Hmmmmm:
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
Now
I wonder who they think is the enemy in those
training scenarios ...
As much as I want to believe that everything is going to be alright, I know in the back of my mind that it isn't...
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, it is resembling DC...
ReplyDeleteDuring the Vietnam War there were training facilities that resembled Viet villages. There was a reason for that. And for this ..........
ReplyDeleteI may or may not have a problem with it looking like DC.
ReplyDeleteIs it a defender's training facility or an attacker's?
I can't see how this turns out well.
ReplyDeleteInsurrection training camp?
ReplyDeleteYeah, going STRAIGHT down the rabbit hole... sigh
ReplyDeleteAnd that "mosque" in the picture sure looks like what most folks call a "church"
ReplyDeleteThis story isn't sourced. Where did it come from?
ReplyDelete@who+dares+wings, it's from the London Daily Telegraph. The link is in my post. Where they get the information from is perhaps anyone's guess, but they have quotes from the DoD.
ReplyDeleteCue the "the military won't shoot it out with the American people" arguments.
ReplyDeleteExcept that from the Whiskey Rebellion, to Harper's Ferry, to the Civil War, to the miner's strikes in Colorado to the civil rights movement, they have done exactly that, every time they've been called to do so.