22 September 2009
MANAMA: The Maritime Expeditionary Security Squadron Three, Detachment of Bahrain on September 20 marked the installation of a $1.5m Littoral Combat Laser Shot Weapons Simulator (LCLSWS) used to train and qualify sailors in land and waterborne gunnery in support of security operations in the US 5th Fleet area of responsibility.
MANAMA: The Maritime Expeditionary Security Squadron Three, Detachment of Bahrain on September 20 marked the installation of a $1.5m Littoral Combat Laser Shot Weapons Simulator (LCLSWS) used to train and qualify sailors in land and waterborne gunnery in support of security operations in the US 5th Fleet area of responsibility.
"We can use this particular simulator to qualify our sailors," said Master Chief Master-At-Arms Wallace Pippen of Mobile Security Squadron Three.
"To qualify on a boat at sea requires various weather conditions that don't happen often out here. We can create all of them on the simulator and we can simulate real life events that have actually happened," Pippen said.
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