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Jan 24, 2011

Steel targets simulate Afghan insurgents at the Al Brutus training complex within target area 15 North in the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range in California, Jan. 24, 2011. Al Brutus insurgent village, created in August 2009 and named after the call sign of Maj. Cesar Freitas who died in a 2007 Search and Rescue helicopter crash, is now the largest Afghan::r::::n::training complex on the Yuma ranges. “The requirement for Al Brutus was generated by various local users ... to train to theater specific combat tactics requiring an Afghan-type village in which key targets could be designated, engaged and neutralized,” said John Gordon, range plans officer.

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