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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      Master Sgt. Jeffery Hackworth addresses graduates of the first Afghan Fire Instructor Course during a ceremony Oct. 31, 2013 at Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan. The five-day class was developed by NATC-A advisors and graduated 13 Afghan Air Force and Afghan National Army firefighters as certified instructors. The graduates can now certify additional firefighters at their home fire stations. Hackworth is the NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan fire adviser.131031-F-BX031-007
                        
                        
                        Master Sgt. Jeffery Hackworth addresses graduates of the first Afghan Fire Instructor Course during a ceremony Oct. 31, 2013 at Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan. The five-day class was developed by NATC-A advisors and graduated 13 Afghan Air Force and Afghan National Army firefighters as certified instructors. The graduates can now certify additional firefighters at their home fire stations. Hackworth is the NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan fire adviser.
                
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        Master Sgt. John Smith (left) and Mr. John Ring, NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan advisers, congratulate an Afghan Air Force graduate of the first Afghan Fire Instructor Course during a ceremony Oct. 31, 2013 at Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan. The five-day class was developed by NATC-A advisors and graduated 13 AAF and Afghan National Army firefighters as certified instructors. The graduates can now certify additional firefighters at their home fire stations.131031-F-BX031-032
                        
                        
                        Master Sgt. John Smith (left) and Mr. John Ring, NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan advisers, congratulate an Afghan Air Force graduate of the first Afghan Fire Instructor Course during a ceremony Oct. 31, 2013 at Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan. The five-day class was developed by NATC-A advisors and graduated 13 AAF and Afghan National Army firefighters as certified instructors. The graduates can now certify additional firefighters at their home fire stations.
                
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Afghan air force graduates first fire instructorsPublished Nov. 5, 2013
                    
                    By Capt. Anastasia Wasem
                    
                    
                    NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan Public Affairs
            **KABUL, Afghanistan (AFNS) --**Firefighters from both the Afghan Air Force and the Afghan National Army completed and graduated from the first fire instructor course offered in Afghanistan during a ceremony Oct. 31 at Kabul International Airport, Afghanistan.
Thirteen students, from four different locations around Kabul, graduated the course taught by fire advisers from NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan. The graduates are now certified to teach other Afghan firefighters at their home fire stations.
"The words Shohna-ba-Shohna ('shoulder-to-shoulder' in Dari) could not be any truer than right now," stated Master Sgt. Jeffery Hackworth, a NATC-A fire adviser, at the graduation ceremony. "Now all of you have gone from student, to teacher. You can go back to your base, train your firefighters and sign off on core tasks and upgrade training. This is a huge step towards a self-sustaining Afghan air force fire service."
The five-day course covered topics such as demonstrating the ability to deliver instructions effectively, using and adapting lesson plans, various learning processes, methods of instruction, organizing the learning environment, testing and feedback, record keeping and roles and responsibilities of the department training managers. In addition, the students were also required to pass a written and practical examination.
"I am very happy for this graduation," said an AAF fire instructor from Pohantoon-e-Hawayee "Air University" in Kabul. "The mentors taught us a lot and now we have information and lessons that we are able to take back to our units to teach. By having classes like this we are each able to continue to teach additional students."
The course, despite being the first of its kind in Afghanistan, went from concept to implementation in only 45 days. The main goal for the course was to create a standard to be used by all agencies within Afghanistan to train and instruct firefighters. 
The NATC-A advisors have also developed the first-ever fire inspector course to begin in November as well as a fire chief course scheduled to begin in December.Afghanistan 



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