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Navy SEALs - BUD/S Training
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BUD/S Training is a 24 week training/challenge that occurs at the Naval Special Warfare Center in Coronado, CA. There is three weeks of orientation, Phase 1- seven weeks of physical conditioning, Phase 2 - seven weeks of combat diving and Phase 3 - seven weeks of land warfare. Most of the volunteers who drop out, do so during phase 1.

USN SERE School
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By: skyeye.
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The US Navy's only cold weather Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) school is taught on 12,000 acres near Rangeley in northwestern Maine. Since 1962 almost 50,000 air crewmen and other personnel have completed SERE and Cold Weather Environmental Survival Training (CWEST).

Dwyer Hill Training Centre, Joint Task Force 2
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By: Skaf.
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A brief search on "JTF2" will provide lots of info on this elite Canadian special forces unit.

FBI Academy
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By: kjfitz.
The FBI Academy, located in Quantico, Virginia, is the training grounds for new Special Agents of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation. It was first opened for use in 1972 on 385 acres (1.6 km²) of woodland. It is a relatively small government academy, housing only three dormitory buildings, along with associated facilities. It accommodates numerous trainees for 21-week courses throughout the year.
The main training complex has three dormitory buildings, a dining hall, library, a classroom building, a Forensic Science Research and Training Center, a 1,000-seat Auditorium, a chapel, administrative offices, a large gymnasium and outside track, along with a fully equipped garage. In addition to the main complex, there is a mock city known as Hogan's Alley, which consists of facades replicating a typical small town. The Hogan's Alley facades are primarily used for FBI and DEA New Agent Training, while behind the facades are fully functioning classrooms, audiovisual facilities, storage areas, and administrative and maintenance offices. Just beyond Hogans Alley is a 1.1 mile pursuit/defensive driving training track. The extensive firearms training provided to all FBI/DEA and other law enforcement officers is conducted at the indoor firing range, the eight outdoor firing ranges, four skeet ranges, or the 200-yard rifle range.
The units that reside here are the Field and Police Training Unit, Firearms Training Unit, Forensic Science Research and Training Center, Technology Services Unit (TSU), Investigative Training Unit, Law Enforcement Communication Unit, Leadership and Management Science Unit's (LSMU), Physical Training Unit, New Agents' Training Unit (NATU), Practical Applications Unit (PAU), and the Investigative Computer Training Unit (ICTU).[1] Most of these are training units for developing new field agents, but they are also used to help get other agents up to date on new techniques.

Rodriguez Range - MLFC
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By: KRL.
This Multi Purpose Live Fire Complex (MLFC) is also known as the Rodriquez Range.
Attached links with photos.

Osama bin Laden Raid Compound Mock-up
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By: skyeye.
The Harvey Point Defense Testing (CIA training facility) appears to be the site of the mock up training facility for the Bin Laden raid. It is not completed in the photo, but there is enough built to say it is an almost exact copy of Bin Laden's.

West Tofts Camp
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By: skyeye.
MoD West Tofts, Defence Training Estate East
Stanford Training Area (STANTA), is a British Army training area situated in the English county of Norfolk. The area is approximately 30,000 acres (120 km2) in size.

Metropolitan Police Specialist Training Centre (MPSTC)
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By: giove.
Metropolitan Police Specialist Training Centre (MPSTC) is located in Gravesend.
The £55m MPSTC was built by Equion (part of the John Laing group) in a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) deal. It was officially opened in April 2003 and provides the capital's officers with firearms and public order training by tutors from The Met's CO12 branch.
Brave students in riot gear are taught how to deal with petrol bombs being thrown at them. Weapons training is provided on indoor laser ranges and outdoors on the Army's old Milton Range further east. The MPSTC includes a mock-up of a mini town including a bank, shops, night club and even a football stadium. Also featured are train and underground stations with full size carriages and a section from a passenger jet – utilised to great effect by specialist firearms officers from Scotland Yard's elite CO19 (formerly SO19) branch.
In early 2009, the Gravesend facility played a crucial role in the Met's training to deal with the possibility of rioting protestors at the G20 Summit of world political leaders, as part of the massive police and counter-terrorism security plan codenamed Operation Glencoe.

