European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 2007 stars and stripes Page 3 a total of 78 made up almost entirely of Security forces personnel from around air forces in recently worked their Way through Creek a two week course designed to prepare Security forces members for deployment to the i i photos by Ben and stripes left airman 1st class Robert a Security forces specialist from the 569th forces police Squadron in Germa keeps watch while patrolling a training Range near above air Force staff Avonte a Security forces specialist and instructor at the 786th Security forces squad Ron Creek defender talks through new techniques in target right a working dog handled by air Force staff Charleston from the 31st Security forces squad Ron at Aviano air sounds off during a air Force cops prepare to go downrange by Scott Schonauer stars and stripes Germany the military working dog at tacked air Force staff Chris Gopher Clawson like a hungry Mountain lion on a wounded an instructor who played the part of an lumbered Down the Hill but didst have a get Down on the ground a Security forces airman yelled As the dog latched onto claw sons pad ded he fell to the dirt As the squad moved in and apprehended dog secure the handler the exercise at a training Range just outside the town of Baum older helped prepare Secu Rity forces airmen and military working dogs for what they might face in Iraq or air Force Security forces members must endure the required two week training program be fore they for the first airmen from bases worldwide and scheduled see More photos at to deploy to will come to Germany to receive train ing from the air forces eur rope based regional training Cen better known As Creek de the air Force is studying whether it would make better sense to have regional training centers offer specialized training catered toward deployment Loca the air forces new teaming concept involves each Center being responsible for several deployment locations and molding its program to prepare airmen to those specific Creek based at sem Bach Annex in is the first Center to serve As a training Hub for those heading to the military largest base in nearly 80 airmen from bases across Europe completed the pro Gram last learning first How to react to Roadside bomb attacks and the proper Way to search for a downed students peer through Clouds caused by a smoke grenade As they learn techniques in target identification at a training Range near on senior airman Carlos a Security forces specialist from Avi anon 31ft Security forces uses binoculars and a calculator to learn new techniques in target distance those who participated will de ploy in the next several Creek defender has been around for but has evolved into a training tool geared for combat and what airmen might face in Iraq and air men have historically focused on base but that has changed with the Security forces now often Ven Ture outside the base wire to sweep Fields for possible sur facet air in some help Hunt for insurgents who might attack air bases and thousands of airmen Are deployed in army positions in what the air Force Calls in lieu about half of the airmen who at tended the training near Baum Holder have never been Down but All of the programs 28 instructors and they used their experiences to help put the curriculum airmen must Complete 79 from How to change a tire while on a Convoy to doing foot a those who went through the course last week said the regimen is much harder than they expect one airman passed out from exhaustion and had to be evacuated to a German senior airman Brandon Fer assigned to the 435th Security forces Squadron at Ramstein air is deploying to Iraq and said he was surprised How much he Learned in Only two i can honestly say i came into it and underestimated Ferrell i didst think i would learn much from but the certain situations that they put you in out Here they really test what youre made what you do know and what you dont know and How you carry yourself in those Situa the exercise organized the Stu dents into which rotated through training stations spread out among the ranges picturesque Hills and in one exer a squad on foot searched for a downed coalition but during the they came across an squads Learned How valuable military working dogs Are on such air teams Are using the dogs increasingly to help detect explosives and find insurgents in Urban areas in during this the dog helped track Down Clawson hid ing in the basically what happens is we get a troop that comes in Here with a Baseline of Zero combat training one to two said master Tammy superintendent of sem bachs regional training we actually Advance them to the Point where they would be Able to go email Scott Schonauer at