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Defence forces at Dublin s famous Poolbeg station
Amid dense smoke from smoke bombs, what sounded like real-life gunfire from blank ammunition rang out in the area for several hours yesterday morning as 41 soldiers ranging in age from 21 to 37 took part in the exercise, using what the military terms a “3D battleground in an urban setting”.
The exercise is designed to train army privates from the 2 Brigade Training Centre at Cathal Brugha Barracks in Rathmines to move up to the next rank to corporal as part of a Non Commissioned Officer (NCO) training course, explained military spokesman Capt Risteard Byrne.
If successful, they could be deployed as peacekeepers in hotspots like Syria where they would go on to lead others in peacekeeping operations overseas, he said.