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Originally Posted by Knightslayer
It's an army training base so I am going to assume it isn't private land.
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Nothing to see here move along.
If this happened in Alberta it was either on CFB Wainwright or CFB Suffield. I know you can hunt in Suffield (more like a cull) but I'm not sure you can hunt in Wainwright.
I would suspect the "Mosque" wasn't sat atop a hill like the Alamo, rather it would be part of a large Training Village type facility. Why a "Mosque"? Well the CAF had been fighting a war in a Muslim country and having that landmark in their training area only makes sense, much like I reckon they would also have had a "Afghan National Police station" an "Afghan local political office building" and any other number of common areas that show up in small villages & towns in your AO.
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Originally Posted by edslunch
Having a crescent on top seems an unnecessary detail
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Realistic training, including the use of realistic landmarks saves lives. This doesn't mean that the CAF (or ####eaters if in Suffield) were targeting the "Mosque" rather it was a point of reference much like other points in town.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...wright.html?rf
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When the soldiers and the actors take their places this fall at the fake Afghan villages in Wainwright, Alta., it will mark the end of an era.
For five years, hundreds of actors and thousands of military personnel have gone through the Wainwright Training Area on sets constructed to resemble villages and life in Afghanistan.
“It’s extremely important to be exposed to the environment before you go into the actual situation,” said Maj. John Page at CFB Wainwright, about 200 km east of Edmonton. “It’s a good chance to practise as a team. They’re putting it all together in one place at one time.”
With the Conservative government sticking to its plans to withdraw active Canadian military engagement by 2011, the training session that begins in September to November at Wainwright will be the last exercise conducted.
About 2,000 military and 500 support workers will participate in the training and interact with the 300 actors who have been hired to play Afghan villagers or translators and the wounded.
In the 1990s, said Maj. Greg Poehlmann, public affairs officer with National Defence based in Kingston, Ont., the military recognized it needed to better reproduce the environment where the soldiers were deployed.
The training exercise and sets are designed to realistically portray everything about life on the base and in villages. Soldiers are equipped with devices that will provide feedback to medical staff, who are also in training to handle injuries found in a real situation.
“It’s a snapshot of everything, from military to transport, signals, communications. They are in vehicles that if all the lights start flashing, they know that vehicle’s been taken out by fire. Streets are narrow so they have to get out and walk through the village,” Poehlmann said Wednesday.
In the past, the villages have been outfitted to resemble those in Bosnia and Serbia. The Afghan villages will remain for now.
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I look forward to seeing the video.