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Military school provides press corps a bit _ or more _ of realism.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
QUANTICO, Va. _ Call it baptism by simulated fire.
After a week's crash course on things military, 58 journalists repeatedly hit the dirt as fake grenades and mortars exploded around them during a five-mile tactical road march, burdened by 25-pound backpacks.
"Gas! Gas! Gas!" officers screamed as flattened reporters yanked gas masks onto flushed faces within nine seconds as they had been instructed in one of numerous hands-on demonstrations.
Falling between trees, eyeglasses were dropped, elbows scraped. Branches drew blood across at least one TV news producer's neck.
Nov. 22 was the last day of an unprecedented training program that the Pentagon hopes would explain military ways to journalists who might end up covering a war with Iraq. Part of the intent was to make them less of a danger to themselves and to the military units they accompany. It also gave the public a rare window into how soldiers prepare for war.
But the make-believe action became all too real for some.
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