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Title: The Bob Edwards Show, Bertran Schultz and Jason Cooper, December 15, 2014

Author: Bob Edwards

Narrator: Bob Edwards

Format: Original Recording

Length: 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-15-14

Publisher: XM Satellite Radio

Genres: Radio & TV, Great Interviews

Publisher's Summary:

This week, we're replaying some of our favorite documentaries from the past decade. In the summer of 2012, we visited the military's billion-dollar National Training Center and met some of the people who prepared our troops for combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Covering more than a thousand square miles of California's Mojave Desert, Ft. Irwin and the NTC includes realistic mock villages populated by role playing Iraqi nationals and military spouses who are looking for a way to contribute to the war effort. We also witness a group of Army reservists training in a "trauma lane." Amid IED blasts and sniper fire, the untested medics have to deal with role players pretending to be the enemy, frightened villagers demanding their attention and actual amputees who act like they just lost their legs in the explosion. Their commander, Sergeant First Class Bertran Schultz, describes the action and gives a blow by blow account of what his men are getting right and wrong.

Then, for something completely different we head to Nashville to visit WSM's historic and unique broadcasting tower and a guided tour from chief engineer Jason Cooper. The station's studios were damaged in the 2010 flood and WSM was forced to broadcast from a cramped transmitter building at the tower for seven months. [Broadcast Date: December 15, 2014]