Some of Canada's special forces troops will be getting a break from the Canadian winter when they attend a
new training camp located in Roswell, New Mexico. I hope the little green men don't mind noisy neighbors!
It’s got a grounded 747 with no engine, fake villages that can be stocked with speakers of unfamiliar languages, and 300,000 acres of some of the most Afghanistan-like desert-and-mountain terrain that money can buy.
And next month, the training camp built upon a decommissioned army base in New Mexico will be taken over by about 150 visiting special-operations soldiers from north of the border.
There, Canada’s most secretive military units will get a respite from the winter, while they keep up with the kind of training that their military masters in Ottawa are loath to highlight.
According to a new $900,000 contract tender posted on a federal government procurement site, they will refine their standard special-operations skills – such as how to storm hijacked airplanes, how to parachute from aircraft, and how to fire and react to live ammunition.
They will also delve into specific lessons drawn from the Afghanistan conflict – including learning how to rappel from helicopters during night raids, how to capture and question foreign enemies, and how to make sense of surveillance drawn from drone planes.
For all of this, the Department of National Defence is turning to Matrix International, a company that has taken over former U.S. Air Force facilities in Roswell, N.M., a town that, according to urban legend, was visited by space aliens in 1947.
By: Shelldrake
Some of Canada's special forces troops will be getting a break from the Canadian winter when they attend a new training camp located in Roswell, New Mexico. I hope the little green men don't mind noisy neighbors!
So Brant, when are we going to have a GrogNews staff retreat at this facility?
ReplyDeleteWe could do some hands-on T&E of each other's gear, write some great range reports, etc. It would produce weeks of great material for the blog!
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when you figure out a way to monetize the site (without us going to jail) so we can pay for it... Oh, and when you start writing for us regularly again! hahahaha :)
ReplyDeleteI went on a bit of a shopping spree and have a LOT of new gear to write about, but haven't been able to make it to the range. As usual, work is a factor and so is my guilt about taking a day away from the family.
ReplyDeleteAs far as monetizing the site, isn't figuring that kind of stuff out the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher's job? :)
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I was specifically looking for ideas to monetize it without going to jail. I can think of plenty of ways to do it, but it might involve some of us in deep doodoo. :)
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