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Enhanced Mojave Viper, USMC’s premier Pre-
Deployment training event, is conducted
throughout the 932 square miles of live-fire and
maneuver training ranges It involves the largest
Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) facilities
within the Department of Defense. The training is
the product of decades of evolving Marine Corps
training tactics, techniques and procedures. Using
over 950 role players and two working Afghani
villages, Enhanced Mojave Viper tests Marines on
urban warfare and the rigors of the desert.
Enhanced Mojave Viper training is often the last
stop for deploying Marines. Taking advantage of
our harsh desert landscape, this training program
is based on the most accurate environmental
simulation available on American soil.
ENHANCED MOJAVE VIPER
Enhanced Mojave Viper includes training in IED
detection techniques as well as live-fire, combinedarms
combat. The training culminates in a final 72-
hour exercise.
The current training base includes two Afghani
towns: Khalidiyah and Wadi al Sahara. These
towns include shops, mosques and government
buildings fashioned out of reinforced shipping
containers. These villages are brought to life by the
participation of role players and Marines filling the
roles of Afghani citizens.
The role players recreate the environment of the
Middle Eastern villages by wearing traditional
clothing and speaking primarily in Arabic and
broken English. This provides an opportunity for
the Marines to respond and react in mock reallife
situation depending on the character the role
player is enacting, either friendly or combatant.
Additionally the language barrier allows Marines to
practice Arabic phrases.
Enhanced Mojave Viper training is always evolving
to adapt to current situations in the Afghanistan
Area of Operations.
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