Category Archives: .. Training Area

Can include other facilities like helipad

LTU | Rukla: Gaižiūnų poligonas

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https://www.openstreetbrowser.org/#map=11/55.0093/24.3927&categories=military
55.02306, 24.38451

Wikipedia LT: https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gai%C5%BEi%C5%ABn%C5%B3_poligonas
EN:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rukla  DE: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rukla

DE: https://www.bundeswehr.de/de/aktuelles/meldungen/bundeswehr-litauen-grosse-schritte-deutsche-kampfbrigade

PRI | Vieques Island Training Area

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https://www.openstreetbrowser.org/#map=11/18.1491/-65.3045&categories=military
 18.129612, -65.411158

Wikipedia EN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vieques,_Puerto_Rico

Environmental impact: Training area closed 2003 after heavy protests because of health exposure caused from a lot of chemicals.

JPN | Okinawa, Takae: Jungle Warfare Training Center

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https://www.openstreetbrowser.org/#map=11/26.7364/128.3976&categories=military
26.688973, 128.22916

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Wikipedia EN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Gonsalves

no BSR entry

Campaign info: https://takae.ti-da.net/
Takae residents protest against US military expansion in Yanbaru Forest.

Update 2021:
https://www.civilianexposure.org/us-military-returns-land-to-japan-but-okinawa-isnt-celebrating/

DEU | Altmark: Truppenübungsplatz

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https://www.openstreetbrowser.org/#map=14/52.4880/11.6161&categories=military
 52.486955,  11.604455

Openstreetbrowser 2021

Google Earth “Schnöggersburg” 2020

Google Earth “Schnöggersburg” 2011

Wikipedia DE:   https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truppen%C3%BCbungsplatz_Altmark – https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Übungsstadt_Schnöggersburg

Campaign info: https://www.offeneheide.de/