Soldiers Teach Fiber Optics to Iraqi Army

By • on June 12, 2009

Soldiers Teach Fiber Optics to Iraqi Army

By Army Sgt. Jon Soles
Special to American Forces Press Service

BAGHDAD, June 12, 2009 – Iraqi security forces are learning more than just fighting skills from their coalition forces partners. Soldiers of the 1st Calvary Division’s Company C, Division Special Troops Battalion, are passing on their technical expertise of fiber optics cable technology to Iraqi army leaders.
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Army Spc. Jorge Lugo, left, begins the process of cutting a fiber optic cable so he can let Iraqi Army Sgt. 1st Class Saad Jafar Kareem demonstrate re-joining the delicate glass cables at Camp Liberty, Iraq, May 13, 2009. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Jon Soles