Warcop Training Area Camp | training centre, army reserve centre

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The Training Estate was established in 1942 originally as a tank gunnery range and tanks still use it to this day. In 1960 the area became an all-arms facility, catering for artillery and infantry units as well as the ATR (Armoured Training Regiment) at Catterick. However, with the ATR’s demise in 1994, the training emphasis at Warcop changed, and about £2m was spent that year to construct 6 new ranges, and to refurbish existing range facilities, to ensure the concurrent training of 5 platoons with a total strength of up to 240.

Warcop Training Area is used six and a half days a week by the Infantry Training Centre at Catterick, other regular British Army and by Army Reserve using the Warcop Training Camp. Infantry recruits train for a week at a time, and the Infantry Training Centre (ITC) is at Warcop for at least 31 weeks a year, and there is also increasing pressure from many other regular users, mainly for the live firing of a wide range of weapons.

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