Distance, elevation, and terrain a public range cannot give you.
Fifteen hundred acres of New Mexico high desert. Private ground, built for the work.
Distance, elevation, and unforgiving ground you will not find on a public range. Real wind that changes across a valley rather than down a lane. Enough space to run problems at the ranges the job actually happens at, and a sky that goes dark enough to train the way the mission demands.
Most ranges are a lane. You shoot at a known distance, in known conditions, at a target that is exactly where the range officer said it would be. That builds a skill which quietly falls apart the moment any of those things stop being true.
Here the wind changes across a valley rather than down a lane, the elevation moves under you, and the ground gives you real positions and real problems. The terrain does a large part of the teaching, and it is the part that cannot be replicated on a square range at any price.
Trainees stay on the ranch for the full five days. That is not a logistics convenience, it is most of why the course works: no commute, no evening drain, and enough continuous time for the instruction to settle before it is tested again the next morning.
The accommodations and the food are deliberately good. Recovery, nutrition, and sleep are taught here as part of the curriculum rather than left to chance: eating for anti-inflammation and cognition, sleep treated as equipment, and cold-water recovery including ice baths.
Twenty-two years of overseas wear taught the people who run this what it costs to ignore all of that. An officer should learn it at twenty-five, not work it out at forty.