During FY2010 the Army National Guard must begin fielding the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle Virtual Trainers (MRAP-VVT) in order to train soldiers to operate this new family of Army vehicles that is being fielded and deployed in support of current operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. MRAP Vehicle Virtual Trainer fielding is the Army National Guard's #1 priority in support of current operation training procurement.

MRAP Vehicle Virtual Trainers allow soldiers who have limited or no opportunity to conduct training on the actual vehicles to learn to operate MRAP vehicles on "Virtual Battlefields" that are geo-specifically accurate for major areas of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Without funding for this program, Tennessee Guard soldiers will continue to have no trainers that allow them to learn to operate MRAP vehicles over the streets and terrain that they will encounter when deployed for operations. MRAP-VVTs allow combat training on virtual terrain that includes Baghdad, Tikrit, Samarra, Kabul and Kosovo.