BUTLERVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Work continues on converting a former facility for the developmentally disabled in southern Indiana into an urban combat training site.

The government is also using the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center for civilian training, such as a two-week exercise involving 4,000 federal emergency response workers that concludes Nov. 14.

The military expects by 2014 to have spent $200 million on the former Muscatatuck State Developmental Center, with its heavily wooded 1,000 acres and dozens of buildings. Among the planned projects are construction of a fake oil field and a building resembling a mosque.

Indiana National Guard Brig. Gen. Clif Tooley says "We want to train like we want to fight."

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