Fort Irwin National Training Center

The National was founded on August 9, 1979 Training Center ( NTC) is the national practice and qualifying the center of the U.S. Army at Fort Irwin in the U.S. state of California. The high-tech device with an area of ​​2590 km ² is located on the site of a rough military training site in the Mojave Desert and is optimized in particular to the armored warfare. The training center is the primary training facility for the armored troops of the U.S. Army and the United States Army Forces Command subordinate to this. As enemy representation ( Opposing Force ), the 11th Armoured Cavalry Regiment serves.