tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36435530.post8110485353028489169..comments2024-01-30T02:21:59.326-06:00Comments on Ben and Bawb's Blog: Iowa Guard ends urban war exercise amid outcryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36435530.post-29751614345412444582009-03-02T18:26:00.000-06:002009-03-02T18:26:00.000-06:00Maybe the problem with MOUT is that they would hav...Maybe the problem with MOUT is that they would have to staff the center with "extras"--I mean pay people to act the part of frightened townspeople. I think the Marines do something like that for terrorist kidnapping exercises.<BR/><BR/>I agree with Bob's comment. I am not sure that training in a US town, with Americans who speak English is great training for the kind of urban warfare I would think the Guard would face.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36435530.post-51285337874853349192009-03-02T17:12:00.000-06:002009-03-02T17:12:00.000-06:00I don't suspect any grand conspiracy on the part o...I don't suspect any grand conspiracy on the part of the Guard leadership either. It's just nice that somebody is paying attention, and that the government is getting the trust from the people which it has earned. <BR/><BR/>I'm all for good training for the boys, too, but I looked it up and the Guard just spent another $1.5 million in 2007 on upgrades to their MOUT site at Camp Dodge. Isn't this type of training just what the MOUT site is there for?<BR/><BR/>What is disturbing to me is that the recently-built big fancy Naval Surface Warfare Center MOUT site looks just like Mainstreet, USA and not anything remotely like Fallujah or Kabul.Bawbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10194337224433517477noreply@blogger.com