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Saturday, November 7, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009
My Armed qualifications with the Pakistan Army include Officers’ Standard Map Reading, Officers’ Weapons Course, Other Arms Signals’ Instructors Course. I attended a one month’ Anti Terrorist Training’ cadre. Details of my Armed Jobs included: Military parade, firing/handling/stripping/assembling of M-1 7.62 mm US caliber rifle, 7.62 mm G-3 Assault Rifle, 9mm MP5A2 Submachine Carbine, 7.62 mm MG1A3 Light Machine Gun, 7.62 mm Styre Sniper’s Rifle, Mortars, 106 mm Recoilless Rifle, RPG-7, 7.62 mm Submachine Gun (Chinese), 14.5 mm ACK ACK, 12.7 mm ACK ACK, Pump Action, AK-47, practicing Night Navigation, Conducting Route March, practicing Major and Minor Operations of War, e.g., Attack, Defence, Withdrawal, Patrols, Infiltration, Raid, Ambush etc, discussing models, training physically including: push ups, 2 miles running, chin ups or pull ups, sit ups and rope climbing, doing Assault Course (9 obstacles included), attending lectures on Military Tactics, Weapons and First Aid, maintaining discipline in under command troops for protecting weapons in the operational area while deployed in escalatory conditions over a UN-monitored cease-fire line (between India and Pakistan) in the disputed Himalayan Valley of Jammu and Kashmir, keeping the under command troops alert for attacks from enemy, establishing piquets and listening posts to observe enemy’s movements, maintaining bunkers, experiencing live fire from enemy by small arms at Border Out Posts, supervising the guards in all bunkers of my rifle company deployed at a stretch of some 3 miles as a Duty Officer, maintaining physical fitness of self and under command troops, writing Route Reconnaissance Reports and drawing field sketches, writing scripts to present military studies using MS Power Point and delivering them in a panel with senior officers (once including the present DG ISI, viz: Lt. General Ahmad Shuja Pasha), writing 3 articles and one essay (for participating in the ‘Joint Services Essay Writing Competition’, writing reviews on a number of books, preparing schedule for refresher training of troops, drafting official letters and SOPs for Fire Fighting etc, helping in collection of recruited troops for refresher trainings, typing themes (with 200 keys per minute or 30 words per minute typing speed) and working online using the internet, serving as umpire in athletics and orienteering competitions in our division, serving as Weekly Duty Officer (in peace time) and conducting various kinds of checks like:- alertness of guards and security of the battalion premises, protection of weapons and other equipment, Fire Fighting practice, quality of food served to the troops, cleanliness of the Battalion’s premises and troops as well. Practicing drills and procedures to assemble the Quick Reaction Force. Learning procedures for one month being part of an Anti Terrorist Training cadre which included Firing Squads, Static and Mobile Piquets, Room Search/Hostage Rescue Teams, VIP Protection Teams and Unarmed Combatants. Giving Verbal Orders and Land Marks in TEWTs, i.e., Territorial Exercise Without Troops. Commanding platoons in 2 isolated positions in a mountainous territory on a cease-fire line in the Himalayas. Participating in an exercise, viz: Exercise Team Spirit, surviving for 4 days and nights without edibles, holding 20 kilograms of the back pack and 4 kilograms of the Assault Rifle, preparing for the world renowned Exercise Cambrian Patrol (held annually). We, an 8 member team traversed some 40 miles in the mountains, as we practiced: infiltration, Close Target Reconnaissance, Casualty Evacuation, Speed March and River Crossing, Fighting in Built Up Area. As a Security Trainee in Wackenhut Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd., we attended 10 days of classes on Leadership, Writing Reports, Control Room Operations, Search and Seizure, First Aid, Mobile Roving Patrols, Handling of various fire arms like repeater and pistols, Executive Protection and Two Way Radio Operations. After training to become a Duty Officer, my job for one month in Lahore had been: Patrolling the Operational Area on a company provided motor bike to check duties of guards and invoicing. I was picked by the same company for serving the ‘elite security set up’ at ‘Hub Power Station’ in Balochistan, preparing Route Cards for VIPs’ motorcades, training physically and Karate, running the Crisis Management Center (CMC) Operations with telecommunications’ equipment connected with the British Deputy High Commission in Karachi, swimming while rescuing, suggesting minimum security requirements for the foreigners’ residential township and the 3 square miles power station’s premises, handling of AK-47 Assault Rifle at the reception post of the power station controlling access of individuals/vehicles after searching and verifying them. This post had a manually operated gate and an arms’ barrier. I also operated Close Circuit TVs connected to surveillance cameras, looking after the whole plant.
Comments
Whoa, Sajib, this is so much to have accomplished. How did you do it all. And do it all so well? I am honored to know such a person as you, for what you have accomplished, for what you have been through, and for the loving and open person you have come to be after all the army training.
kuzy
Thanks for taking time to read it all. It does not interest many people. Now I need your prayers to get into a job that makes me use these skills again.
shootingstar1