Sunday, January 3, 2010
Makua Valley eyed for counterinsurgency, road bomb training
By William Cole
Advertiser Military Writer
The Army wants to spend about $3.7 million to transform Makua Valley into a "world-class" roadside bomb and counterinsurgency training center with convoy live fire along hillside roads, simulated explosions and multiple "villages" to replicate the roadside bomb threat in Iraq and Afghanistan — the No. 1 killer of Americans.
As that occurs, the Army said it also wants to eventually transition some of its storm-the-hill traditional live-fire training from Makua to Pohakuloa Training Area on the Big Island.
The counter-improvised explosive device, or IED, focus
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