Fort Jackson, SC Basic Training Graduation
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By: travelguy.
This is the parade grounds at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. As you can see, there is a graduation ceremony taking place for one of the Basic Training classes. The cluster of dots at the bottom left of the parade field is the soldiers that appear to have just finished their graduation. Check out the rest of the fort to find the firing ranges and soldier's barracks.

Muscatatuck Urban Training Center (MUTC)
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By: kjfitz.
Located in South Central Indiana’s Jennings County near Butlerville, the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center (MUTC) is a secluded, self contained community, once home to the Muscatatuck State Developmental Center. The 1,000 acre site was turned over to the Indiana National Guard in July of 2005 and since has been continually evolving into a full-immersion contemporary urban training environment.
Those utilizing MUTC have access to a 180 acre reservoir and urban infrastructure consisting of 68 major buildings including a school, hospital, dormitories, light industrial structures, single family type dwellings, a dining facility and administrative buildings totaling approximately 850,000 square feet of floor space. Additionally the training area includes an extensive underground utility tunnel system and over 9 miles of roads and streets.
MUTC is a consortium of governmental, public and private entities that are pooling their unique capabilities in order to provide the most realistic training experience possible. Training that can be tailored to replicate both foreign and domestic scenarios and that can be utilized by various civilian and military organizations.
In its first year of operation the facilities at MUTC have been utilized by over 16,000 people from military, government and private agencies and is continually expanding training capabilities for future needs.

SEAL Team 6 training facility
giove (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: giove.
Some training structure near the Dam Neck base, home of DEVGRU - SEAL team 6

Pinecastle Bombing Range in Ocala National Forest
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Hogan's Alley - FBI Urban Training Facility
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By: kjfitz.
Hogan's Alley is a tactical training facility of more than 10 acres (40,000 m²) operated by the FBI Training Academy. Hogan's Alley was opened in 1987, and was designed to provide a realistic urban setting for training agents of the FBI, DEA, and other local, state, federal and international law enforcement agents. The term "Hogan's Alley" is also used generically to refer to any shooting range devoted to tactical training.
Hogan's Alley consists of a street with a bank, a post office, a hotel ("The Dogwood Inn"), a laundromat, a barber shop, a pool hall, homes, shops, and more, many of which are named after events in the FBI's past. The town is populated by actors who role play parts appropriate to the training that is in progress; most play innocent bystanders, but some play terrorists, bank robbers, drug dealers, or other criminal roles. One of the buildings really houses a classroom for training agents on site, another houses a working FBI office used in some simulated scenarios.
Hogan's Alley is used to teach agents investigative techniques, firearms skills, and defensive tactics. Scenarios involve investigations of terrorist activities, planning and making arrests, processing evidence at crime scenes, conducting interviews and searches, using ballistic shields as protection, and clearing areas and buildings so they're safe to enter. Simulated munitions, which are essentially realistic paintball guns, are used in simulated gun fights with the criminal role players.

Marine Corps Expeditionary Warfare Training Group Atlantic
Expeditionary Warfare Training Group Atlantic - Amphibious Reconnaissance Section.
The mission of Expeditionary Warfare Training Group Atlantic is to provide instruction and training for personnel and units of the US Atlantic Fleet, reserve components, and allied military personnel in order to achieve and maintain an optimum state of readiness for amphibious operations; to provide training in shipboard engineering, naval gunfire support, naval science, and seamanship, conduct training for the total force in the doctrine, tactics and techniques of amphibious, Maritime Prepositioned Forces (MPF), and waterborne operations, with emphasis on landing forces matters for the Atlantic Fleet.

KASOTC Special operation training center
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By: giove.
Special operations units are the “tip of the spear” and the King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Center (KASOTC) is the sharpening-tool that hones the spear. KASOTC is located in Amman, Jordan and is a one-of-a-kind facility.
Its unique nature derives from an extraordinary combination of cutting-edge training, elite instructor and support staff, and integrated advanced technology.
The facility encompasses an elaborate urban area containing 56 live-fire and simulated-fire training structures – all outfitted with the latest instrumentation and simulated technologies, plus a fully-integrated Airbus, flat-ranges, a breaching complex, and a 5-story CQB live-fire shoot house.
Tying it all together is a fiber optic network and centralized Range Operations Control (ROC).
KASOTC is fully-quipped, staffed, and offers an ideal venue for special operations pre-deployment training, joint exercises, and other training initiatives.

