“The State Department continues to look for opportunities to further reduce the overall cost of the project,”
Price to Avoid Another Benghazi? House Leaders Question $461 Million Training Center
With the deadly Benghazi attacks providing impetus and momentum, the State Department announced this spring that it would build a $461 million training center for diplomatic security personnel in rural Virginia.
The Foreign Affairs Security Training Center, years in the making, would consolidate similar training operations in one place.
To be built on 1,500 acres of public land that was home to the Fort Pickett Army National Guard in Blackstone, Va., the security training center will look and feel like a real U.S. embassy surrounded by urban-style streets, buildings, and facades, State Department officials announced in April.
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