Doesn't the US Army have a similar training centre for troops who were headed to Iraq that simulates the urban/MOUT conditions there?
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Israel Trains For The Next War In Lebanon ++http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htinf/articles/20090821.aspx August 21, 2009
Israel is introducing a new training regimen designed to prepare its soldiers for a urban and guerrilla warfare. The key to all this is the construction of novel training centers at military bases throughout the country. This is part of a continuing process of learning lessons from war against Hezbollah in 2006.
During the 2006 war, bunkers inside a forested nature reserve were discovered providing camouflaged positions for Hezbollah rocket launchers. Similar tactics continue to be used by Hezbollah. More recently, an IDF aircraft observed an explosion in Southern Lebanon house. There was a Hezbollah rocket cache there. The Israelis had also noted, months earlier, senior Hezbollah operatives entering a tunnel near the home, then emerging from an exit 700 meters away. It is believed many homes in southern Lebanon are built the same way.
Replicating this environment as realistically as possible, two of these new Israeli training centers, made entirely of rubber, will provide a mock Lebanese village connecting to a forest. (...)
