"All the training we've done up to now has led us to this," the young soldier said. "I'm ready to go."

"I saw these in other places, and I thought we ought to have them here," said Brigadier Gen. Terry "Max" Haston, the Tennessee Guard's assistant adjutant general. "We need to put our soldiers into this environment here so that when they face these things (during deployment), it's not the first time."