Cold Weather Military Exercises

Soldiers engage in challenging cold weather training and operations in snowy terrains, emphasizing teamwork and survival skills in Arctic conditions.

Winter arctic mountains warfare.

BEYOND BORDERS (2003), directed by MARTIN CAMPBELL.

DA-SC-87-09029. Subject Operation/Series: BRIM FROST Base: Galbrieth Lake State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Marine Corps Mariah Perez, a motor vehicle operator with Combat Logistics Battalion 2, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, conducts an ice breaker drill as part of Marine Rotational Forces Europe 23.1 in Setermoen, Norway Feb. 9, 2023. MRF-E focuses on regional engagements throughout Europe by conducting various exercises, mountain-warfare training, and military-to- military engagements which enhance overall interoperability of the U.S. Marine Corps with allies and partners.

Soldiers (in winter attire) of the 4th Battalion, 11th Field Artillery, Fort Richardson, Alaska, set up the 105mm Howitzer cannon after the mass air drop at Donnelly Drop Zone during NORTHERN EDGE '98, an annual Joint Chiefs of STAFF winter exercise involving air and ground units of all services. Subject Operation/Series: NORTHERN EDGE '98 Base: Fort Greely State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Battalion 2, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, conduct a convoy live-fire range in Setermoen, Norway March 24, 2023. Marines are deployed to Norway as part of Marine Rotational Forces Europe 23.1 which focuses on regional engagements throughout Europe by conducting various exercises, arctic cold-weather and mountain warfare training, and military-to-military engagements, which enhance overall interoperability of the U.S. Marine Corps with allies and partners.

U.S. Soldiers from Alpha Company, 1st Platoon, Personnel Security Detail, 101st Airborne Division exit a CH-47 Chinook helicopter to provide security in Bagram, Afghanistan, Feb. 15, 2009.

060302-A-3760M-065. Subject Operation/Series: NOBLE SHEPHERD Base: Hohenfels State: Bavaria Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU) Scene Major Command Shown: 1ST INFANTRY DIVISION

A team member receives a target prior to the M-16 riflery event, part of the civil engineering/services competition Readiness Challenge '90. All participants in the event are wearing chemical warfare gear. Subject Operation/Series: READINESS CHALLENGE '90 Base: Hurlburt Field State: Florida (FL) Country: United States Of America (USA)

M-16A2 rifles and knapsacks stand in the snow during CALFEX '90, a joint service, combined arms live-fire exercise. Subject Operation/Series: CALFEX '90 Base: Eielson Air Force Base State: Alaska(AK) Country: United States Of America(USA)

U.S. and Republic of Korea Marines shovel snow to clear a pathway during Korea Viper 24.1 at Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea Feb. 15, 2024. In its first iteration, Korea Viper demonstrates the ROK-US Marine Corps ability to respond decisively in the region as a singular, unified force while strengthening relationships and trust between the two allies. The Marines with 2d Battalion, 7th Marines. 2/7 is forward deployed in the Indo-Pacific under 4th Marine Regiment, 3d Marine Division as part of the Unit Deployment Program. Marine Corps

U.S. Marines with 1st and 2nd Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company (ANGLICO), subordinate units of I and II Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, and U.S. Army National Guardsman with 1st Battalion, 120th Field Artillery Regiment, Delta Battery, prepare for a night-time close air support integration training for exercise Northern Strike while at Camp Grayling, Grayling, Michigan, Jan. 26, 2021. ANGLICO is working alongside the Army National Guard during Northern Strike, to which both benefit from varied knowledge within technical skills and survival, aiding in ANGLICOs global posture for operations within the information environment battlespace to enhance the commanders ability to maneuver in a complex and highly contested environment.

Airmen with multiple Air National Guard security forces units prepare for a training event Jan. 19, 2023, as part of a 16-day Cold-Weather Operations Course led by the Air Force at Fort McCoy, Wis. More than 50 Airmen are participating in the training from across the Air Force. Besides learning about use of snowshoes and moving as a squad over terrain pulling an ahkio sled in a cold-weather environment, the Airmen also learned about cold-weather shelters, survival techniques, cold-weather uniform wear, and more. Fort McCoy has a long history of supporting cold-weather training. Eighty years prior to this training, in January 1943, the installation hosted winter training for the Army's 76th Division prior to the Division deploying to Europe to fight in the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.

