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Washington Times
March 16, 2008
Pg. 7
WILLIAMSBURG--About 400 reservists with the Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support Group are undergoing six weeks of intensified training at a base near Williamsburg.
They are getting ready to take on the customs-inspection mission for service members returning from Iraq.
Almost 35,000 sailors and airmen with the Navy and Air Force are handling land-force roles — such as customs inspections and convoy security — in Iraq and Afghanistan to relieve the overstretched Army and Marine Corps.
The reservists come from 43 states, Puerto Rico and Guam and represent dozens of Navy job specialties from cooks, hospital corps and storekeepers to explosive-ordnance specialists and hull maintenance technicians.
Leaders said many of the sailors had never handled weapons, but more than 14,600 sailors are now serving ashore in Iraq and Afghanistan and in Persian Gulf nations.
Faced with that challenge, the Logistics Support Group set up its own ground-combat training operation in October so the sailors headed overseas know how to take defensive positions.
March 16, 2008
Pg. 7
WILLIAMSBURG--About 400 reservists with the Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support Group are undergoing six weeks of intensified training at a base near Williamsburg.
They are getting ready to take on the customs-inspection mission for service members returning from Iraq.
Almost 35,000 sailors and airmen with the Navy and Air Force are handling land-force roles — such as customs inspections and convoy security — in Iraq and Afghanistan to relieve the overstretched Army and Marine Corps.
The reservists come from 43 states, Puerto Rico and Guam and represent dozens of Navy job specialties from cooks, hospital corps and storekeepers to explosive-ordnance specialists and hull maintenance technicians.
Leaders said many of the sailors had never handled weapons, but more than 14,600 sailors are now serving ashore in Iraq and Afghanistan and in Persian Gulf nations.
Faced with that challenge, the Logistics Support Group set up its own ground-combat training operation in October so the sailors headed overseas know how to take defensive positions.