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The Voice of the Training Range
Volume 2
No. 1
January 2002
Randi Kahl, Project Director Military Operations
on Urbanized Terrain (MOUT) As our focus this
edition is on the Military Operations on
Urbanized Terrain (MOUT), we feel its
appropriate to introduce Randi Kahl, the Project
Director for MOUT, who is also a member of the
Training Ranges Instrumentation Program
Integrated Project Team (TRIP-IPT). Randi is
responsible for the Joint Readiness Training
Center MOUT site (Shughart-Gordon) and has been
actively supporting the efforts of the Combined
Arms MOUT Task Force (CAMTF). She is STRICOMs
Project Director for Urban Operations to include
all Combat Training Centers (CTCs) and all the
Homestations. Randi can be contacted at (407)
384-5194 for any information related to Urban
Operations.
Our focus this month is on MOUT By Jorge
Rivera, TRIP Team Leader PM TRADE As this issue
goes to press, we have just recently re-focused
our efforts to encompass the entire field of
Training Range Instrumentation Programs (TRIP),
and have decided that this month the focus of the
newsletter will be on the Military Operations on
Urbanized Terrain (MOUT). In this spirit we have
included a number of articles authored by various
personnel who occupy unique positions within the
MOUT programs at a number of different locations.
We believe youll find their individual stories
and perspectives particularly interesting and
informative. We hope you enjoy the material weve
brought to you.
Instrumentation Training Devices Working
Group This is a working group composed of the
User, Material Developers, and Industry Partners
formed to share information and good ideas,
leverage technology and acquisitions in order to
reduce acquisition and sustainment costs. This
group meets every six months, with the next
meeting scheduled to be held in June 02.
MOUT/RT-IDIQ This is a fast response contract
vehicle which features Delivery Order (DO)
Management and allows Source Directed and
Competitive DOs with a processing time and award
date of 7 to 21 Days (depending on type of award,
level of competition and complexity.
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Training Ranges Instrumentation Programs
(TRIP) By Jorge Rivera, TRIP Team Leader PM
TRADE As we begin the New Year, within PM TRADE
we are simultaneously adopting a new look, and a
new structure in our approach to training range
programs. We have evolvde into a new team, the
Training Range Instrumentation Programs-Integrated
Product Team (TRIP-IPT), The team will leverage
not only existing products and technology, but
also personnel capabilities and effort. We feel
this will yield significant benefits. Following
the PM TRADE lead, we are shaping our technical
solutions to conform to the Common Training
Instrumentation Architecture (CTIA). We believe
that this team approach will make the acquisition
effort more efficient allowing us to deliver on
budget and schedule while providing a quality
product that meets the User needs. The focus of
the TRIP is TEAMWORK! and the emphasis is
intentional since is the key to success. The
training of our soldiers is of paramount
importance, especially in light of the world
situation today. Our ability to perform in this
endeavor will be a key contributor to effective
training of our soldiers for decades to come, and
we are dedicated to fielding nothing but the very
best in training ranges.
MOUT Training and Facilities By Mike Mazuk Chief
of Range Division, Ft. Campbell About 6 years ago
I found myself in the Chief of Staffs office
trying to get in to see the new Chief. Along
came the G3, who was wondering what I was doing
up there. I informed him I wanted to meet the new
Chief and invite him down to visit the Training
Support Center. The G3 replied that after I met
the Chief I was to go down to Range Division and
take over as the new Chief of Range Division,
Fort Campbell Kentucky. And so my odyssey began
- to improve Ranges and Training facilities for
the 101st ABN DIV (AA), Fort Campbell, KY.
The previous Chief of Range Division was moving
to take a new position oversees, and did very
little in the way of in-briefing or laying out
the Range Master Plan for the future. We were
able to take an extensive tour around the post
and visited all of the ranges and training
facilities. What became very apparent
during my tour was that the range infrastructure
needed to be improved, and upgraded to provide
facilities needed to train soldiers, improve
combat readiness, and meet the training demands
of the future. When I visited the MOUT Assault
Course (MAC) (Craig Village) I noticed that there
were 22 wooden buildings getting ready to fall
in. This MAC was built in the mid-80s and was
now in a very poor state of repair.
Through the Range Project Review Board I
developed a repair project that was finally able
to repair this facility to at least an amber
condition. Craig Village still did not provide
the challenging situations, nor the facilities
needed to training individual and collective
skills necessary for fighting and winning in an
Urban environment.
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Ft. Campbell (Continued from Page 2)
Being the new guy on the block, I started to
figure out the construction processes and
developed the 1391 document for the Military
Construction Army MOUT Collective Training
Facility. My vision was for a world-class
training facility that would provide a place for
the soldiers and leaders to practice and hone
their urban fighting skills. I traveled to
several facilities around the Army, and reviewed
plans from facilities that the USMC had at their
installations. Key facilities I visited were
Fort Knox and Fort Benning, where several ideas
and infrastructure styles were presented. I also
formed a MOUT Steering Committee, composed of the
trainers and fighters who would ultimately use
the facility. The exciting part of my job
was working the project from all aspects. I had
to develop the requirements while still selling
the project to the leadership who would fight the
funding battles at the higher levels. The
leadership won the funding battle and our MOUT
Steering Committee developed an excellent
training facility. Construction was started in
August of 2000 and completion of Phase I is
expected in February 2002. Phase II of the
project is currently in the FY 05 MCA program.
Targetry and Instrumentation is a key element of
the facility and is a UFR for FY 02 (1.3 Million)
and is in the ARMP for FY 03 at 3 million. Once
Phase I is completed I will begin scheduling the
facility for training. Training will be limited
to force-on-force with MILES devices. The real
training multiplier will be the targetry and
instrumentation. The T/I will provide the
resolution needed to train soldiers and leaders
to fight and win in the Urban Environment.
The attached photos provide an overview of the
construction efforts. The facility will be
memorialized in honor of LTC Pat Cassidy and is
named Cassidy Urban Combat Training Center.
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Mobile Operations Urban Terrain Range Training
Land Program, Mandatory Center of Expertise
(RTLP MCX) By Patricia Hensley, Architect U.S.
Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville
Al. Last year, the Range Training Land