Great Lakes Naval Training Center
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By: stewc625.
Basic training center for all Naval personnel entering the Navy. Center continues west from this view about 1.5 miles.

Leschi Town - Complete fake city used for urban military training
This is one of the most extensive US MOUT facilities I've seen. It has a hospital, school, residential neighborhood, farm, and shops. Unlike many other new MOUT facilities which seem to be built to simulate third world conditions and construction this one is very "small town america". Makes me think this may be for training special forces. Are there special forces at Fort Lewis?

Yodaville Urban Target Complex
It was designed as an urban close air support (CAS) target complex built to provide a realistic simulation of urban or built up areas for Marine aviation to train.
The UTC has 178 buildings, 131 personnel targets, 31 vehicle targets and is equipped with streetlights. There are four Tactical Air Control Party sites around the periphery/
The UTC has three instrumentation systems:
a. A Weapons Impact Scoring System (WISS) which optically measures miss distance of ordnance delivery relative to a specific aim-point.
b. A No Drop Bomb Scoring System (NDBS) which, when tied into the Tactical Aircrew Training System (TACTS), receives signals from a specifically equipped fixed wing aircraft indicating ordnance delivery, determines the impact point of simulated ordnance drop.
c. A Virtual Interactive Targets (VIT) which determines the collateral damage and fratricide effects of a specific ordnance delivery based on either manual input or automatic feed from WISS or TACTS data.

Pontrilas SAS Training Base
PATA is now used exclusively by the UK's Special Forces, the SAS. The mock-up of a plane is rumoured to be used for counter-terrorism training. [www.secret-bases.co.uk]

Firing Ranges at Ft. Jackson
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Bombing Target in Nevada
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By: nic.

POW camp used for Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape [SERE] training
Found by MJones47.
Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape [SERE] training is conducted at the US Navy's Remote Training Site in Warner Springs, CA. West Coast Navy/Marine Corps personnel who risk capture during wartime (e.g. aviators) undergo SERE training at the Remote Naval Training Facility in Warner Springs, CA.
The students gain the knowledge and confidence necessary to survive in a hostile environment until rescued. SERE instructions covers dealing with fatigue, fear, hunger, thirst, temperature, pain and boredom. The students are divided into elements, and spend days practicing map reading, navigation, fire building, water procurement and shelter building.
The students learn about survival techniques in an outdoor, hands-on environment. They learned different water procurement and purification techniques, constructed solar stills, and setup transpiration bags for water collection. They identified and ate edible plants. They also learned how to trap small game and field dress a rabbit for cooking and eating. They construct shelters with parachute material and camp out overnight in them. Students learn how to start fires using a variety of fire starting tools and techniques, and practice ground to air signalling using ground panels and Navy smoke flares.

Warren Grove Bombing Range
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By: RCH.
Warren Grove Bombing Range is used by Air National Guard. Located in NJ pine Barrens. F16 strafed local school in 2004 while targeting Warren Grove.

BUD/s Playground
Basic Underwater Demolitions/SEAL (BUD/S)
Upon arrival at Naval Special Warfare Command, check-ins for BUD/S are immediately placed into a pre-indoctrination phase of training known as 'PTRR', or Physical Training Rehabilitation and Remediation. PTRR is also where all of the 'roll-backs' are placed while waiting to be put into a class. Once additional medical screening is given, and after enough BUD/S candidates arrive for the same class, organized physical training begins.
BUD/S Instructor talking to trainees.
BUD/S consists of a three-week 'Indoctrination Course', known as INDOC, followed by three phases, covering physical conditioning (seven weeks), diving (eight weeks), and land warfare (nine weeks) respectively. Officer and enlisted personnel go through the same training program. It is designed to develop and test their stamina, leadership, and ability to work as a team.

Fake town on Camp Lejeune
Military Operation Urban Terrain (MOUT) facility. MOUT is a replica of a small city where Marines train for urban warfare situations.
Great pictures here.

Ethan Allen Firing Range
The Ethan Allen Firing Range is a government facility operated by General Dynamics Armament Systems. Its 3,292 acres are home to the US Army Mountain Warfare School (https://www.benning.army.mil/AMWS/), weapons testing, and artillery practice. The site is used by civilian organizations for marksmanship and for biathlon training and competition.

