s waiting for his students. There’s no door — just a cardboard box in its place marked “fragile.”
The students — all of them Kurdish Peshmerga fighters — enter, kicking up dust and wildly pointing their weapons in different directions. Their lack of confidence doing this for the first time shows.
The German soldier stops them, pointing out what they did wrong. He stands in a corner demonstrating that if he had been an enemy, he could have killed the first man entering the room. The pupils nod their heads as a translator delivers the lesson.
The trainees enter the room and try again … and again. The Kurds make mistakes — sometimes small, sometimes big. But the foreign instructors carry on, patiently pushing them to do better.
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A German soldier, at left, speaks to a group of Peshmerga trainees through an interpreter, at right - photo Matt Cetti-Roberts – WIB
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