DTE South East (DTE SE) provides training facilities for the Armed Services’ regular, reserve and cadet units. UK emergency services personnel, plus some foreign units and police forces. DTE SE is also the main centre for UK pre-deployment training.
DTE SE compromises the following facilities: Cinque Ports Training Area; 5 training camps with a total between them of 2,921 beds, the Hythe and Lydd range complexes; ‘dry’ training (i.e without live fire)and watermanship areas in East Kent at Dover, Folkestone, Hythe and Lydd; and dry training areas at Mereworth Woods near Maidstone and at Pippingford Park near Crowborough (East Sussex.
These areas cover about 21,000 acres (8,500 hectares) of which 8,240 acres are freehold with the remainder being private land and Forestry Commission Woodland that the military hire to train over.