The National Training Center - Fort Irwin, CA
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N 35° 09.377 W 116° 45.893
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Fort Irwin/The National Training Center is a major training area for the US Military.
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Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 01/24/2009
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Fort Irwin & the National Training Center (NTC) is a major training area for the United States Military. Located in the Mojave Desert in northern San Bernardino County, California, the base is part of the Installation Management Command (IMCOM). The opposing force at the NTC is the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, the Blackhorse Regiment, who are stationed at the base to provide an enemy force to units on a training rotation at Fort Irwin. From Wikipedia (
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From the Fort Irwin Official Site (
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Fort Irwin & the National Training Center is a world class training center for America's Soldiers, known for its excellent desert training, vast recreational opportunities, and history. The mission of the National Training Center is to provide tough, realistic, joint and combined arms training in multi-national venues across the full spectrum of conflict set in a contemporary operating environment to assist Commanders in developing trained, competent leaders and Soldiers by presenting them with current problem sets to improve the force and prepare for success in the Global War on Terrorism and future joint battlefields.
The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex is also located at Fort Irwin (
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