I was at Hradiste last May...great training area. Deepest mud I've ever seen/taken a tank through. Best part was forcing the soldiers to actually land navigate, and the trails had only had light vehicles run over them for years before we arrived (BMP's mostly), so our guys were busting some trail. Lots of space and few of the goofy rules you see at Graf and Hoehnfels (but the Czechs were still very interested in collecting those maneuver damage checks!)
Oh, and the fact that Karlovy Vary was just up the road wasn't too bad either ;)
That they were able to mass the entire battalion fires says something critical about this new training area. Basically, it says they should keep it. There are few places you can train like that.
The handwriting is on the wall for Germany.
They should change the entire maneuver damage mindset in Czech and other new locations. Any damage anywhere within the boundaries of an entire training area should be cost free and a matter of business. Any damage outside that area should be replacement cost only.
If the host nation's law allows lawsuits to recover the years of eggs that chicken would have laid and 3 generations thereafter, then that should be a cost that the host agrees to accept as a peculiarity of their own law.
We need to negotiate this now while the host countries clamor for the US presence.