Video: Watch: Inside the fake city where US trains its recruits following Benghazi tragedy The new course for staff entering "high-threat" embassies runs for ten weeks - instead of the previous five - and takes place in a $79million mock town in Virginia. Inside the new city called Erehwon - "nowhere" spelt backwards Lance Bailey, a special agent in the Diplomatic Security Services, told AP: "Post-Benghazi there was a recognition within the department and the government that it was important to focus particular attention on some of the highest-threat posts around the world." ""That was a hard lesson, obviously, those are hard lessons that we've learned."