Camp Rudder Ranger Training
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By: acj15.
Camp Rudder is the final stage of the nine-week course that starts at Fort Benning, Ga., and continues in the mountains of northern Georgia. After parachuting into Camp Rudder, the students spend 18 days learning jungle tactics, including stream crossings. The Ranger course is designed to further develop military leaders who are physically and mentally tough and self-disciplined. It challenges them to think, act and react effectively in stress approaching that found in combat.

Aksai Chin Terrain Scale Model
mlc1us (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mlc1us.
A 1:500 scale terrain model of eastern Aksai Chin and adjacent Tibet, built near the town of Huangyangtan, about 35 kilometres South West of Yinchuan, the capital of the autonomous region of Ningxia in China. A visual side-by-side comparison shows a very detailed duplication of Aksai Chin in the camp. The 900m × 700m model was surrounded by substantial facility, with rows of red-roofed buildings, scores of olive-colored trucks and a large compound with elevated lookout posts and a large communications tower. Such terrain models are known to be used in military training and simulation (although usually on a much smaller scale)...Wikipedia
A Google Earth overlay which places the terrain model over the actual terrain is available at the GE Community Forum -

United States Military Academy - West Point
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By: charlene.

Victory Tower at Ft. Jackson
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By: twpyhr.
Victory Tower at Fort Jackson

Camp Lejeune Ranges Impact Area
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By: deverettreed.
Impact Area for a multitude of rifle, machinegun, mortar ranges. Zoom out for the whole picture.

Blackwater Security Training Center
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By: Gosell.
Blackwater is a controversial private military contractor that has been providing security for American diplomats and others in Iraq

AUTEC-Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center
The U.S. Navy's Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) is an instrumented laboratory that performs integrated three-dimensional hydrospace/aerospace trajectory measurements covering the entire spectrum of undersea simulated warfare: calibration, classifications, detection, and destruction. Its vital mission is to assist in establishing and maintaining naval supremacy of the United States through testing, evaluation, and underwater research.

Fake town (Shughart-Gordon) Urban Warfare Training facility
This complex is an 8km x 7km box within JRTC’s maneuver area and contains multiple mock villages and tactical objective sites. The prime urban site is a twenty-nine building enclave (Shughart-Gordon) that replicates a third world town. There is also an eight building airfield (Self Airfield) and a five building mock military installation (Word Military Compound).

Ministry of Defense Hythe Firing Range
An area of low lying, slightly undulating land adjoining the foreshore. Hythe Ranges is one of the oldest Ranges in the country and has been used for live firing for nearly 200 years. The whole area is steeped in military history. On Hythe Ranges itself, there are 3 Scheduled Ancient Monuments.

Former Barrett Class Transport USNS Upshur (T-AP-198) / Training Ship State of Maine
Now used as a US Navy fire research ship.

SEAL diver training tower

Shooting range
Is this a shooting range? At Fleet Combat Training center Atlantic.

Train in SAS training facility
Pontrilas Army Training Area
The area, north of the village of Pontrilas in Herefordshire, close to the Welsh border, seems to be a former munitions depot, judging by the (dismantled) train line system, just west of the training area's main gate, near the village of Ewyas Harold.
The old disused munitions train line system once connected into the nearby main line at a branch junction in the village of Pontrilas itself, a little further south.
The plane is rumoured to be used for counter-terrorism training. Rather than a real jet, it seems likely that the aircraft is in fact merely a "mock-up", similar to those used on film productions.

Marine Corp Recruit Depot
deverettreed (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: deverettreed.
MCRD San Diego - Marine Corps west coast boot camp.

Combat Town in Camp Lejeune
deverettreed (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: deverettreed.
A town used for urban assault training out it the boondocks of Camp Lejeune NC

Training with a Minuteman III missile transporter / erector
This pad and silo is used for training crews to erect, insert, and remove Minuteman III missiles from their silos. Training is in progress. The long white box contains a missile and is tilted into a vertical position. The silo is exactly under the south end of the box.

