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experiences and mine, a quick brainstorming session usually yielded a few good options to check out. And having the benefit of the creative shorthand gained by having a crew that has been with me for many years and has successfully crafted all manner of WAY out of the box locales, we were off to the races. Throughout the seven seasons, the Art Department has had the opportunity to bring to life hundreds of environments such as rural Afghan villages, underground Syrian water passageways, a North Korean labor camp, an abandoned Jordanian hotel, submarines and aircraft carrier and mountain- top American military outposts. And all of these were without leaving Southern California! We were very fortunate to have places like Blue Cloud Movie Ranch with its standing Middle East town and fairly complete US military FOB—forward operating base—at our disposal. This gave us a great head start from which we could create many different unique environments and…also land helicopter…and in SEAL Team fashion, blow things up! Creating fully dressed town squares with their own unique marketplaces became an almost episodic occurrence. Often our stories had the SEAL team either staking out or rescuing someone from an apartment above one of these crowded urban environments, inside a destroyed mosque or in some building that happened to be square adjacent. Sandy Struth, the fantastic set decorator, and her amazing crew were constantly loading or unloading truckloads of wildly unique vendor carts with, well, whatever you can imagine. Lanterns of H. INTERIOR SYRIAN SAFE HOUSE SET - STAGE 21 CBS RADFORD EXTERIOR SHOT IN JORDAN. SET PHOTO. I. & J. ABANDONED JORDANIAN HOTEL - STAGE 21 CBS RADFORD. SANDY STRUTH AND HER TEAM PULLED OUT ALL THE STOPS. "TILE" WORK WAS ACTUALLY GRAPHIC FILES CREATED BY JESSICA QUATTRINI AND PRINTED ON ADHESIVE VINYL. SET PHOTOS. F H G I J