Summary
It was dark, and Nicholas Grider and his unit had spent nearly 10 hours looking for roadside bombs, when the gunfire broke out.
"Everyone stopped and all the guns faced (in that direction)," said Grider, 32. "Shells started dropping into my lap."See the full content of this document
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Fake Iraq: War As Art
But they were empty shells.
Because Grider isn't a soldier; he's an artist. And he wasn't in a war zone; he was acting as a journalist in a training drill at Fort Irwin's National Training Center in the Mojave Desert.Dubbed "Fake Iraq," the NTC was modeled to look and feel like a war-t...See the full content of this document
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