With faux insurgents, fake bombs, real concrete barriers and a little city of tents, training to prepare Reservists and National Guard members for Iraq is becoming more realistic. Over the past few months, one 40-acre section of Fort Dix has been transformed into “Forward Operating Base,” a camp with new gravel roads and 100 tents that replicates an Army base in Iraq. Similar training bases are going up at installations across the country. On Thursday, the Army offered civilian base employees and the media a relatively rare glimpse at how the Army trains soldiers to fight in an Iraq where insurgent fighting continues to add to the American death toll. Fort Dix has trained more mobilizing part-time soldiers than any other base since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Before the camp was built, soldiers training at Dix stayed in barracks and rode uneventfully on buses to each day’s drill. Full Story
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