Program, Mandatory Center of Expertise (RTLP MCX)
at the Huntsville Engineering and Support Center
was recognized for its support as POLY
Engineering received one of the prestigious
awards by the American Consulting Engineers
Council (ACEC) for its engineering efforts on the
Zussman Mounted Urban Training Complex at FT
Knox, Ky. In continuation of this engineering
excellence, the RTLP MCX is currently in the
process of designing the Armys next generation
of standard MOUT buildings that will be utilized
worldwide. The Shoot House, Breach Facility,
Urban Assault Course, and Combined Arms
Collective Training Facility, CACTF all make up
the Armys next generation Standard MOUT site.
Zussman Mounted Urban Training
Complex,Ft. Knox, Ky. The RTLP MCXs lead
engineer for MOUT shoot houses and ballistics is
Wallace Watanabe, team leader architect Patricia
Hensley, and program manager Vernon Petty, have
been instrumental in coordinating all efforts on
this standard design effort. Wallace says,
cities will most likely be our next battlefield
in this century, so we are making concerted
efforts to design realistic combat towns The
Shoot House pictured below is a scaled model
which depicts an eight room facility thats
3,200 Sq. Ft. It can be constructed out of a
variety of different materials.
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RTLP MCX (Continued from Page 4)
The Breach Facility is a site with three
stations. Here soldiers will learn various
breaching techniques for door, window and walls.
These three breaching stations are vertical
facades that are typically eight feet tall
separated by earthen berms. Zussman
Mounted Urban Training Complex, Ft. Knox,
Ky. The Urban Assault Course is five stations
consisting of an urban defense building,
underground trainer, an individual and team
trainer, a squad / platoon trainer and finally a
grenadier gunnery trainer. The Urban Combined
Arms Collective Training Facility CACTF is made
up of twenty to twenty-five buildings on
approximately 555 acres (1.5Km x 1.5Km). The
complex contains a warehouse, municipal building,
service station, business, hotel, police
station/jail, church and cemetery, a bank,
townhouses, residences, and a school. The CACTF
is the first facility of its type which combines
both armor and infantry. In addition, its
differs from the last generation of MOUTs because
it encompasses mechanized vehicles like tanks and
Bradley fighting vehicles. Special effects
simulate live combat experience while training
the soldier for the next possible Somalia or
Kosovo. In addition, the facility exposes the
soldier to combined arms training which adds to
the levels of realistic stress, which are not
otherwise present in any other Army or Department
of Defense training facilities. The range is as
realistic a training situation as it can be
without putting soldiers in harms way.
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URBAN OPERATIONS TRAINING STRATEGY Provided by
Jeff Arneson, Ft. Benning, GA The United States
Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC)
formed an urban operations task force in 1999 for
the purpose of developing an overarching urban
operations training strategy for the U. S. Army.
The strategy was completed in January 2001 and
included doctrinal and training publication
updates, recommendations for both new and
upgrades to existing urban training facilities,
all three of the live/virtual/constructive
simulation domains, training ammunition
requirement assessments, and sustainment cost
estimates. The strategy was approved by the
TRADOC commander in March 2001 and is currently
pending final review for approval by the Chief of
Staff of the Army. The major focus of the
strategy revolves around four new facilities
designed to provide individual through battalion
level home station urban operations training.
These new training facilities will allow units to
train soldiers on live demolitions breaching
techniques, building entry and room clearing
techniques under live and blank fire conditions,
limited subterranean training, and an urban
training facility large enough to conduct
combined arms force-on-force collective training
at the battalion/task force level. URBAN ASSAULT
COURSE The Urban Assault Course (UAC) is a live
five-station round-robin training facility
designed to teach basic building entry and room
clearing techniques. Training can be conducted
under blank fire MILES/Special Effects Small Arms
Marking System (SESAMS) or paintball
conditions, live fire grenadier gunnery
engagements, and underground and force-on-force
blank or SESAMS training. The UAC will be
equipped with state-of-the-art three-dimensional
targetry that has plug-and-play capability.
Targets will respond to lethal shot placements
only, and can be re-configured as either
combatants or non-combatants. SHOOT HOUSE The
Shoot House is a 1400 square-foot facility with
interconnecting rooms and hallways. It will be
constructed of bullet absorbing material and will
have an overhead crane system to replace panels
or blocks once they reach the bullet absorption
level. The Shoot House is a live-fire training
facility and will be completely instrumented to
allow full-motion image and audio capture, and
will also have an After-Action Review (AAR)
facility. This facility is designed to train fire
team and squad-sized elements in building entry
and room clearing techniques under live-fire
conditions. BREACH FACILITY The Breach Facility
is a three-station live-demolitions facility
designed to teach explosive door, window and
wall-breaching techniques. The door and window
breach stations consist of eight door and window
frames aligned in a steel I-beam framework. Doors
and windows can be replaced after each training
iteration, and replacement costs were budgeted
for in the overall strategy. The wall breach
station consists of a reinforced concrete wall
with a four-foot square aperture in the center of
the wall. Reduced demolition charges will be used
to blow panels of replaceable material that is
placed over the aperture.
Continued on Page 7 (See Strategy)
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Strategy (Continued from Page 6) COMBINED ARMS
COLLECTIVE TRAINING FACILITY The Combined Arms
Collective Training Facility (CACTF) is the
largest of the four new training facilities at
2.25 square kilometers, and consists of 20 to 26
buildings. This facility was designed to provide
a force-on-force combined-arms training facility
for company team and battalion task force sized
units. The CACTF is also fully instrumented and
has an After-Action Review (AAR) building as part
of the facility. The construction of these new
facilities across the Army will provide units the
opportunity to conduct individual through
battalion task force level urban operations
training at home station locations. The
proliferation of these urban training facilities
across the Army will help ensure our soldiers are
prepared to conduct full spectrum operations in
any urban environment.
Our Thanks Thanks from the staff to Jeff Arneson
at Ft. Benning for the comprehensive material
supplied to us in support of the CAMTF subject.
It is most welcome, and should be quite
interesting and informative to our readers.
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Combined Arms Collective Training Facility

