They don’t have any deployment orders yet but the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson is still preparing for combat. The unit has just begun a month long training session at the Pinon Canyon Maneuver site in southeastern Colorado.

Friday 11 News got an up close look at the training. A group of about 150 soldiers were sent to secure a mock Iraqi town called Rubiya.

"It’s a mock up town made to replicate a town in Iraq," said Col. Butch Kievenaar.

As they moved into town they were greeted by the role-players, Arabic speakers who have been hired by the army to make the training environment as realistic as possible.

"Everyone the soldiers they encounter speak Iraqi,” said Kievenaar.

The soldiers will stay in Rubiya for 36 hours or at least until their mission is complete. Their first order of business is to meet with the mayor and the police chief.

"They've got to meet the people and find out their needs," Kievenaar said.

While the commander is inside the Iraqi police struggle to keep peace outside.

"Depending on what the unit does either good or bad things will happen," Kievenaar said.

In this exercise the bad happens, a sniper shoots the police chief and a suicide bomber blows up the mosque.

"There are multiple operations going on at one time," Kievenaar said.

Operations that these soldiers will encounter in the warzone, but when they get there it will all be for real.

The 2nd BCT, 4th ID will be at Pinon Canyon until February 22nd, they will then move back to Fort Carson to continue training.