Quantico MOUT site
Urban warfare is a modern warfare conducted in urban areas such as towns and cities. As a distinction, warfare conducted in population centers before the 20th century is generally considered siege warfare.
Urban combat is very different from combat in the open at both the operational and tactical level. Complicating factors in urban warfare are the presence of civilians and buildings of all sorts. Some civilians may be difficult to disinguish from combatants such as armed militias and gangs, particularly if individuals are trying to protect their homes. Tactics are complicated by a three-dimensional environment, limited fields of view and fire because of buildings, enhanced concealment and cover for defenders, below ground infrastructure, and the ease of placement of booby traps and snipers.
The United States military term for urban warfare is MOUT, an abbreviation for Military Operations in Urban Terrain. The British military term is FIBUA (Fighting in Built-Up Areas), although it has been called OBUA (Operations in Built-Up Areas) and, unofficially, FISH and CHIPS (Fighting in Someone's House and Causing Havoc in People's Streets).[1] The term FOFO (Fighting in Fortified Objectives) refers to clearing enemy personnel from narrow and entrenched places like bunkers, trenches and strongholds; the dismantling of mines and wires; and the securing of footholds in enemy areas.

Fake town - FIBUA Sennybridge
FIBUA - Fighting in Built Up Areas
Army Training Area (ATE) north of Sennybridge.
In Sennybridge, in traditional SAS country, special training in CQB – Close Quarters Battle – takes place.

Military Police Village (Stem Village)
At Fort Leonard Wood
The Military Police Village is a state-of-the-art facility designed to give military policemen the best training possible. There are mock houses, stores, theatres and credit unions built in the village to give the trainees the most realistic training available. These are the premier law enforcement training facilities in the U.S. and include the MP Village, Tactical Clearing Center, Special Reaction Team Complex and two driving courses.

Avon Park Bombing Range
Also a bombed out runway to the NE, probably part of the former Avon Park Air Force Base.

Soldier hurling grenade
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By: Pdunn.

Fake town - Whinny Hill FIBUA village
FIBUA - Fighting In Built Up Area

Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
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By: Ars3nic.
One of three Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC), this one in Glynco, Georgia. There is another in Charleston, South Carolina, and a third in Artesia, New Mexico. The shooting ranges are slightly separated from the rest of the facility, a bit to the southwest.

Tarnak Farms - Former Al Qaeda training camp
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By: mlc1us.
Tarnak Farms refers to a former Al Qaeda training camp near Kandahar, Afghanistan.
The camp is very near the Kandahar airport.
The Al-Qaeda camp is alleged to have offered training constructing bombs, using poisons, urban warfare, andassassination. American counter-terrorism analysts assert that their sources claim all the camp's trainees had to attend Al Qaeda's Al Farouq camp first. American counter-terrorism analysts assert that their sources claim that all trainees have to be prepared to serve as suicide bombers.
After the United States forces took over the airport they used the ruins for their own training exercises.

Nevada Test Site Fortune Training Tower
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By: robsv.
The Fortune Training Tower is used to train personnel to prepare underground nuclear tests. It contains a vertical emplacement "rack" used to hold instrumentation and cabling.

Melrose Airforce Range
A bombing range. Note two things (1) The giant target at the top and the runway at the bottom. The runway has target planes and SAM batteries.

SEALs carrying their boats
tallturtle82 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: tallturtle82.
SEAL teams carrying their boats and headed for surf training. You can see an instructor on a dune waiting in the distance.
This was taken from Street View from May 2014.
Direct link below (goo.gl)

Larkhill Camp - Royal School of Artillery
The Royal School of Artillery (RSA) is part of the Artillery Centre and is an international centre of excellence for artillery training. It is situated in the centre of the British Army's largest national training area and offers unique access to live firing and manoeuvre facilities. The Staff of the School is made up of highly qualified instructors from the Royal Artillery, other Arms and Corps of the British Army and a number of overseas artillery instructors, for example Australian, Canadian and American. In addition to artillery training, the RSA train all Armoured Fighting Vehicle and Aircraft Recognition Instructors for the British Army.

Urban assault training facility at Camp Shelby
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Destroyed Tank
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US Air Force Academy
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By: nic.
The United States Air Force Academy (USAFA or Air Force), is an accredited college for the undergraduate education of commissioned officers for the United States Air Force. Its campus is located immediately north of Colorado Springs in El Paso County, Colorado, United States. The Academy's stated mission is "to educate, train, and inspire men and women to become officers of character, motivated to lead the United States Air Force in service to our nation." It is the youngest of the five United States service academies, having graduated its first class in 1959. Graduates of the Academy's four-year program receive a Bachelor of Science degree, and most are commissioned as second lieutenants in the United States Air Force. The Academy is also one of the largest tourist attractions in Colorado, attracting more than a million visitors each year.

