Sprawling Drug-War Training Complex Planned for U.S-Mexico Border
Posted by Bill Conroy - October 24, 2010 at 1:09 am
Massive Facility Would Serve Law Enforcers, Military and Their Drones
A company fronted by a former Navy SEAL is only a few weeks away from potentially gaining approval to develop a nearly 1,000-acre military and law enforcement training camp near the U.S. border in Southern California, less than a 20-minute drone flight from the sister border cities of San Diego and Tijuana.
The camp, which would be developed in three phases at a cost of up to $100 million (some $15 million for Phase 1), is being billed by its developer as a privately operated, state-of-the-art training center that would employ up to 200 people and serve as economic boon to the small California border town of Ocotillo, located in Imperial County.
But there appears to be a deeper agenda in play with this project that has far more to do with profiting off the drug war — and assuring its escalation along the border — than it does with benefiting the community of Ocotillo.
The camp, proposed by a San Diego-based company called Wind Zero Group Inc., would be located on a 944-acre patch of high-desert land (which happens to be in a flood and earthquake zone) just south of a major Interstate Highway (8) and less than a dozen miles north of the Mexican border.
The facility would include numerous shooting ranges allowing for some 57,000 rounds of ammunition to be fired off daily; a mock-up of an urban neighborhood for practices assaults; a 6-mile dual-use race track for teaching defensive and offensive driving (and for private-pay recreational use); enough housing and RV camper space (along with a 100-room hotel) to accommodate a small battalion of warriors; a 50-foot high, 28,000-square-foot “administrative” building; an 80-foot high observation and control tower; at least two heliports and a 4,000-foot airstrip.
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I understand that crack recruits have already been training with the EM-50 Urban Assault Vehicle...
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