America's Elite Special Operators Want A Huge Mock Enemy Bunker Complex To Train In
The Pentagon says there's no other "feasible option" to ensure Delta Force and SEAL Team 6 can adequately train to raid these kinds of hardened sites.
By Joseph TrevithickFebruary 13, 2020
The War Zone
The U.S. military's secretive Joint Special Operations Command wants a dedicated training site where it can practice raiding "complex, hardened facility targets." This terminology typically refers to heavily fortified and general underground sites, such as subterranean bunkers and tunnel complexes. Many potential American adversaries, including North Korea, Iran, China, and Russia, among others, use these types of facilities to protect command and control nodes and stockpiles of weapons of massive destruction or other advanced and critical military assets.
U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) included a request for $14.4 million to build this "training target structure" for Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in its recently released proposed budget for the 2021 Fiscal Year. SOCOM did not say exactly where it wants to build this training site, which it says would cover an area of approximately 19,200 square feet, describing the location as "CONUS [Contiguous United States] unspecified."
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