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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: dfwgator

LOL, maybe we should suggest to name the fake town at A.P. Hill “Rockridge”.

CC


41 posted on 02/15/2014 2:01:19 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
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To: shove_it

They been doing this for years.

I helped build the town at FT Lewis.


42 posted on 02/15/2014 2:04:52 PM PST by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: shove_it
"The things that we do here at this facility will have a direct and lasting impact on our entire army."

Before that happens will the patriots in the military please(!) get off your asses.

You're already more that a year late.

The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012

Back in 1992 a Lt. Col. (USAF I think) wrote about the future that many back then envisioned.. political corruption, neglect of national issues and existential threats, neglect of military preparedness as the military was used to handle domestic chores neglected by the corrupt ruling class.. until a crisis forced sending a hollowed out military to the Middle East after years of neglect by successive corrupt U.S. administrations. Disaster resulted and the military finally! acted in 2012.

If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!

43 posted on 02/15/2014 2:08:17 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: DugwayDuke
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.

Turrentine Hill. Made many a night combat equipment jump into that DZ. Still had strands of concertina wire from the movie set sticking out of the sand in spots. It looks like it's a Multi-Purpose Range Complex (MPRC) now.

44 posted on 02/15/2014 2:22:21 PM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

“Includes a mosque, eh? How intolerant. /sarc “

That’s so they can practice not hitting it and bowing to it as they pass.


45 posted on 02/15/2014 2:24:55 PM PST by PLMerite
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To: shove_it
The subway carriages even carry the same logo as the carriages in Washington DC.

I'm glad they're only training to kill civilians in Washington, DC...

If they'd just build a replica of the white house and congress, I'd give them a standing O to blow them to hell - and then go do it for real!

46 posted on 02/15/2014 2:28:19 PM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: dfwgator

LOL!


47 posted on 02/15/2014 2:30:25 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As government expands, liberty contracts. - President Ronald W. Reagan)
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To: dfwgator

Rock Ridge—the fake version!

They built that overnight, too!


48 posted on 02/15/2014 2:34:42 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: PLMerite
That’s so they can practice not hitting it and bowing to it as they pass.

First, I laughed.

Then, I cried.

49 posted on 02/15/2014 2:37:20 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Little Bill

In today’s Army, you’d be charged with assault!


50 posted on 02/15/2014 3:03:17 PM PST by SgtHooper (If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
prolly gonna learn how to DEFEND it from infidels...
51 posted on 02/15/2014 3:27:06 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: TADSLOS

“Turrentine Hill. Made many a night combat equipment jump into that DZ. Still had strands of concertina wire from the movie set sticking out of the sand in spots. It looks like it’s a Multi-Purpose Range Complex (MPRC) now.”

Oh, the misspent days of our youth at the Fort Benning School for wayward young men.


52 posted on 02/15/2014 3:30:33 PM PST by DugwayDuke
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To: DugwayDuke

LOL. Yeah, back in the days of youthful immortality.


53 posted on 02/15/2014 4:04:16 PM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Repeal The 17th

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

LOL!

Hope someone gave you a bottle of ba muoi ba (tiger piss) for your effort.


54 posted on 02/15/2014 5:56:15 PM PST by sergeantdave
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To: shove_it

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

Our soldiers and Marines are not goosestepping 50 IQ Nazis who blindly follow orders. Quit slandering our troops, you maggot.


55 posted on 02/15/2014 6:29:35 PM PST by sergeantdave
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To: sergeantdave

Sober up Sarge and apologize for calling me a maggot tomorrow.


56 posted on 02/15/2014 7:16:32 PM PST by shove_it (old Old Guardsman 1962-63)
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To: Count of Monte Fisto

Don’t forget about we vets.


57 posted on 02/15/2014 7:16:44 PM PST by YOMO
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To: Mr. Jeeves

They’re set up to shoot traditional white Americans... not too many of those in Detroit.


58 posted on 02/15/2014 8:24:15 PM PST by GOPJ ( America's drifting into totalitarianism because of left's exploitation of social failures.Greenfie)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy; sickoflibs; Liz
The press mentions the mosque to assure liberal 'useful idiots' this site is training against radical Muslims. It's not. It's a training site to teach soldiers to control and kill American citizens.

The press senses the truth - they slip into their 'we protect democrats' mode. That's why press coverage mentions the mosques but not the church. It's the same code the press uses with crime - if the race isn't mentioned by the MSM, the perp is black. The MSM covers for democrats, democrat criminals and dem victim groups...

We know the truth by what they don't say - by the voids in coverage - by what they don't say.

The 'church' isn't mentioned because the little goons think most of their victims will be traditional American Christians and Jews.

59 posted on 02/15/2014 8:41:47 PM PST by GOPJ ( America's drifting into totalitarianism because of left's exploitation of social failures.Greenfie)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
I never realized there were so many terrorists in the USA.

Christians/Tea Party/Constitutionalists ... the list is long.

60 posted on 02/16/2014 3:56:36 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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