The only consequence is what we do. —JOHN RUSKIN, BRITISH ART CRITIC, WRITER, AND PHILANTHROPIST DRAWSKO POMORSKIE MILITARY TRAINING AREA, NORTHWEST POLAND SEVERAL DAYS LATER Set in western Pomerania’s patchwork of woods, rolling hills, swamps, broad clearings, and villages, the military training area was the largest of its kind in Europe, with more than one hundred and thirty square miles of territory available for maneuvers and live fire exercises. Littered with the burned-out hulks of old Soviet tanks and self-propelled guns, it had been used by the Polish Army since 1945 and by NATO forces since 1996. Now Drawsko Pomorskie had been turned over to Scion. For more than seventy-two hours, Sky Masters cargo aircraft had been busy flying in more old military equipment—U.S. Army surplus Humvees, M-60 tanks, M-113 armored personnel carriers, Huey helicopters, and aircraft salvaged from the U.S. Air Force’s Boneyard, including F-4 Phantoms and T-38 Talon trainers. Polish Army combat engineers and other technical specialists had dispersed this array of vehicles and aircraft across a sector of the exercise area.
