Wow: The Army Built a Fake City To Train their Soldiers

[rangerrebew]

June 14, 2019

Wow: The Army Built a Fake City To Train their Soldiers

Not so shocking.
by War Is Boring

The U.S. Army has finished building a 300-acre training area that’s pretty much a miniature city meant to be shot up and blown up in the interest of combat readiness.

The Asymmetric Warfare Training Center at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia cost $96 million and is designed to “replicate complex operational environments,” according to the Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Group, which “owns” the training site.

In addition to the usual firing ranges and administrative facilities, the AWTC has a number of full-size structures, said to include a five-story embassy, bank, school, subway station, train station, helicopter landing zone, bridge and more.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/wow-army-built-fake-city-train-their-soldiers-62507

[Maj. Bill Martin]

June 14, 2019

Wow: The Army Built a Fake City To Train their Soldiers

Not so shocking.
by War Is Boring

The U.S. Army has finished building a 300-acre training area that’s pretty much a miniature city meant to be shot up and blown up in the interest of combat readiness.

The Asymmetric Warfare Training Center at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia cost $96 million and is designed to “replicate complex operational environments,” according to the Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Group, which “owns” the training site.

In addition to the usual firing ranges and administrative facilities, the AWTC has a number of full-size structures, said to include a five-story embassy, bank, school, subway station, train station, helicopter landing zone, bridge and more.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/wow-army-built-fake-city-train-their-soldiers-62507

Good idea.

[Fishrrman]

They should have named the place "Potemkin"...

[Elderberry]

Must be for a continuation of the Jade Helm Exercises.