US Air Force (USAF) SENIOR AIRMAN (SRA) Raul Figueroa, assigned to the 319th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (AMXS), installs a heater hose near a KC-135R Stratotanker during sub-zero tempratures, at Grand Forks Air Force Base (AFB), North Dakota (ND). Base: Grand Forks Air Force Base State: North Dakota (ND) Country: United States Of America (USA)

4th Combat Camera Squadron videographer US Air Force MASTER Sergeant Russell Garcia captures a taxing C-141C Starlifter aircraft out of March Air Reserve Base, California, on video on the Pegasus runway, McMurdo Station, Antarctica, during Operation DEEP FREEZE. Deep Freeze is a joint military operation of the US armed forces and the New Zealand Defence Forces, to provide logistic support for the US National Science Foundation's Antarctic program. Subject Operation/Series: DEEP FREEZE Base: Mcmurdo Station Country: Antarctica (ATA)

Arctic Ocean, March 19, 2011 - Sailors and members of the Applied Physics Laboratory Ice Station clear ice from the hatch of the Seawolf-class submarine USS Connecticut (SSN-22) as it surfaces above the ice during ICEX 2011.

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Ryan Herrera, right, a transmissions system operator with Combat Logistics Regiment 3, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, drags a simulated casualty in a Tactical Combat Casualty Care refresher course during exercise Winter Workhorse 24 on Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, Feb. 6, 2024. Winter Workhorse is a regularly scheduled training exercise that is designed to enhance warfighting capabilities in contested environments. Marine Corps

ARCTIC CIRCLE (March 14, 2016) Sailors and civilians, assigned to Arctic Submarine Lab, clear the ice from the hatch of USS Hampton (SSN 767) during Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2016. ICEX 2016 is a five-week exercise designed to research, test, and evaluate operational capabilities in the region. ICEX 2016 allows the U.S. Navy to assess operational readiness in the Arctic, increase experience in the region, advance understanding of the Arctic environment, and develop partnerships and collaborative efforts.

DM-SN-89-07895. Base: Marine Corps Base, Quantico State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A member of the National Guard sets up a laptop with a satellite dish to transmit Inferno race times to the bottom of the course at Pinckham Notch

Reconnaissance squadron advancing cautiously through snow with rifle grenades, attacking German snipers discovered on the outskirts of the newly captured town of Beffe, Belgium, U.S. Army Signal Corps, January 7, 1945

030216-M-2796K-029. Base: Camp Engaru State: Hokkaido Country: Japan (JPN)

The sail of the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS BILLFISH (SSN-676) protudes from the ice while the ship is surfaced at the North Pole. The sail-mounted diving planes are in the vertical position for breaking through the ice. Country: Arctic

U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class William Baldwin, left, a native of California and a hospital corpsman, and U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Colin Rowan, right, a native of Maryland and a low-altitude air-defense (LAAD) gunner, both with 2nd LAAD Battalion, Marine Air Control Group 28, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, fire a stinger-launch simulator during a live-fire training range in preparation for Exercise Nordic Response 24 at Setermoen, Norway, Feb. 29, 2024. Exercise Nordic Response, formerly known as Cold Response, is a NATO training event conducted every two years to promote military competency in arctic environments and to foster interoperability between the U.S. Marine Corps and allied nations. Marine Corps

An Air National Guard Security Forces specialist assigned to the 178th Wing, Ohio Air National Guard, participates in a cold-water immersion as part of the Air National Guard's Security Forces Cold Weather Operations Course (CWOC) at Camp Ripley Training Center, Minnesota, on January 18, 2024. The two-week CWOC course combined classroom instruction, outdoor skills development, and a 3-day, field training event that required students to build and sleep in arctic tent systems, subsisting on cold weather Meals Ready to Eat and incorporated land navigation, live saving skills, and cold water immersion events. 50 students from Air National Guard wings from across the U.S. participated in the advanced, cold weather survival course planned by personnel assigned to the 148th Fighter Wing, Minnesota Air National Guard.

U.S. Airmen from the 290th Joint Communications Support Squadron set up a tent Feb. 7, 2023, at Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, Michigan. The Airmen are performing two weeks of annual training in a cold weather environment. The tent will provide a space to stay warm during cold weather training.