Bangladesh Military Academy (BMA)
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RAF Nordhorn range
RAF Nordhorn is a bombing and gunnery range near Nordhorn, Lower Saxony, Germany, used by the Royal Air Force and other NATO air forces.
The first use for gunnery purposes was by the Wehrmacht in 1933, when the heaths to the east of the town of Nordhorn were used for artillery target practice. The RAF took over the range in 1945. During the Cold War, the daily flights over the town of Nordhorn were a constant reminder to the local townspeople of the ongoing struggle with the Soviets, despite the great distance to the border with Communist East Germany.
Despite the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the base remained as one of the few bases used by British forces in Germany. In 1995, as British forces were withdrawn from the rest of Germany, the Nordhorn aerodrome was expanded. However, in 1996, the Ministry of Defence decided to hand control of the base to the German government within a timeframe of six years. It was transferred back to the German Luftwaffe in March 2001. Despite being under German ownership, the RAF maintains a presence at the base.

Fake Town - Longmoor Camp UTC FIBOA
FIBUA - Fighting In Built Up Areas

US Naval Academy
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Firing Range - Fort Hood
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Blackdown Cadet Training Centre
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By: Binrat.
Central Ontario Cadet Training Center located at CFB Bordon

Torre Poglina - Italian secret service base
At Poglina Tower, was built around 1960 a secret military base that at the end of the'60s became known in relation to the "Piano Solo" in the'80s and returned to the honors of the chronicles for the case "Gladio ".
The land had been purchased by a company with limited liability coverage, whose members were representatives of high level SIFAR, the military secret service. The base, used as headquarters of the GAC, guastatori Training Center, and then considered the main basis of the structure addestrativa illegal operation Gladio.
On the occasion of the implementation of Plan Solo, a project with which you could assign the Arma dei Carabinieri state control, the base of Cape Marrangiu was supposed to accommodate 731 "enucleandi", (people in the world of politics and Syndicate dangerous and according to this program to be held at the base until emergence ceased). The list of enucleandi had been drafted on the basis of findings obtained by the so-called "dossiers SIFAR, analytical reports of a certain depth on public and private life of about 157,000 people, produced by SIFAR by order of General De Lorenzo, organizer of the Piano Solo . The base is still operating as the center of the training for army and secret service. There is also a little airstrip

Nevada Test Site
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Triangle

Hawk missile battery at Altcar Training Camp

Naval Training Facility
Looks like a training facility, perhaps Navy SEALS. Can anyone identify?

Airburst Target Range
The Airburst Range is located in the southwest corner of R-2601, on the Fort Carson Army Reservation. It is approximately 110 miles south of Buckley ANG and 25 miles west of the city of Pueblo, Colorado.
Manned Air To Ground Range. Airburst Range has 39 scoreable bomb targets and four (2) low angle strafe targets scored with a IRSSS system as described below and in Attachment 5.
Lots more targets to the NW including the popular "Star of David" SA-2 missile site.

Target Aircraft at Dummy Airfield
mlc1us (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mlc1us.
Part of RAF Spadeadam test range.

Airborne Jump Towers
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By: bisbohemian.
These 250' towers are the training towers for US Army Airborne Infantry at Ft. Benning.

Submarine Escape Training Tower (SETT - HMS Dolphin)
The Submarine Escape Training tank at Fort Blockhouse (formally HMS Dolphin) Gosport Hampshire, was constructed during the late 1940's, and ran its first training course in July 1954.
Since then improvements to techniques and equipment have led to deeper escapes being made from submarines. The current record stands at 600feet (180m) from a submarine. This was conducted to prove that escapes were possible down to the level of the continental shelf, where the majority of incidents would be likely to occur.
The need for escape training came about as staying put and waiting for a rescue vessel was not always possible due to the nature of the problem.
Horsea Island Dive Centre first started using the SETT in 2000, with the initial idea of giving the less experienced diver a controlled dive to nearly 30m, or to practice deeper rescue skills in a swimming pool environment. Although to date the majority of divers come here for a unique experience, with 30m and water temperature of 34 degrees and top to bottom visibility, there are not many locations in the U.K. to match it.

