ROYAL Marines commandos put a newly improved Second World War training camp through its paces on Monday.
Defence bosses spent £2.4million upgrading New Zealand Farm, near Tilshead on Salisbury Plain, into a modern, multi-purpose training camp that can replicate a variety of battlegrounds, including a terrorist camp.
Captain Freddy Sankey from Bravo Company, 40 Commando Royal Marines, said the facility with its hidden tunnels, gantries and arms caches was “brilliant” and offered a complex, realistic and physically challenging training environment.
The improvement work is the biggest single investment in a training camp on Salisbury Plain since the development of Copehill Down village in the late 1980s.
Major General Richard Stanford said: “Facilities such as this are critical to enabling success on operations.”
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