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With Cold War battlefield tactics a thing of the past and troops required to weed out the enemy holed up in the middle of bustling cities, Anteon responded with Mobile Military Operations on Urban Terrain (Mobile MOUT).
These portable facilities simulate terror war realities and are able to deploy to most military theaters and offer soldiers reallife training simulations close to the battlefield.
"Mobile MOUT offers several advantages over conventional brick and mortar MOUT training facilities," said Jerry Bradford, director of business development at Anteon.
The ability to relocate the entire training facility and reconfigure single rooms within the facility or the entire site is extremely cost effective and is one the equipment's primary advantages. It also offers the same technology level as a permanent training site.
Anteon introduced Mobile MOUT at the June 2002 United States Army Infantry Conference at Fort Benning, Ga. In December 2002, the Defense Department ordered sites built in Kuwait and in Bagram, Afghanistan, to support Operation Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
Staff Sgt. Jim Bagnell of the 416th Engineer Command told the American Forces Press Service that...