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I remember being surprised in the early 90s with the lack of MOUT training in the US Army. We tried to do MOUT training at our Company at my suggestion that it is unlikely that we'd be broadcasting on loudspeakers in the middle of a swamp as we mostly did during training. When we went to the Fort Bragg MOUT site we discovered a completely decrepit and unusable site: buildings were arranged in the style of a US city block with conveniently broad roads and we were prohibited from entering most buildings due to safety concerns.
Four months later we were in Somalia without ever having undergone effective MOUT training.
The Army has gotten better but we were still completely unprepared for Iraq, despite having learned exactly the the same lessons in Somalia that we were forced to painstakenly relearn in Iraq.
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