Why Did The U.S. Army Build A 'Fake U.S. City' For Combat Training?

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US Army Builds Fake City To Shoot At During Training -- The Telegraph

The American army has built an entire fake city including a school, a mosque and a football stadium

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

There are also bridges and several other structures which can be transformed into different scenarios.

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Update: Here’s the U.S. Army’s $96 Million, 300-Acre Fake City in Virginia — Complete With Subway Station, Football Stadium and Mosque — for Terrorism Combat Training -- The Blaze

My Comment: Quoting Pogo .... "We have found the enemy, and he is us".

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Monday, February 17, 2014