A PLACE TO TRAIN

I am lucky enough to live in a very rural area, and I can utilize several hundred acres that I have permission to hunt on. I do have to share this area with several other folks and with a couple miles of hiking can get away fairly easily from the main hunting area. There are some 4 wheel trails, but for the most part there are not many people who go there during the off season.
This is my training area and what I like to do is hike in and set up a base camp. Build a fire from scratch utilizing primitive fire starting techniques. Then after camp is complete I pull out my compass and practice land navigation skills. By plotting a course and hanging targets in different locations (paper plates hung from brush). After this is complete I go back to camp and prepare a meal or practice other skills, or just enjoy the beauty of Appalachia. Sometime in the evening or early the next morning I take my airsoft rifle and start running my drills through the course I have plotted. This is my preference, and the way I see it, it keeps me sharp in between FTXs with my unit. And I get to utilize skills and equipment.
Hopefully most of you have an area you can use, but you don't have to wait for any large scale exercise if you have a place, or find a place to train.

I was lucky enough to pick up some land this last summer at a real estate auction in Northern NY. Bought a house and 5 acres for under $5000.00 (my severence pay for when my job went to China). It's in a small town and don't know if it's useful or not but would be more than willing to let a unit do some training there.
I guess more importantly is the price I paid. Anyone up this way should check the auctions out this year. Might be able to pool some money and buy substantial acres. A lot of the cheaper properties sold were "land locked" and you have to hike in to get to them.

Sorry to hear about your Job, but damn that was a good deal!!!