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Feb 12: Train the Force: Tunnel Raid at the National Training Center

by Mark Murrmann/ZUMA Press

As part of their training prior to going to Iraq, members of the 256th Battalion of the Louisiana National Guard participate in a tunnel raid exercise at the National Training Center, located at Ft. Irwin, in the Mojave Desert. The soldiers are tasked with raiding a heavily armed tunnel complex, finding the leader of the insurgents and, if possible, capturing him alive.

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