NTC Opening New Urban Training Site

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NTC Opening New Urban Training Site
Army News Service | December 06, 2007

FORT IRWIN, Calif. - Soldiers will soon begin training on what Fort Irwin officials say will one day be the largest Military Operations in Urban Terrain site in the Army inventory.

The $12 million site includes 41 main buildings, including a government complex and a consulate and another 24 smaller structures such as guard towers - more buildings than a Combined Arms Collective Training Facility typically has. The Fort Irwin project is nonstandard, but is specific to what the National Training Center is trying to achieve.

Fort Irwin teamed with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District and Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, to design and build the MOUT site. In October, just eight months from the start of construction, phase one was completed and turned over to the installation. The streets were paved just before Thanksgiving.

Phase one, though, is just the beginning, NTC officials said.

"When finished, there will be some 232 buildings," said Tim Reischl, deputy operations officer at Fort Irwin. "Partnerships with reserve components and local initiatives will add another couple hundred buildings. When all four phases are complete, we will have nearly 500 buildings. We wanted a very large site to train an Army brigade."


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