GRAYLING, Mich. - U.S. Army Soldiers from the 20th Special Forces Group, Massachusetts National Guard, engage in cross-country ski training during Northern Strike 2 -1 (Winter Strike”) at the National All-Domain Warfighting Center (NADWC), Grayling, Mich., Jan. 23, 2022. Winter Strike, the winter iteration of the Northern Strike exercise program, takes place at Northern Michigan’s NADWC. The NADWC serves as the perfect place for units across the Department of Defense to experience cold-weather, all-domain training, allowing participants to enhance their Arctic warfare capabilities. (U.S. National Guard photo by Master Sgt. David Kujawa)

Special Tactics Airmen assigned to the 24th Special Operations Wing, Detachment 1, also known as Deployment Cell or D-Cell, stop for a picture after a training exercise at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Jan. 7, 2023. Based out of MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, D-Cell consists of 54 members across 15 job codes forming four agile teams, whose primary role is to bare base - to rapidly turn undeveloped locations into fully functional bases. The unit visited Alaska to train and test their capabilities in an arctic environment.

DF-ST-85-11254. Subject Operation/Series: BRIM FROST '85 Base: Clear Creek State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U. S. Army paratroopers assigned to the 54th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade, conduct M4 carbine qualifications in prone position during a live-fire exercise as part of Castle Dvorac 24 in Slunj, Croatia, Jan. 23, 2024. The 173rd Airborne Brigade is the U.S. Army's Contingency Response Force in Europe, providing rapidly deployableforces to the United States European, African, and Central Command areas of responsibility. Forward deployedacross Italy and Germany, the brigade routinely trains alongside NATO allies and partners to build partnerships andstrengthen the alliance.

Airmen with multiple Air National Guard security forces units learn squad tactics pulling an ahkio sled Jan. 18, 2023, as part of a 16-day Cold-Weather Operations Course led by the Air Force at Fort McCoy, Wis. More than 50 Airmen are participating in the training from across the Air Force. Besides learning about use of snowshoes and moving as a squad over terrain pulling an ahkio sled in a cold-weather environment, the Airmen also learned about cold-weather shelters, survival techniques, cold-weather uniform wear, and more. Fort McCoy has a long history of supporting cold-weather training. Eighty years prior to this training, in January 1943, the installation hosted winter training for the Army's 76th Division prior to the Division deploying to Europe to fight in the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.

U.S. Airmen from the 290th Joint Communications Support Squadron set up a tent Feb. 7, 2023, at Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, Michigan. The Airmen are performing two weeks of annual training in a cold weather environment. The tent will provide a space to stay warm during cold weather training.

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Army serviceman in winter camo somewhere in the Arctic.

DF-ST-87-08439. Subject Operation/Series: BRIM FROST Base: Fort Wainwright State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

In the early morning sun and with snow-covered ground, AIRMAN 1ST Class Brent Schultz, 341 CS/SCSP, and SENIOR AIRMAN Theodore Mackey, 341 CS/SCMMG, help the Canadians unload boxes of Individual Meal Packets (IMP) from the rear of a truck. The IMPs will be issued to the five-man teams to consume while out on the trail. The exercise is a Canadian military winter operations indoctrination course. Subject Operation/Series: INCLEMENT WANDERER Base: Camp Worthington State: Alberta (AB) Country: Canada (CAN)

CPL Rodriguez from the1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, Communication Company, works on a High Frequency Antenna during NORTHERN EDGE. Subject Operation/Series: NORTHERN EDGE Base: Fort Wainwright State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

A soldier drives an M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV)) ambulance past an M-973 small unit support vehicle (SUSV) ambulance at an aid station during the joint readiness exercise Arctic Warrior '91. Subject Operation/Series: ARCTIC WARRIOR '91 Base: Fort Greely State: Alaska(AK) Country: United States Of America(USA)

DA-ST-90-01588. Subject Operation/Series: BRIM FROST '89 Base: Fort Richardson State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Minnesota National Guardsmen follow along behind a track vehicle as they conduct cold-weather training at Camp Vearnes, Norway, on Feb. 18, 2008. The Guardsmen are participating in the 35th Annual U.S./Norwegian Troop Reciprocal Exchange which is a two-week winter training and a cultural exchange.

Day two of Exercise Alpini Climb concludes with Sky Soldier leaders hiking to over 2600 meters above sea level and digging temporary snow shelters to face the frigid night in Passo del Tonale, Italy on December 11, 2018.

