Marines to Train at New Israeli Combat Center--Why Not? We US Taxpayers Paid for It

Tweet Usreal (or is it Israerica) combining efforts in the Global War Against Everyone but Themselves (GWAET). Read about it in the Marine Times here: http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2007/06/marine_israel_combattraining_070624/

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LOVED THIS PARA:
"Lessons from Lebanon
"Located at the Tze’elim training base less than nine miles east of Rafah, a terrorist-ridden smugglers’ haven that straddles the Gaza-Egyptian border, Baladia naturally resembles the sandy, arid terrain of the Palestinian coastal strip. At the moment, however, Lebanon and Syria are the highest-priority threat theaters, and creative engineering is required to transform the area into what IDF officers here call “Hezbollahland.”

BEGINNING PORTION OF ARTICLE BELOW:

"BALADIA CITY, Israel — In a new, elaborate training center in the Negev desert, Israeli troops — and someday, U.S. Marines and soldiers — are preparing for the wide range of urban scenarios they may confront.

"Here, at Israel’s new National Urban Training Center, the Israeli Defense Force’s Ground Forces Command is preparing forces to fight in four theaters: Gaza, Lebanon, the West Bank and Syria.

"Built by the Army Corps of Engineers and funded largely from U.S. military aid, the 7.4-square-mile generic city — balad, in Arabic, means village — consists of 1,100 basic modules that can be reconfigured by mission planners to represent specific towns.