• Facility
• Standard Design
• 1.5km x 1.5km Trng Area
• 0ver 250 Rooms
• 20-26 building
• Train a up to a Bn TF
• Includes Subterranean
• Tunnel System

• Instrumentation
• AAR facility
• Day/Night Capable
• Indoor outdoor image capture
• Data Collection
• Storage,edit,replay capable
• Reconfigurable indoor cameras
• Can be Linked with Virtual and
• Constructive Simulations

• Targetry
• Reconfigurable
• (plug play)
• Precision Targets and non-
• precision Targets
• Vehicle Targets
• Thermal Signature
• Realistic Response to Hits
• TES/SESAM Capable

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Shoot House

• Facility
• Standard design
• 1400 sq ft
• 9 rooms
• Train a platoon size
• Multiple entry points
• Supports breaching tasks
• Supports multiple scenarios
• Element protection

• Instrumentation
• Portable AAR Equip.
• Image capture
• Day/night capable
• Indoor
• Data collection
• Storage,edit,replay
• capable

• Targetry
• Reconfigurable (plug play)
• 3 Dimensional human targets
• Thermal signature
• Realistic response to hits
• TES/SESAM/SA capable

Breach Facility
STATION 1 DOOR BREACHING
STATION 2 WINDOW BREACHING
STATION 3 WALL BREACHING

• Targetry
• None

• Instrumentation
• None

• Facility
• Standard design
• Accommodates concurrent
• training
• Accommodates all four
• breaching tasks

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Our goals with this Newsletter As we go to press
with the second edition of our newsletter, and
the first of the New Year 2002, wed like to
first thank all of the contributors of material
for this edition. It is the variety of
information and the specific perspectives of the
writers that make for interesting reading.
Without this cooperation from the contributors, a
vehicle such as this would not be
possible. Secondly, wed like to reiterate our
purpose in publishing the newsletter to begin
with. As we said in the last edition, ... through
the use of a tool such as a periodic newsletter,
bring forth a message which will encourage
communications amongst the members of the team,
bring assurance to the users who will ultimately
use the new training ranges, that the result will
be a tool that will ensure that trainees will
complete their courses more efficiently and
effectively trained than ever before? We
believed that through the use of a newsletter
that we can assure all the stakeholders that our
team is headed in the right direction. If we
regularly let all concerned parties have
visibility of what were doing, and how were
going about it, it should instill confidence that
we will complete our task on time, within budget
and with a quality product that will be the envy
of all those who dont have it. In short, we are
confident that we will succeed, and were willing
to let everyone watch us do it! We continue to
adhere to this belief, and with this in mind, we
bring you our Second Edition. Enjoy!
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