DF-ST-85-11242. Subject Operation/Series: BRIM FROST '85 Base: Fort Wainwright State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Army paratroopers with Baker Company, 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 11th Airborne Division, pull supplies to maintain their M2 .50-caliber machine gun while conducting night operations during Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center-Alaska 23-02 at Yukon Training Area, Fort Wainwright, Alaska, April 2, 2023. JPMRC-AK 23-02 is a display of the 11th Airborne Divisions ability to survive and thrive in the Arctic, and its soldiers ability to fight and win our nations wars anywhere.

Airmen with multiple Air National Guard security forces units learn squad tactics pulling an ahkio sled Jan. 18, 2023, as part of a 16-day Cold-Weather Operations Course led by the Air Force at Fort McCoy, Wis. More than 50 Airmen are participating in the training from across the Air Force. Besides learning about use of snowshoes and moving as a squad over terrain pulling an ahkio sled in a cold-weather environment, the Airmen also learned about cold-weather shelters, survival techniques, cold-weather uniform wear, and more. Fort McCoy has a long history of supporting cold-weather training. Eighty years prior to this training, in January 1943, the installation hosted winter training for the Army's 76th Division prior to the Division deploying to Europe to fight in the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.

U.S. Marine Cpl. Brett Goodson, a data systems administrator with Combat Logistics Battalion 2, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, gives a hug to a Marine during a meritorious promotion in Setermoen, Norway, Feb. 2, 2023. Sgt. Goodson was meritoriously promoted to the rank of sergeant by 2nd MLG, having stood out amongst his peers and demonstrated exceptional performance of his duties.

An US Army B Co., 9th Engineer, using an AN-19/2 Mine Detector, searches for mines buried in the snow-covered ground to clear a path to a simulated casualty during a Quick Force Reaction exercise being carried out by US Army soldiers from Camp Dobol, located near Ridosici, Bosnia-Herzegovina, during Operation Joint Edeavor. Operation Joint Endeavor is a peacekeeping effort by a multinational Implementation Force (IFOR), comprised of NATO and non-NATO military forces, deployed to Bosnia in support of the Dayton Peace Accords. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Country: Unknown

DF-ST-85-11232. Subject Operation/Series: BRIM FROST '85 Base: Fort Wainwright State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DF-ST-85-11292. Subject Operation/Series: BRIM FROST '85 Base: Galbrieth Lake State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Marines with Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division conduct a simulated raid during exercise Cold Response (CR) 2010 Feb. 26, 2010, in Norway. CR 2010 is a Norwegian-sponsored exercise with the Norwegian armed forces focused on cold weather maritime/amphibious operations, interoperability of expeditionary forces, special and ground operations. Participants include forces from Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Austria and other NATO partners.

Members of the 26th Marine Amphibious Unit are on a force march as they participate in Exercise Alpine Warrior '82. Subject Operation/Series: ALPINE WARRIOR '82 Base: Camp Ripley State: Minnesota (MN) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Finnish Marines assigned to the Nyland Brigade embark the Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44), during a port visit in Harstad, Norway, before participating in exercise Steadfast Defender 24, Feb. 26, 2024. Steadfast Defender 2024, NATOs largest exercise in decades, will demonstrate NATOs ability to deploy forces rapidly from across the Alliance to reinforce the defense of Europe. Navy

Members of the A-10 recovery team climb to the snow covered upper debris field to begin a subsurface search using their Schonstadt Magnetic Influence Detectors. Base: Gold Dust Peak State: Colorado (CO) Country: United States Of America (USA)

DF-ST-88-05080. Subject Operation/Series: COBBLER FREEZE Base: Deadhorse State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Marines with Combat Logistics Regiment 3, 3rd Marine Logistics Group, position a camouflage netting to conceal the combat operations center during exercise Winter Workhorse 24 on Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji, Japan, Feb. 4, 2024. Winter Workhorse is a regularly scheduled training exercise that is designed to enhance warfighting capabilities in contested environments. Marine Corps

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Will Weber, with 4th Reconnaissance Battalion, 4th Marine Division, constructs a field expedient antenna during training at the Camp Ethan Allen Training Site in Jericho, Vt., Jan. 16, 2010. The Marines of the 4th Marine Division are preparing for exercise Cold Response 2010, a NATO-sponsored multinational exercise to be held in Norway.

BGEN Donald A. Streater (left), commander of the A-10 recovery effort, points out the location of pararescuemen on the face of Gold Dust Peak to reporter Kristen Lee (right) and cameraman Andrew Melendez, both with a Tucson affiliate of ABC News. Base: Gold Dust Peak State: Colorado (CO) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Michael Karman, a telecommunications system information repair technician with Communications Company, Headquarters Battalion, 2d Marine Division, installs communications equipment on a Bandvagn 206 tracked vehicle in Setermoen, Norway on Dec. 4, 2022. This communications upgrade enables U.S. Forces to better communicate during operations and exercises as well as set the groundwork for advanced communications capabilities with NATO Allies in the future.

