National Training Center at Fort Irwin
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Welcome to Medina Wasl located "In the Box" at the Army's Premier National
Training Center at Fort Irwin in the Mojave Desert. This is one of a dozen or
so villages created to look like Iraq or Afghanistan and is used to train for
situational awareness before troops are deployed. The Army has opened this up
for tours to allow the public to see how our soldiers are being trained. The
villages are as realistic as they can make them. |
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Each month several thousand Soldiers go through simulated training exercises
to prepare for deployment. They spend up to 2 weeks being exposed to typical
situations they may encounter. Everything is video taped and after each
situation it is reviewed to tell them what they did right, what they did
wrong and where they can improve. |
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The villagers only speak in Arabic and everything is done to make it as
realistic as possible. Even as we walked through the village as they
villagers come up to us they are only speaking Arabic. In the exercise we
observed they were being trained for their worse day in Iraq complete with
road side bombs, demonstrations and heavy casualties. |
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