The battlefield has changed, in case you guys have not noticed. Combat happens in the urban environment now. It makes sense that they would train in an urban environment. You train like you fight. It's much cheaper to drive the vehicles down the street than to ship them and the personel to a base with a MOUT training facility, of which only exist on 2 bases in the USA that I know of.
And get a clue... US troops are US citizens. Very few will attack other US citizens on US soil. The military knows this, because they have directly asked the troops. Some said yes they would, the overwhelming majority said they would not follow orders to attack US citizens.
Take off your foil hats and let some common sense soak in.
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