An Air National Guard Security Forces specialist assigned to the 178th Wing, Ohio Air National Guard, participates in a cold-water immersion as part of the Air National Guard's Security Forces Cold Weather Operations Course (CWOC) at Camp Ripley Training Center, Minnesota, on January 18, 2024. The two-week CWOC course combined classroom instruction, outdoor skills development, and a 3-day, field training event that required students to build and sleep in arctic tent systems, subsisting on cold weather Meals Ready to Eat and incorporated land navigation, live saving skills, and cold water immersion events. 50 students from Air National Guard wings from across the U.S. participated in the advanced, cold weather survival course planned by personnel assigned to the 148th Fighter Wing, Minnesota Air National Guard.

PFC Grady Pearson makes notes on a gunner's reference card as PFC Mati Puleola inspects the recoil mechanism on an M-101 105mm howitzer during CALFEX '90, a joint service, combined arms live-fire exercise. The soldiers belong to Btry. B, 5th Bn., 11th Field Arty. Subject Operation/Series: CALFEX '90 Base: Eielson Air Force Base State: Alaska(AK) Country: United States Of America(USA)

Exercise Strong Resolve 1995. A stinger team in the statement. In the UN Nato exercise Strong Resolve 1995, Greenland (Norway Bezuiden Trondheim) is threatened by Witland (Norway Beneden Trondheim). In the first phase of the exercise, crisis management is practiced and in the second phase an actual raid of Witland in Greenland. 8 countries participate. From the Dutch side, part F-16s, a unit aircraft missiles and 700 marines. The training grounds is the Oerland peninsula near Trondheim.

A soldier from Alpha Company, 2/3rd Division, Field Artillery, Butzbach, Germany, guides in his units vehicles for uploading at the railhead in support of Operation Joint Endeavor. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Butzbach Country: Deutschland / Germany (DEU)

An Air National Guard Security Forces specialist participates in a cold-water immersion as part of the Air National Guard's Security Forces Cold Weather Operations Course (CWOC) at Camp Ripley Training Center, Minnesota, on January 18, 2024. The two-week CWOC course combined classroom instruction, outdoor skills development, and a 3-day, field training event that required students to build and sleep in arctic tent systems, subsisting on cold weather Meals Ready to Eat and incorporated land navigation, live saving skills, and cold water immersion events. 50 students from Air National Guard wings from across the U.S. participated in the advanced, cold weather survival course planned by personnel assigned to the 148th Fighter Wing, Minnesota Air National Guard.

U.S. Marines with 2d Combat Engineer Battalion, 2d Marine Division, prepare ammunition during a live-fire range while deployed with Marine Rotational Forces Europe (MRF-E) 23.1 in Setermoen, Norway, April 1, 2023. MRF-E focuses on regional engagements throughout Europe by conducting various exercises, mountain warfare training, and military-to-military engagements which enhance overall interoperability of the U.S. Marine Corps with allies and partners.

Airmen with multiple Air National Guard security forces units learn squad tactics pulling an ahkio sled Jan. 19, 2023, as part of a 16-day Cold-Weather Operations Course led by the Air Force at Fort McCoy, Wis. More than 50 Airmen were participating in the training from across the Air Force. Besides learning about use of snowshoes and moving as a squad over terrain pulling an ahkio sled in a cold-weather environment, the Airmen also learned about cold-weather shelters, survival techniques, cold-weather uniform wear, and more. Fort McCoy has a long history of supporting cold-weather training. Eighty years prior to this training, in January 1943, the installation hosted winter training for the Army's 76th Division prior to the Division deploying to Europe to fight in the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.

Soldiers from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment, also known as the Sugar Bears, pose for a group photo with National Park Service staff on Kahiltna Glacier after transporting and offloading gear for the National Park Service at the mountaineering base camp. (US Army photo, Eve Baker, Fort Wainwright Public Affairs Office)

An A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft assigned to the 104th Fighter Squadron, Maryland Air National Guard, flies over Altevatnet lake in Bardu, Norway, during Swift Response, May 10, 2022. Swift Response is an annual USAREUR-AF led multinational training exercise taking place throughout Eastern Europe, including the Arctic, Baltic Sea, and the Balkan Peninsula regions and is designed to enhance readiness and airborne interoperability with allies and partners.

