Interestingly no mention of the giant green walls. Pretty sure those are there for shots that might catch the road leading out to empty space.
Fake town built exclusively for filming TV and movies
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is not only good for reducing infantry casualties but also reducing civilian casualties. Once the panic response sets in, it is likely that they will fire on anything without fully assessing. Training in similar environments can help soldiers avoid a panicked response and more logically assess the situation.
I've done combat training in one (a 3-story aluminum sided building furnished like a large office) and they had rigged the whole building with an interactive surround sound system. Once the course started and we got up to the building, I thought I heard music coming from inside. We opened the door and Metallica was blasting at 120db and none of us could hear each other. We had to communicate using signals while navig…
This is extremely unsafe and seems like grounds for a lawsuit, if it were reasonably possible to do this. For reference only 7.5 minutes per day at 120db will cause permanent hearing loss. Disgusting that they made you do this.
https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/19...
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#103Assembly Atlanta has 135 acres with indoor studios, plus outdoor streets to simulate New Orleans, New York, Tribeca, and "Europe". It's under construction, but close to completion.
Georgia has ranked #2 in US film production by some metrics, and it continues to steal hundreds of productions from California every year [1]. Last year Georgia was host to nearly 500 movies and TV shows [2], and has been extensively used for some of the biggest hits and blockbusters: Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Black Panther, Stranger Things, The Waking Dead, Ozark, Halt and C…
Georgia doesn't "steal" business from California. The vast majority of the production houses in those productions are California centered with California staff, and many of the actors fly out to Georgia to film their on set scenes.
It helps local business in Georgia during filming and gives local talent a chance, but the majority of the money still flows back to California. Same goes for Germany, Vancouver, Croatia and all the other places that offer subsidies for filming there. Movie productions are ephemeral and exist temporarily, it's not like having a major corporation headquartered in your town.
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#104Fun Fact: Tyler Perry of “Madea” fame built his own studio outside of Atlanta, initially to support his desire to make movies/shows that were harder to sell in Hollywood. It’s 200 acres of diverse sets and backlots including an 80% scaled White House.
Tyler Perry and his studio system are parodied relentlessly in an episode of the last season of Atlanta and in The Boondocks, these episodes assume one knows about Tyler Perry’s studio.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is not only good for reducing infantry casualties but also reducing civilian casualties. Once the panic response sets in, it is likely that they will fire on anything without fully assessing. Training in similar environments can help soldiers avoid a panicked response and more logically assess the situation.
this is so grotesque to read. Imagine a fake all-American town constructed in China, and someone commenting "This is not only good for reducing infantry casualties but also reducing civilian casualties."
I would imagine those do exist in China
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is not only good for reducing infantry casualties but also reducing civilian casualties. Once the panic response sets in, it is likely that they will fire on anything without fully assessing. Training in similar environments can help soldiers avoid a panicked response and more logically assess the situation.
this is so grotesque to read. Imagine a fake all-American town constructed in China, and someone commenting "This is not only good for reducing infantry casualties but also reducing civilian casualties."
The PRC did exactly that to train troops for Taiwan. There's a replica town, a replica of the presidential building, replica airbases, and even a weird pseudo-Eiffel tower [0].
[0] https://thediplomat.com/2015/08/satellite-imagery-from-china...
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#107The US military builds dummy towns for training purposes. This is called "MOUT" training, for Military Operations in Urban Terrain. The current ones look like towns in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, etc. The National Training Center at Fort Irwin, CA has the biggest one.[1] (There's a very good reason for that sort of thing. Most infantry casualties are among soldiers new to combat. Very realistic training means that most…
Then there's Hogan's Alley, the FBI training facility that is, in the current era, an elaborate fake town populated by actors and used to simulate a wide variety of scenarios from terrorism or hostage situations to processing evidence:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogan%27s_Alley_%28FBI%29
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've done combat training in one (a 3-story aluminum sided building furnished like a large office) and they had rigged the whole building with an interactive surround sound system. Once the course started and we got up to the building, I thought I heard music coming from inside. We opened the door and Metallica was blasting at 120db and none of us could hear each other. We had to communicate using signals while navig…
This is extremely unsafe and seems like grounds for a lawsuit, if it were reasonably possible to do this. For reference only 7.5 minutes per day at 120db will cause permanent hearing loss. Disgusting that they made you do this. https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/19...
I'll be honest, 120db was an exaggeration because it was VERY loud, I would not have had a way to measure it in combat gear. Additionally, earplugs are part of a military uniform at a lot of bases so you are required to carry them and the onus would be on you. At that point in time, I was not required to have hearing protection however.
You're not a civilian while enlisted, suing for any reason is not an option in most cases. It's more likely you would file to collect disability in the event of hearing damage after you get out.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've done combat training in one (a 3-story aluminum sided building furnished like a large office) and they had rigged the whole building with an interactive surround sound system. Once the course started and we got up to the building, I thought I heard music coming from inside. We opened the door and Metallica was blasting at 120db and none of us could hear each other. We had to communicate using signals while navig…
This is extremely unsafe and seems like grounds for a lawsuit, if it were reasonably possible to do this. For reference only 7.5 minutes per day at 120db will cause permanent hearing loss. Disgusting that they made you do this. https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/19...
I hear OSHA also frowns on being fired upon at work
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've done combat training in one (a 3-story aluminum sided building furnished like a large office) and they had rigged the whole building with an interactive surround sound system. Once the course started and we got up to the building, I thought I heard music coming from inside. We opened the door and Metallica was blasting at 120db and none of us could hear each other. We had to communicate using signals while navig…
This is extremely unsafe and seems like grounds for a lawsuit, if it were reasonably possible to do this. For reference only 7.5 minutes per day at 120db will cause permanent hearing loss. Disgusting that they made you do this. https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/19...
Is it not typical for the military to have hearing protection? My highschool gun club had earmuffs with active noise suppression that would dampen sound above a certain DB level.