Defence force undergoes firepower skills training

THE Defence Force is reviving its firepower capability lost after the Bougainville crisis, Lieutenant-Colonel Boniface Aruma says.
“With the help of our partners from the Australian army, who we have been training with, our first battalion now has an organisation which is able to give us that fire power capability,” he said.
“It is a training that we have never undertaken before.”
Aruma is the Commanding Officer of the First Royal Pacific Islands Regiment.
He said it was a very important element which provided fire power capability to the battalion.
“Because we have lost this capability for a while, we would like to set it up properly so that we’ll be able to use it in different scenarios,” he said.
“We now have the transition from the dinosaur way of shooting at a range to a more realistic type of shooting, something that is more realistic to this type of present environment,”
Aruma also said the skill and the drill would help prepare soldiers to be able to dispatch weapons effectively.