MOUT Photo Gallery

The Media on the Battlefield crew, which is known to exerciseparticipants as World News Network, conducts a mock interview with anArmy commander. Photo by Raymond Barnard, U.S. Army, Fort Polk.

After the Media on the Battlefield crew conducts each interview, itprovides immediate feedback to the interviewees. The purpose of themock interviews is to make soldiers more comfortable dealing with thepress.

Using a JVC KY-29 S-VHS camera, a video team captures a war-gameexercise at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk. La. Photoby Raymond Barnard, U.S. Army, Fort Polk.

Inside the MOUT command center, operators monitor up to 16 videosignals each at four separate workstations during the trainingexercises.

As a military unit prepares to enter and clear a building inShughart-Gordon, the MOUT facility's 29-building mock city, all of theaction is captured with either a Sony DC-30 or DC-50 analog cameraaffixed with a Pelco zoom lenses and mounted to a telephone pole.

A military unit participates in a training exercises within the MOUTcomplex. Video cameras provide 100% coverage of all indoor activitywithin the complex.

As operators monitor every movement during a training exercise,specialized touch-screen software allows them to highlight specificvideo clips, which they can mark with in and out points by touching thescreen of their computer monitors.

Agema thermal imaging cameras are used to monitor outdoor exercisesafter sunset. Below the monitors on the wall is a model ofShughart-Gordon

More than 800 Ikegami ICD-47 monochrome cameras provide 100%coverage of all training exercises within Shughart-Gordon's 29buildings. Traditionally, infrared lights have been used to illuminatethe interior shots. However, the lights are being phased out in favorof class 4 lasers, which are less visible to the troops' night-visiongoggles.