Camp Minden
Formerly the Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant, the Louisiana Army National Guard's Camp Minden now occupies the installation.

Soviet missile site (in Indiana)
This SAM site is a target on Jefferson Range.
Jefferson Range is located in the northern portions of Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge (BONWR), or former Jefferson Proving Grounds, in southeastern Indiana, just north of the Ohio River Community of Madison. The range is located on 1033 acres in the northern third of the old Jefferson Proving Grounds in Ripley County, Indiana. The main range buildings are located in the north-eastern corner of the complex.
The WISS is designed to provide support to the fleet in the training of pilot and aircrews at Tactical Training Ranges (TTRs) in the delivery of airborne ordnance. The WISS is an electro-optical instrumented system designed to accurately measure the impact location of air delivered ordnance (usually bombs, rockets, or mines) with respect to the target center. The targets vary from a latitude/longitude position on water to fixed bull’s-eye, buoys, barges, and moving land targets (MLTs).

Boardman bombing range

National Gendarmerie Intervention Group Training camp Satory
The National Gendarmerie Intervention Group, commonly abbreviated GIGN (French: Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale), is the French Gendarmerie's elite counter-terrorism and hostage rescue unit; it is part of the military force, not the police. It is composed of 380 men, including 11 commissioned officers.
Its missions include the arrest of armed criminals, in particular those taking hostages, counter-terrorism and dealing with airplane hijacking, and prevention of mutiny in prisons.
GIGN headquarters are in Satory, west of Paris. Along with the EPIGN and the GSPR it forms the GSIGN (Groupement de Sécurité et d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale, Grouping of Security and Intervention of the National Gendarmerie), part of the subdivision Mobile Gendarmerie.

Runway in the Middle of Nowhere
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Located in the Chocolate Mountains of southern California, specifically in the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range.
From the Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields website (www.airfields-freeman.com) -- "Not much is known about this airfield, including its name,purpose, or date of construction. No airfield at all was depicted at this location on USGS topo maps from 1969, 1980, or 1992. However, the 2002 USGS aerial photo depicted what appeared to be a single 2,400' northeast/southwest asphalt runway . . . this runway may have presumably been constructed as a target airfield, and never actually used as a real airfield. Or it may have been established as an “expeditionary” airfield for training use by AV-8 Harriers from MCAS Yuma."

Sudbury Training Annex
The Fort Devens Sudbury Training Annex, or "Ammunition Dump" as the Annex is locally known, is an inactive 2,450 acre site. The Annex was most recently used by Army reservists for troop field training during Desert Storm.
Established in the early 1940s as the Maynard Ammunition Depot, the installation became known as the Maynard Ordnance Test Station after World War II. In the mid-1950s, the facility became known as the U.S. Army Natick Research and Development Command and was used for troop training and disposal of certain wastes from Natick Laboratory.

Naval Reactor Training Site
The Windsor Site of the Knolls Atomic Power Lab trained over 14,000 Naval operators on the S1C Prototype Reactor at the Nuclear Propulsion Training Unit (NPTU).
Its operations contaminated soils, buildings and equipment surfaces with uranium and other radioactive materia. In 2006 full remediation of the site was completed.
The aerial views show the site after buildings and soil were removed.

USMC - Camp Lejeune Rifle Range
Marine Corps Rifle Range in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina

Target Range on Fort Dix
Jo_Boo (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Jo_Boo.
Firing range for large ordinance located on Fort Dix. More firing ranges are located just to the north.

HMP Kirkham (ex RAF Kirkham)
Hinkkanen (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Hinkkanen.
HMP Kirkham,m opened in 1962, is a category D training prison with accommodation for up to 628 adult male prisoners. The prison occupies the site of the former Royal Air Force Technical Training Establishment which was built in 1939 and was used post war as a major demobilisation centre and closed in 1957.

Pulau Tekong island
Hinkkanen (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Hinkkanen.
An island NE of Singapore main island, used as a training area for Singapore army. In Singaporean folklore, the island is deemed to be extremely haunted.

GSG-9 Headquarters
The GSG 9 der Bundespolizei (originally the German abbreviation of Grenzschutzgruppe 9 or Border Guard Group 9) is the elite counter-terrorism and special operations unit of the German Federal Police and is considered to be among the best of its kind in the world. Many nations have modelled their counter-terrorism units after the GSG 9.

