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okay, hold on, this story is wacky. ATTN NAD
People....
Mock Iraqi Villages in Mojave Prepare Troops for Battle
Get ready:
In a 1,000-square-mile region on the edge of Death Valley, Arab-Americans, many of them from the Iraqi expatriate community in San Diego, populate a group of mock villages resembling their counterparts in Iraq.
American soldiers at forward operating bases nearby face insurgent uprisings, suicide bombings and even staged beheadings in underground tunnels.
Your tax dollars at work...way out there past the "World's Largest Thermometer" in Baker, CA.
Recently, the soldiers here, like their counterparts in Iraq, have been confronted with Sunni-Shiite riots. At one village, a secret guerrilla revolt is in the works.
With actors and stuntmen on loan from Hollywood, American generals have recast the training ground at Fort Irwin so effectively as a simulation of conditions in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past 20 months that some soldiers have left with battle fatigue and others have had their orders for deployment to the war zones canceled.
In at least one case, a soldier's career was ended for unnecessarily "killing" civilians.
"But, sir, they were just extras from Barstow!"
The troops who come here are at the heart of a vast shift in American war-fighting strategy, a multiBILLION-dollar effort to remodel the Army on the fly.
Here, the Army is relearning how to fight, shifting from its historic emphasis on big army-to-army battles to the more subtle tactics of defeating a guerrilla insurgency.
Enter...Apollo Creed.
It is a marriage of military technology and Hollywood fakery; some 350 Arabic-speaking Iraqi-Americans and plainclothes Nevada National Guardsman live here almost year-round to offer American trainees what one officer described as "a vortex of chaos."
The insurgents even get acting lessons, coached by Carl Weathers, best known for his portrayal of the boxer Apollo Creed in the "Rocky" films.
People....
Mock Iraqi Villages in Mojave Prepare Troops for Battle
Get ready:
In a 1,000-square-mile region on the edge of Death Valley, Arab-Americans, many of them from the Iraqi expatriate community in San Diego, populate a group of mock villages resembling their counterparts in Iraq.
American soldiers at forward operating bases nearby face insurgent uprisings, suicide bombings and even staged beheadings in underground tunnels.
Your tax dollars at work...way out there past the "World's Largest Thermometer" in Baker, CA.
Recently, the soldiers here, like their counterparts in Iraq, have been confronted with Sunni-Shiite riots. At one village, a secret guerrilla revolt is in the works.
With actors and stuntmen on loan from Hollywood, American generals have recast the training ground at Fort Irwin so effectively as a simulation of conditions in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past 20 months that some soldiers have left with battle fatigue and others have had their orders for deployment to the war zones canceled.
In at least one case, a soldier's career was ended for unnecessarily "killing" civilians.
"But, sir, they were just extras from Barstow!"
The troops who come here are at the heart of a vast shift in American war-fighting strategy, a multiBILLION-dollar effort to remodel the Army on the fly.
Here, the Army is relearning how to fight, shifting from its historic emphasis on big army-to-army battles to the more subtle tactics of defeating a guerrilla insurgency.
Enter...Apollo Creed.
It is a marriage of military technology and Hollywood fakery; some 350 Arabic-speaking Iraqi-Americans and plainclothes Nevada National Guardsman live here almost year-round to offer American trainees what one officer described as "a vortex of chaos."
The insurgents even get acting lessons, coached by Carl Weathers, best known for his portrayal of the boxer Apollo Creed in the "Rocky" films.
lizard
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ORIGASMI THE SENSUAL ART OF FOLDING PAPER
By SCOTT STEVENS
TOKYO -- "Now you fold the paper this way, and then you fold it over like this -- and then, if you've done it right, you will barely be able to concentrate!"
So exclaimed Miraka Yong, demonstrating the ancient art form she made famous in her Japanese best-seller, Origasmi -- The Sensual Art of Folding Paper.
"Paper is like a lover, very soft, very sensual," Yong says. "Yet it has a cutting edge if you mishandle it.
The secret to achieving sexual gratification through paper -- as with a lover -- is to handle it slowly, building the tension and then pressing down firmly to take control."
Origasmi is becoming so popular with young Japanese women that government officials are worried about a population fall-off.
"Young Japanese women arebored with Japanese guys who spend all their time working, playing video games or entertaining clients in karaoke bars," said a member of Japan's Ministry of Social Trends, who insisted upon anonymity.
"Now they're taking matters into their own hands."
As can be expected, many Japanese men are quite upset by the fad. "My girlfriend replaced me with rice paper," said Toby Akiro. "I've lost all respect among my friends and colleagues. Except for Akira, whose wife left him for a piece of corrugated cardboard. He said she liked it rough. He understands."
According to Yong, Origasmi began centuries ago, when Japan was ruled by warlords.
"While the men were away fighting, the rulers gave the women paper so that they could write to the soldiers and improve their morale," she said.
"But not all women knew how to write, and as they folded the paper to make tokens for their men they found the experience stimulating."
The paper industry is understandably ecstatic about Origasmi.
"With the growth of e-mail and the Internet, paper use has been way down," said Barry Cobbs, a paper magnate. "This has made paper sexy again -- in a whole new way."
As Yong put it, "Origasmi would definitely be something to write home about -- if I wasn't so busy using the paper for another purpose."
By SCOTT STEVENS
TOKYO -- "Now you fold the paper this way, and then you fold it over like this -- and then, if you've done it right, you will barely be able to concentrate!"
So exclaimed Miraka Yong, demonstrating the ancient art form she made famous in her Japanese best-seller, Origasmi -- The Sensual Art of Folding Paper.
"Paper is like a lover, very soft, very sensual," Yong says. "Yet it has a cutting edge if you mishandle it.
The secret to achieving sexual gratification through paper -- as with a lover -- is to handle it slowly, building the tension and then pressing down firmly to take control."
Origasmi is becoming so popular with young Japanese women that government officials are worried about a population fall-off.
"Young Japanese women arebored with Japanese guys who spend all their time working, playing video games or entertaining clients in karaoke bars," said a member of Japan's Ministry of Social Trends, who insisted upon anonymity.
"Now they're taking matters into their own hands."
As can be expected, many Japanese men are quite upset by the fad. "My girlfriend replaced me with rice paper," said Toby Akiro. "I've lost all respect among my friends and colleagues. Except for Akira, whose wife left him for a piece of corrugated cardboard. He said she liked it rough. He understands."
According to Yong, Origasmi began centuries ago, when Japan was ruled by warlords.
"While the men were away fighting, the rulers gave the women paper so that they could write to the soldiers and improve their morale," she said.
"But not all women knew how to write, and as they folded the paper to make tokens for their men they found the experience stimulating."
The paper industry is understandably ecstatic about Origasmi.
"With the growth of e-mail and the Internet, paper use has been way down," said Barry Cobbs, a paper magnate. "This has made paper sexy again -- in a whole new way."
As Yong put it, "Origasmi would definitely be something to write home about -- if I wasn't so busy using the paper for another purpose."
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