编者注：这篇文章是为我们的12月刊撰写的，并于11月5日在胡德堡拍摄的那天播出，夺走了13人的生命，并受伤了20人。德克萨斯州建筑在令人发指的暴力行为中，对受伤或杀害的人的家庭表示最深切的同情。

阿富汗战争的升级和伊朗的核扩散强调了对新军队训练设施的需求，例如4月在德克萨斯州中部城市的美国陆军培训邮政上完成的1760万美元联合武器集体培训设施，该设施于4月在胡德堡完成基林。

“没有太多的其他地方有这种类型的城市training facility, which is a replica of a Middle East village,” says Samuel Parker, area engineer for the Central Texas area office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which managed construction. “It has 28 different mock buildings – including a service station, clinic, radio station, hotel, strip mall, bank, apartment complex, school, mosque, residences, City Hall and police station. It looks like something you would find in Iraq or Saudi Arabia, someplace in the Middle East,” Parker says.

与340平方米的胡德（Fort Hood）的340平方米足迹相比，这个占地45英亩的遗址似乎很小，但CACTF在堡垒的动员任务中起着不可或缺的作用。帕克说：“在胡德堡有58,000名士兵在过去的七八年中一直部署到中东。”他补充说，外部单位也可能被带入训练周期。

帕克说，这些建筑物实际上是空心的贝壳，有一些内部细节，例如楼梯间，使士兵能够练习模拟“现实生活”情况所需的培训。

Fort Hood的Range Planner说，该设施具有用于培训目的的内部和外部摄像机，扬声器系统和一些自动化目标。纳瓦罗说：“该设施是为公司规模的军事部队建造的。”他补充说，这不是现场火灾设施，这意味着这些结构并非建立在弹道或抗爆炸性的标准上。

The Fort Hood CACTF is one of several Middle East replica facilities used by the Army for training, but it is the only one that features an embassy building, Navarro says.

Additionally, roads throughout the “village” are built to withstand heavy traffic such as tanks, Parker says. “Most of the roads are gravel, except right in “town,” where we installed 8- to 10-in. concrete paving in the radiuses where vehicles turn,” says Bobby Jones, federal team leader for the general contractor, Emerson Construction of Temple. “We also built one bridge that crosses a creek.”

它使用所有钢筋混凝土，是为德克萨斯州运输规范部门建造的。

In addition to the 28 replica buildings, Emerson constructed four classrooms and installed all infrastructure, including wiring for surveillance equipment, water and roads. Although Emerson has built several training ranges at Fort Hood, the CACTF was unique for the contractor. “We’ve built a lot of ranges there for all kind of infantry training, tank firing and digital, multipurpose ranges,” Jones says. “But this was our first one like this.”

琼斯说，艾默生（Emerson）在山姆·休斯顿堡（Fort Sam Houston）和圣安​​东尼奥（San Antonio）的拉克兰空军基地（Lackland Air Force Base）进行了许多军事工作，以及沃思堡地区的项目。新利18备用网址他补充说：“目前，我们工作的65％至70％是公开的。”