Military training areas

[NP99]

If you are into research and exploring areas this link might be handy. It's state by state from 1880

http://forum.kimbucktwo.com/index.php/topic,7200.0.html

[NissanGQ4.2]

Nice find, got any links 2 websites that have current training area

[NP99]

Better still, a map :)

http://www.defence.gov.au/oscdf/adf-posture-review/docs/base_map.pdf

[Gecko17]

This is a true story from NZ.

A while back, around about the 80's, a young man decided it would be great to go in to the known Army live firing range in Waiouru, NZ. The area he went in to was regularly used for live mortar fire (but not on the day he went looking...)

As he walked around the area, he found lots of cool stuff, including two live, unexploded mortar shells. As he was walking back to his car, with his collection, and carrying a mortar bomb in each hand, it can only be said that he must of gotten board on the long walk out of the area, because he decided to bang both shells together.

The result of this unfortunate decision was that this young man was killed. Blown to bits by the combined destructive power of two high explosive bombs. Regretably, he decided not to heed the sign (that he had parked near) that stated that the area he had gone in to was used as a live firing range, that there where known unexploded bombs in the area and that entry in to the area without correct authorisation was prohibited by law.

He lost his life for a few trinkets that he could have gotten (safely) from an army surplus store.

If you venture, whether by accident or on purpose, in to an area used for live firing, there is ALWAYS the chance that you may come across unexploded ordiance.

In other words, treat anything you find as Live and leave it the Fark alone.

[NP99]

Good advice, those signs are there for a reason.....

[NissanGQ4.2]

Better still, a map :)

http://www.defence.gov.au/oscdf/adf-posture-review/docs/base_map.pdf

I can't get this link 2 work

[NP99]

It works this end, I'll see if I can fix something.