Soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 318th Regiment support the 78th Training Division during Guardian Response 21 in Muscatatuck Urban Training Center, Indiana. Some soldiers were assigned to the Effects and Enablers team, where they prepped mannequins with realistic injuries and then staged them at various locations for the search and rescue teams to find. (Video by U.S. Army SPC Yon Trimble)
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As of around 1998, the majority of politically significant urban areas upwards of 75 percent outside allied and ex-Warsaw Pact states are within 150 miles of a coastline; 60 percent are within 12 miles. Given the Marine Corps’ role as an expeditionary, and amphibious, force in readiness, it is clear that many future urban battlefields will be within its domain, whether it be for peacekeeping, humanitarian support, or outright combat. While the Corps does have an urban warfighing doctrinal guide (the aging MCWP 3-35.3: Military Operations in Urban Terrain [MOUT]), a few urban warfare training centers, and ongoing research (Project Metropolis II), the current focus of Corps’ leaders is a shift back toward the service’s amphibious roots. This shift likely is largely to counter China’s growing aggression in the Pacific region, in which there is highly urbanized terrain. Thus, it is necessary for the Marine Corps to simultaneously prepare for future urban operations while also ret
Muscatatuck facility celebrating 100 years
Staff Reports
A Muscatatuck facility in Butlerville turned 100 years old Dec. 15.
Although the first patients (or as they were called at the time, inmates) arrived at what was then called the Indiana Farm Colony for the Feeble-Minded on March 30, 1920, Indiana Gov. James P. Goodrich did not declare the facility open for business until Dec. 15, 1920.
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The Aitkenhead Colony building, built in 1920, was the first patient housing building constructed on the site of the Indiana Farm Colony for the Feeble-Minded, named after William Aitkenhead, first treasurer of the board of trustees. Courtesy of Muscatatuck Museum