🌱 What new high-tech training changes are coming to Fort Irwin?
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- What new high-tech training changes are coming to Fort Irwin?
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📰 News we're reading
• Combat Training Center Updates Boost Unit Readiness (ausa.org) — Training at Fort Irwin’s National Training Center is being upgraded with more realistic opposing forces and improved digital instrumentation to better mirror modern threats. Leaders say these changes will capture far more data from each rotation, sharpen unit readiness, and keep Fort Irwin at the center of the Army’s toughest large-scale training for brigades rotating through the Mojave Desert. 
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