Posted on 04/27/2009 10:20:21 AM PDT by ConorMacNessa
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Afghan guards armed with AK-47s keep watch just outside as a village elder sits in a room with no electricity and tells a U.S. Marine:
“The Taliban are recruiting young unemployed men to plant IEDs and fight the American military.”
Cpl. Adam King sits down, sips some tea and listens attentively. What he says and what he hears could save the lives of his Marines.
This is the scene in Camp Lejeune, in North Carolina, where the 2nd Battalion 8th Marines — known as the 2/8 — have built a simulated Afghan village to prepare American troops for what they will face half a world away.
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Marine ping.
Actually, they could go more realistic and stage on in a Somali village in Minnesota, or an Arab one in Michigan.
They could hire me to act as an Afghani.
It would be like a micro-stimulus. Hang out with Marines, play Marines and terrorists, all while getting paid a bit for it.
I would keep messing up my lines as a villager
evidently” ALLAH KABAR” isn’t a local afghani saying.
:) Thanks for the photos. One of my sons served for years at Polk, Army war games, I used to love to look at this bad guy ID’s.
You can learn a lot from just reading the headlines. I didn’t even know there were any Afghan villages in North Carolina.
God speed to these Marines for a eventual safe return to our blessed shores.
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