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The Street Fighters
Photography by Charles L. Mussi
i | Marines at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, are getting a taste of the city environment—and learning to survive in it. A new building complex there provides the battlefield where they can hone their skills. They call it MOUT—for military operations in urban terrain. |
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Marines can land or rappel from helicopters onto rooftops and into key areas—here, a view from the third story of one of 31 buildings on the $7.9 million complex. The model here depicts the layout of the 17-acre site. After classroom instruction, the Marines learn to enter, sweep, and secure a structure and then defend it against a counterattack. The buildings in the complex—which include a church, a school, apartment buildings, and an “embassy"—appear authentic, but inside they are bare to the walls.
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