Fort Irwin Story aired: Thursday, November 08, 2007
In the middle of the California desert the U.S. military has built a number of fake Iraqi villages and filled them with Iraqi-American actors all in the effort to help train troops bound for Iraq under the most realistic conditions possible as they train to conduct house to house searches and detect improvised explosive devices.
We talk with Glenn Zorpette, a reporter with Spectrum Radio, the broadcast edition of IEEE magazine, who spent several days at Fort Irwin watching troops train using the latest techniques and technologies.
