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

Posted on 02/16/2014 5:01:13 AM PST by ZULU

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

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fakecity; fortaphill; obama; policestate; shtf; usarmy; virginia
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To: Future Snake Eater

Quit slacking and kill us already.

Maybe you could turn it into a Crossfit WOD.


21 posted on 02/16/2014 6:43:41 AM PST by EEGator
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To: The Working Man; All

Reportedly??? Where was that reported? It is not in the article. What the article describes is a modern city. It could just as easily be any large city in Europe or even Canada or Australia.

Since this was built in 2004, where were the screams and yells then? I remember this being mentioned then and it didn’t bother me at all. It still doesn’t, in and of itself. It is not the training site that is problematic but rather what they are training for and against.


22 posted on 02/16/2014 6:53:05 AM PST by Nifster
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To: Liz

Ah honey you need to pick up the phone Alex is calling


23 posted on 02/16/2014 6:54:36 AM PST by Nifster
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To: Nifster

Ut, oh.


24 posted on 02/16/2014 6:57:10 AM PST by Liz
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To: ZULU
So elements in our government who are hostile to the military are going to use that military against American citizens? Not likely. I support this training. The better trained our guys are the better things will go if TSHTF.

“They” might control some brass but they would have to replace almost all the officers and NCO’s in order to gain control of the military. That would take 10-20 years if it were allowed to happen.

25 posted on 02/16/2014 7:24:24 AM PST by thejokker
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To: ZULU

And in other fast breaking news, the Army has issued it’s soldiers REAL BULLETS!


26 posted on 02/16/2014 7:42:06 AM PST by jstaff
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To: Nifster
Nor does it bother me. Our military knows what I have known for years, viz. that if we have an open borders policy (thank you jorge busho), and if we're allowing tens of millions of America's enemies into the country (ragheads), then we are going to experience warfare within our borders. At some point.

What with the ragheads and jorge's buddies, the messycan cartels, the military is quite visionary.

27 posted on 02/16/2014 8:21:20 AM PST by LouAvul (In a state of disbelief as to how liberals destroyed America in a mere 40 years.)
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To: ZULU

Well its important for the military to train to fight the real terrorists. The American public. :-)


28 posted on 02/16/2014 8:23:59 AM 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: thejokker
That would take 10-20 years if it were allowed to happen.

What do think has been going on for the past 10-20 years?

29 posted on 02/16/2014 8:33:34 AM PST by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy
Did they just say “mosque” instead of church so as not to alarm us?

Yes, I think it is pretty clear that was the idea. The signs in the city are all in English, not Arabic.

30 posted on 02/16/2014 9:13:26 AM PST by KittyKares (.)
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To: ZULU

According to a lot of research on the internet there are between 43 to 55 million private gun owners in the US. There are about 800,000 police officers in the US. This results in the number of 122 private gun owners to 1 police officer. Draw your own conclusion.


31 posted on 02/16/2014 10:05:29 AM PST by squalus192 (Single rule of warfare, fight to win!)
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To: ZULU

Just practicing for when Ubama turns them loose on inconvenient US citizens standing in the way of his totalitarian Utopia.


32 posted on 02/16/2014 10:27:46 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Moslems reserve the right to behead anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: VanDeKoik

Detroit?


33 posted on 02/16/2014 12:22:21 PM PST by ZULU (Magua is sitting in the Oval Office. Ted Cruz/Phil Robertson in 2016.)
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

Probably.


34 posted on 02/16/2014 12:22:42 PM PST by ZULU (Magua is sitting in the Oval Office. Ted Cruz/Phil Robertson in 2016.)
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To: thejokker

Some points to ponder:

One of the items to provide a bridge to citizenship for illegal “immigrants” is to serve in the U.S. Military. The U.S. Military ALREADY has a large number of new citizens in its ranks.

Obozo has been purging the higher ranks of the military so the Pentagon more closely resembles HIS views on things, NOT ours.

A set up like this can just as easily be used by the paramilitary Gestapos which have replaced conventional peace officers AS WELL AS Obama’s extra-Constitutional “Civilian Police Forces”, i.e. Homeland Security, TSA, and an OCEAN full of various armed governmental department forces.


35 posted on 02/16/2014 12:27:15 PM PST by ZULU (Magua is sitting in the Oval Office. Ted Cruz/Phil Robertson in 2016.)
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To: jstaff

Just for use against American civilians though, not illegals or Muslims.


36 posted on 02/16/2014 12:28:02 PM PST by ZULU (Magua is sitting in the Oval Office. Ted Cruz/Phil Robertson in 2016.)
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To: Liz

Thanks Liz ... The truth is never an attack.


37 posted on 02/16/2014 12:58:06 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: EEGator

Get a great workout AND kill fellow Americans? Win-win!


38 posted on 02/16/2014 1:11:48 PM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: LouAvul

exactly


39 posted on 02/16/2014 6:23:21 PM PST by Nifster
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To: Apple Pan Dowdy

You're right, that is a church not a mosque. Mosque's have domes, never a steeple like the one they built.

40 posted on 02/17/2014 4:17:30 AM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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