That place has been used for “tank training” since the early 1930’s ...
Train too long in only a few spots, you end up endlessly repeating “lessons learned” from “official” manuals written FOR just those few spots. Get out in the real world, and your first few months are spent unlearning the last war’s endlessly repeated “lessons learned”
This was the first multinational tank challenge that took place here since 1991A competition course gets bulldozed, reshaped and setup for particular testing of skills.