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School Program Objectives and Highlights

OBJECTIVES:
  1. To honor the memory of those men and women who fought and died in the wars of this century.
  2. To build in students a respect and understanding of the vehicles which have carried our soldiers to war.
  3. To show the evolution of military life from World War II to the present.
  4. To develop a responsibility in future generations to remember past wars and thereby avoid future ones.


TOUR HIGHLIGHTS:

See the tents soldiers lived in, their helmets, field pack, the food they ate, the uniforms they wore and even the way they took showers in the field.

See firing demonstrations of a machine gun simulator, as used in movie special effects.

See the rifles, grenades, mortars, etc. (Most all are highly realistic, non-firing movie props).

Ride in a military Jeep, and a "deuce-and-a-half" (2 1/2 ton army truck).

See a demonstrator of the FAV (fast assault vehicle) a special mission vehicle, one of which was the first allied vehicle into Kuwait City during the Gulf War.

Visit the restoration shops of TOYLAND COMBAT VEHICLES where antique military vehicles are restored.