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The visit to Fort Bliss seemed to lift the spirits of the soldiers.
The business leaders watched as the parttime "citizen soldiers" - some of whom are their employees - went through a series of intense drills that involved responding to a detention center riot, confronting an angry mob at a checkpoint and escaping a Humvee that spins around on a rôtisserie before stopping upside down. The 10 weeks of training is taking place on McGregor Range, a stretch of New Mexico desert within Fort Bliss that was developed to look and feel like Iraq - complete with temperatures in excess of 100 degrees, sounds of bullets and bombs and even civilian role players dressed as Iraqi citizens, insurgents and suicide bombers.See the full content of this document
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Executives Watch 'Citizen Soldiers' Prepare for War in Iraq
FORT BLISS, TEXAS -A group of New Jersey business executives got a close look at what it's like to prepare for the war in Iraq, when they jetted to Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, and stood inches from training New Jersey National Guard members scheduled to deploy to Iraq at the end of the month.
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