Soldiers begin six-month tour with 'World's toughest driving test' 24.03.11

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Some of the military just arriving for six months in Helmand have never before driven vehicles used in theatre, nor experienced the challenges of terrain that can be as threatening as the enemy. So instructors send them over a huge and realistic extreme off-road course where everything from quad bikes to 30-tonne armoured vehicles attempt crossing thirty-foot-high sand beams, dried river beds and see-sawing undulations that test springs and nerves to the max.



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