Oh dear. No - you're mixing quality training with environmental training... Other than for VHR units environmental training will be conducted once in theatre - which was what we used to do! Of course this is not where any of us would like to be (or are used to after the last 15 years) but this is about choices. If defence wants everyone ready to go off the ramp they need to pay for it (and we can't afford it).
And no the army cannot afford to train all of its people for all eventualities either - have you not seen how much Army training has been slashed in recent years for what (for aviation) is peanuts? I agree, if we had bottomless pockets we should do as much training as possible in challenging environmental conditions but, sadly, financially that's not where we are... But the fallacy that good trg only occurs on swanky overseas dets living in hotels is nonsense.
