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Tomahawks Train in SoCal

Mar-21-2009 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

The Northwest Guardian provides an update on the 1-23 INF, 3/2 SBCT as it trains in California.

There are few places Soldiers can train that offer the realism of what it is like to walk through the neighborhood streets of Iraq. One place that does provide troops that heightened sense of anything can happen at any time is the Southern California Logistics Airport, formerly known as George Air Force Base.

And 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, in combination with training at Marine Corps bases at Twentynine Palms and Camp Pendleton, took advantage of the vacant base during a three-week training event.

George AFB opened in 1943 and remained a vital base for Air Force training until it fell victim to the mass closures of military installations in the early 1990s.


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