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 ...
It would have been cheaper to just use Detroit. :)
I hope they aren't planning to go into Iraq in force again.
I never realized there were so many terrorists in the USA.
Why not use Detroit? Seems to me our troops got plenty of urban training when we were in Iraq. Maybe this is used to impart that training to newbies.
The 300 acre ‘town’ includes..... a mosque
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Yeah but the troops wont be allowed to shoot up even the fake one...
I’m counting the days until 0bummer leaks the photos of it to the world so we won’t have an advantage.
NJCT ping!
They keep mentioning that it has a mosque, with no mention of a church, but right there in the video, front and center, is a church, unless mosques are now sporting steeples.
In several reports now, not one has mentioned the church.
What an inactivation idea. You would have thought they would have thought of it a long time ago.
FedGov views anyone to the right of Mao Zedong as a potential terrorist. Seriously, conservatives, libertarians, Constitutionalists, evangelical Christians, anti-abortion activists, 2nd Amendment supporters, tax protestors have all been listed in official training documents as potential domestic terrorists. Basically anyone who doesn't want to live under an authoritarian Globalist government.
It’s nice that 0bummer makes sure the world knows all what we’re doing with our military.
Oh. Perfect!
From “law and order” to “law and slaughter” in a generation. Wow.
I guess if the Commander in Chief cannot win an ongoing war the best you can do is Fight Your own self Stateside!
Hey Guys you have a whole Country you can conquer that has been sucking the life out of America! Hey Obama take the gloves off!
AWG...why am I not surprised? That retirement home for Rangers really needs to just go away.
Great idea! :-)
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