very strange U.S. military training grounds where role-players simulate foreign battlegrounds in order to prepare our troops for their time in the field, Hailey Gates' "Atropia" is hardly the ...

FORT DRUM, N.Y. (Dec. 14, 2017) -- For years, Army units have fought for and liberated the fictitious country of Atropia ... as part of the Decisive Action Training Plan, this training scenario ...

“Atropia” follows the story of an aspiring actress who is working on a U.S. military training base simulating an Iraqi war zone. (“Atropia” is the name of a fake country reportedly ...

Atropia on Fort Irwin, Calif., May 21. The ambush was executed in order to provide visiting the Thailand Army Training Command Officials a chance to see the current battlefield training being ...

Set in 2006, Atropia takes place at the titular U.S. military training ground in the California desert, where actors role-play as villagers in countries where the government … News Today's news ...

Based on her 2020 short “Shako Mako,” Hailey Gates writes and directs “Atropia,” a unique war satire about western ... Chloë Sevigny). Tongue-in-cheek training videos help quickly establish a wry tone ...