Marines tune up combat driving skills

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Marines tune up combat driving skills
By David Allen, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Thursday, January 24, 2008

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Marines here are testing themselves to see if they have the drive to steer their way through a war zone.

That’s drive — as in getting behind the wheel of a Humvee and putting it through its paces on a skills course designed to re-create conditions in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Marines preparing to augment an embedded training team in Afghanistan recently became the first here to use the newly built Advanced Motor Vehicle Operators Course in the Central Training Area.

According to a Marine Corps press release, the course is designed to lower the number of accidents downrange caused by driver error. It also familiarizes the Marines with the capabilities of their Humvees.

“This training will save Marine lives,” Gunnery Sgt. Cory Signorelli, the staff noncommissioned officer in charge of Division Licensing Schools, 3rd Marine Division, was quoted in the release.


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