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Embassy Drills

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Photograph: Eric Adams
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    Part of the simulated city at the State Department training center in Virginia. The building in the rear behind the retaining wall is a simulated US embassy.
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    Photograph: Eric Adams
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    Officials in Dakar, Senegal, debrief following a simulated assault on the US embassy there during a training exercise in 2018. 
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    Senegalese security personnel on the grounds of the US embassy in Dakar during the training exercise. 
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    Role playing actors simulate a protest at the US embassy in Dakar in 2018. 
  • a protestor and purple smoke rising from behind two pillars
    Photograph: Eric Adams
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    A colored smoke grenade simulates a tire fire during training exercise at the US embassy in Dakar, Senegal, in 2018.
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    Photograph: Eric Adams
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    Security personnel watching role playing actors who've accessed the embassy compound during the training exercise.
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