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Ammunition, but real actors. >> you can't simulate behavior. you have to use people to i am slate behavior. >> reporter: agents a year come to the site complete with mock airplanes, bars and a test track. no embankments, no bridges, no congestion. terror attacks from the past like a sarin gas subway attacks are rehearsed along with future attacks like improvised explosive devices. response training to abductions or active shooters is only part of the mission. >> we can't afford to just respond to incidents. we have to prevent thing from happening. we get a sense from talking to

Brunswick, georgia, they use blank ammunition but real acto actors. >> we can't simulate behavior, have you to use people to simulate behavior. >> reporter: 60,000 federal agents a year come to the 1600-acre site complete with mock airplanes, bars and a test track. the important thing if performing a pit ma few sre a pit maneuver is location. terror events from the past like a saran gas subway attack are rehearsayed besides potential future attacks like improvised explosive devices. >> we are prepared domestically for any type of treat and we will be able too defeat that threat should it occur...

Improvised explosive devices. >> we want to prepare domestically for any type of threat, and we want to be able to defeat that threat should it occur here in the united states. >> we need backup. >> reporter: response training, though, to abductions or active shooters is only part of the mission. >> we can't afford to just respond to incidents anymore. we have to prevent things from happening. >> reporter: now, director, after last week's shootings, a lot of people are on edge under the -- around the country. how that is that affected to what you are doing here? >> it reinforces why training i...

Do in this case. in terms of security, they said the rapid response training that they had after the hasan attack helped them in this case. he was put down very quickly. only after a few minutes police were able to find where this man was and he ended his own life when confronted by military police. >> let me bring in nbc news be pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski. jim, talk about what changes were made at fort hood and other bases after this. i was under the impression that the change of having to register the weapon came after the nidal hasan shooting. what were the changes, then, if an...