It's really a shame. I'm old enough to remember Yakima being a pretty OK place. Never amazing, but a solid place for white people to raise a family (with the Mexicans safely cordoned off in Selah). The last 20 years' explosion of immigration, fent, and meth have really fucked Eastern Washington.
Honestly none of these cities we're talking about are places I'd want to go to the qwik-e-mart at 11pm for a beer run, and if Stranger was starting shit in a parking lot, he only has himself to blame. Although its not like it's better in the other urban areas in the state. Really, I'd rather just deal with Mexicans than the pungent mélange of violent Somalis, scamming Jeets, and random 70-IQ sand people we get west of the cascades.
It's part of the
Yakima Training Center, which is one of the Army's biggest live-fire training areas, with room for artillery and tanks to practice. A good chunk of combat arms guys (infantry, artillery, and armor) spend a lot of time there before getting deployed.
From what I've read the Afghan village is one of the places where they mock up brown people houses to practice doorkicking. No actual Afghans involved.