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I used to think laser tag was kinda lame, but these guys really get into it!

Apparently, the US military has set up an entire region to look like places and towns that soldiers might encounter over-seas. This is the final test in their training.

This is the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, deep in the backwoods of Louisiana – a 100,000-acre US Army training facility that simulates the Middle East in minute detail and on a massive scale. Every year, this literal theater of war is one of the last stops for 44,000 Army and National Guard soldiers before they deploy to Iraq or Afghanistan. - Wired 14.06: Baghdad, USA

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