SEAL selection and training
tallturtle82 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: tallturtle82.
SEALs going through selection/training at the Naval Special Warfare Center.
This was taken from Street View from May 2014.
Direct link below (goo.gl)

West Point Tunnel
Railroad tunnel passes under the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Copehill Down - Fake town for military urban trainig (MOUT) site
Copehill Down is a Ministry of Defence training facility located on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England. It is a 'FIBUA' (Fighting In Built Up Areas) training centre where exercises and tests are conducted.
Copehill Down, the major site for British Army FIBUA training.

GROM Headquarters
GROM (In Polish: Grupa Reagowania Operacyjno-Manewrowego "Operational Mobile Reaction Group"; the acronym itself means "thunderbolt") is the primary special forces unit of the Polish Land Forces. It was officially activated on July 8, 1990. It can be and is deployed in a variety of special operations and unconventional warfare roles, including anti-terrorist actions and projection of power behind enemy lines.
The unit's full name, in Polish, is Wojskowa Formacja Specjalna GROM im. Cichociemnych Spadochroniarzy Armii Krajowej (Special Military Formation GROM of the Cichociemni parachutists of Armia Krajowa), although this title is purely formal and is rarely used. The acronym GROM is also related to the name of General Gromosław Czempiński, who, among other actions, managed to rescue a number of American CIA agents and personnel from Iraq prior to the onset of Operation Desert Storm in 1991. In Polish Army nomenclature, it is called JW 2305 (JW stands for Jednostka Wojskowa—Military Unit).

SEAL Team VI Boat Ramp and Dock
SEAL Team VI, Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU), keeps its boats here.

US Merchant Marine Academy
caledon (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: caledon.

Tanks on Otterburn Army Training Estate (ATE)

24th Special Tactics Squadron Compound
The 24th Special Tactics Squadron is one of the four Special Tactics units of the United States Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC), and one of four highly secretive SMUs in the entire military, better known as a Tier-One unit.
A perimeter road outlines the training site. New construction is evident east and south of the present buildings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24th_Special_Tactics_Squadron

Joint Use Intelligence Analysis Facility (Under Construction)
The Joint Use Intelligence Analysis Facility is used by several intelligence agencies at Rivanna Station, part of Fort Belvoir

Camp Meigs
semore1898 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: semore1898.
Camp Meigs was the site of the training grounds for several colored regiments in the Massachusetts Infantry during the Civil War. Its best-known trainees were the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry - put to film in the movie, "Glory."
The land has since been developed, but the park in the center is named the "Camp Meigs Memorial Park" and includes a placard that says such. Many of the original natural features can be recognized.
*Note, the film was not filmed in this location*

Fake Iraqi town "Sasoville"
Range 210 MOUT Facility

Marine Corps Obstacle Course

Mock Village
This town, with neat row houses and churchyard, does not appear to be American or Middle Eastern. Looks like MOUT in the UK. Note the railroad cars to the west, sitting on - dirt.

Bomb crater off-center of aerial target
Pdunn (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Pdunn.

Pakistan Air Force Academy
The Pakistan Air Force Academy, located in the remote town Risalpur of Nowshera District in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, is the premier cadet training institution of the Pakistan Air Force. Its role is the training of General Duty Pilots (GDP), Aeronautical and Avionics Engineers and the initial training of other Ground Branch cadets. Cadets of all the branches join the Academy following a recommendation by the Inter Services Selection Board (ISSB) of Pakistan.
The Academy was created in 1910 and was a former base of the Royal Flying Corps. It officially became the airbase of the PAF on 15 August 1947. On January 21, 1967, it was again upgraded to the status of an academy by then-President Ayub Khan. Currently, it consists of 5 different components.

Fake town - Orange County Sherriff's Tactical Training Center
The Tactical Training Center, in the City of Orange, is one of the most realistic simulated police training villages in the state, and trains thousands of officers, agents, and private security company employees from the western United States. Like the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s tactical village at City Terrace, Orange County’s Tactical Training Center was built as a “laser village” in the 1980’s, when practice weapons emitted a laser light, and “victims” wore vests that electronically detected the approximate strike of the beam. Now small dye-filled simunitions are used.