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US army builds fake city to shoot at during training
Telegraph ^ | 13 Feb 2014 | Lucy Kinder

Posted on 02/15/2014 11:49:38 AM PST by shove_it

The US army has built a fake city designed to be used during combat training exercises. The 300 acre 'town' includes a five story embassy, a bank, a school, an underground subway and train station, a mosque, a football stadium, and a helicopter landing zone.

Located in Virginia, the realistic subway station comes complete with subway carriages and the train station has real train carriages. The subway carriages even carry the same logo as the carriages in Washington DC. There are also bridges and several other structures which can be transformed into different scenarios. The $96 million is designed to meticulously "replicate complex operational environments and develop solutions"...

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: asw; awg; fakecity; fortaphill; military; policestate; sonise; usarmy
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To: shove_it

Film clip:

http://www.dvidshub.net/video/320460/awtc-opens-enhance-awgs-capabilities#.Uv_PXksUtmV


21 posted on 02/15/2014 12:36:23 PM PST by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: shove_it
Commander's quote from the PR video (interspersed with b-roll of the obviously American city mockup, including english signage):

“So when you think about the transition that we're gonna go through here. Is to transition from an Army of execution; doing what we've got to do. To an Army of preparation. To be ready for what comes next. That's where the importance of this facility really comes in.”

Col John P. Petkosek
Asymmetric Warfare Group Commander
Ft. A.P. Hill VA

My, my, my...
22 posted on 02/15/2014 12:36:56 PM PST by rpierce (We have taglines now? :)
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To: shove_it

I assaulted a fake Vietnamese village at Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia in 1970.


23 posted on 02/15/2014 12:43:03 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: rpierce

ABOUT THE AWG:

http://www.awg.army.mil/awg/about-us.html


24 posted on 02/15/2014 12:55:30 PM PST by shove_it (long ago Orwell and Rand warned us of ObamaÂ’s America)
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To: shove_it

I was stationed at Ft. A.P. Hill Va. for the last three months of my tour of duty with the US Army. Sept. 1969 to Jan. 1970. At the time, it was approximately 15,000 acres of real estate located off Rt. 301 in Bolling Green, Va. It was used as a reserve training base. The military also maintained a beautiful hunting lodge that was used by the elites. (military and civilian) It doubled as a game preserve. Quail hunting was a popular sport. Deer hunting was also popular. The US Army had a taxidermist on staff at this place. I was in the Military Police at the time and was transferred there for the hunting season in the fall of 69. Prime Virginia property as I recall, and a good place to train troops. Many good times were had in Fredericksburg Va. As I recall, there were about 3000 girls at the Mary Washington College.(now University)It was a nice place to spend the last three months of a miserable three years.


25 posted on 02/15/2014 12:55:59 PM PST by MountainYankee
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Yep. The profile and architecture is domestic.


26 posted on 02/15/2014 12:56:06 PM PST by Psalm 144 (Capitol to the districts: "May the odds be ever in your favor.")
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To: shove_it

27 posted on 02/15/2014 12:56:45 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Repeal The 17th

I trained for riot control at Fort Myer, VA in August 1963. Thankfully we didn’t have to use it.


28 posted on 02/15/2014 1:02:34 PM PST by shove_it (old Old Guardsman 1962-63)
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To: Repeal The 17th

“I assaulted a fake Vietnamese village at Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia in 1970.”

Remember the Green Beret base in “The Green Berets”? I’m talking the one with the pagoda where John Wayne lead the relief party?

Well, I defended that hill complete with Pagoda in 1971. Little known fact, “The Green Berets” was filmed at Fort Benning. We defended the hill in “mech infantry platoon in the delaying operation” training.


29 posted on 02/15/2014 1:07:14 PM PST by DugwayDuke
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To: shove_it

I lived in proximity to A.P. Hill for many years. Helicopter assault night ops made the entire house shake as they thundered overhead shuttling between Quantico and Hill. They’ve been doing this for years, and I’ve always believed it to be for CONUS ops. Help or subdue us? Time will tell. Soon.


30 posted on 02/15/2014 1:11:16 PM PST by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: shove_it

It’s been there for years. We trained there when I was a cadet at VMI.


31 posted on 02/15/2014 1:14:58 PM PST by vmivol00 (I won't be reconstructed.)
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To: vmivol00

It’s an update to the old city that was there 20 years ago.


32 posted on 02/15/2014 1:16:41 PM PST by vmivol00 (I won't be reconstructed.)
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To: MountainYankee

I spent a delightful couple weeks at A.P. Hill in the winter of 1962-63 maintaining my infantry readiness while serving with The Old Guard. There were no girls involved although I did pull debutant escort duty a few times. The most memorable one was a niece of LBJ’s who, thankfully I didn’t have to arm wrestle for the bar tab.


33 posted on 02/15/2014 1:17:11 PM PST by shove_it (old Old Guardsman 1962-63)
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To: dfwgator

Chuckle.

That’s the set for “Blazing Saddles”. The landscape didn’t look like Ft. A.P. Hill.


34 posted on 02/15/2014 1:22:21 PM PST by shove_it (old Old Guardsman 1962-63)
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To: shove_it

I was at Fort Riley in the late 60’s. Several riots had taken place across the U.S. They had an area of old WWII barracks that were abandoned. We practiced riot control in the streets around these buildings. There was another area out in the boonies that had a couple of buildings where we would practice. My last official duty in the service was as a rioter.


35 posted on 02/15/2014 1:27:06 PM PST by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: Repeal The 17th

I assaulted real VN villages in 1965 to 1968, learning experience.


36 posted on 02/15/2014 1:27:21 PM PST by Little Bill
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To: Mr. Jeeves

“There are also bridges and several other structures which can be transformed into different scenarios.”

Especially warfare agains’t the real terrorists. The American public.


37 posted on 02/15/2014 1:27:28 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: PowderMonkey
Help or subdue us? Time will tell. Soon.

Ditto that! My brief experience in the military is that soldiers follow orders, period.

38 posted on 02/15/2014 1:34:34 PM PST by shove_it (old Old Guardsman 1962-63)
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To: shove_it

This one may be the latest, and bigger that most, but this is not a new idea. The U. S. Army has been training it’s soldiers to fight for many years. They train to fight in the mountains, the desert, rolling plains, woodlands, in and around rivers, in extremes of cold and heat, and sometimes in urban areas. Most Army vets, especially infantry, who spent any real time in service have probably been through MOUT training, or the more descriptive “Combat in the City”.


39 posted on 02/15/2014 1:38:03 PM PST by jstaff
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To: shove_it

Well, unless you can guarantee our forces will never have to fight in an urban environment, they need something like this.


40 posted on 02/15/2014 1:46:00 PM PST by Hugin
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