Members of the 3rd Bn., 22nd Inf., 25th Inf. Div., carry their skis while snowshoeing single file across a field during exercise Northwind '87. Members of the 25th Infantry Division are undergoing 23 days of special cold weather training with members of the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force in the Kotani and Hirosaki Training Areas. Subject Operation/Series: NORTHWIND '87 Base: Camp Aomori Country: Japan (JPN)

Airmen with multiple Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve security forces units learn squad tactics pulling an ahkio sled Jan. 18, 2023, as part of a 16-day Cold-Weather Operations Course led by the Air Force at Fort McCoy, Wis. More than 50 Airmen are participating in the training from across the Air Force. Besides learning about use of snowshoes and moving as a squad over terrain pulling an ahkio sled in a cold-weather environment, the Airmen also learned about cold-weather shelters, survival techniques, cold-weather uniform wear, and more. Fort McCoy has a long history of supporting cold-weather training. Eighty years prior to this training, in January 1943, the installation hosted winter training for the Army's 76th Division prior to the Division deploying to Europe to fight in the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.

CPT Ron Danielson, a "downed" pilot from the 353rd Tactical Fighter Squadron, builds a camp fire during survival training. Danielson is participating in Exercise Brim Frost '81. Subject Operation/Series: BRIM FROST '81 Base: Yukon GUNNERY Range State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

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Cargo is offloaded, using a front end loader, from the C-141 Starlifter assigned to the 8th Airlift Squadron (AS), 62nd Airlift Wing, McChord Air Force Base, Washington. The plane sits on the six foot thick ice runway at the base after a flight from Christchurch, New Zealand. The 8th AS is deployed to support the joint, U.S. Armed Forces and New Zealand Defense Force, military operation which provides logistic support to the U.S. National Science Foundation's Program on Antarctica. SCREEN RESOLUTION ONLY. Subject Operation/Series: DEEP FREEZE State: Mcmurdo Sound Country: Antarctica (ATA)

Students of the Navy's Cold Weather Environmental Survival Training are taught various survival techniques by an instructor from the Fleet Aviation Specialized Operational Training Group Atlantic (FASO). Base: New Brunswick State: Maine (ME) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Ice-covered branches explode as SGT Thomas Kelly, Company A, 149th BSB, uses a chainsaw to cut them on a road clearing mission in Mayfield, Kent., Friday, Jan. 30, 2009.

Crewmen and a group of official visitors stand on the ice atop the hull of the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS PARGO (SSN 650) north of the Arctic Circle.. Country: Unknown

A scene of Equipment Park is shown Dec. 9, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis., after a fresh snowfall left several inches of snow. Equipment Park is inside the installations historic Commemorative Area. The Equipment Park is an outdoor display of historic and present-day equipment representative of the types used on the installation. The design of the park allows for display of 70 pieces of equipment, ranging from helicopters and howitzers to trucks and trailers. The Commemorative Area also consists of five World War II-era buildings set aside to help tell Fort McCoys unique story. These facilities are representative of the types found in the cantonment area when it was constructed in 1942.

Two crew members keep watch on the rear ramp of a CH-47 Chinook while flying over the mountains in the Khas Uruzgan district of Afghanistan on March 16, 2013.

The Naval Underwater Ordinance Station (NUOS) after a Heavy Snowstorm. 1969-02-28T00:00:00.

Smoke spreads over a range after flares were dropped from a 343rd Tactical Fighter Wing A-10A Thunderbolt II during CALFEX '90, a joint service, combined arms live-fire exercise. Subject Operation/Series: CALFEX '90 Base: Eielson Air Force Base State: Alaska(AK) Country: United States Of America(USA)

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 11th Airborne Division, pull supplies on a snow machine as part of Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center 24-02 at Donnelly Training Area, Alaska, Feb. 11, 2024. JPMRC 24-02, executed in Alaska with its world-class training facilities and its harsh Arctic environment, builds Soldiers and leaders into a cohesive team of skilled, tough, alert, and adaptive warriors capable of fighting and winning anywhere in the world. Army

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Connor Vance, 28th Maintenance Squadron aircraft fuel systems specialist, assigned to Ellsworth AF Base, South Dakota, but deployed to Bomber Task Force 24-2, takes a break alongside a snowman he created at Luleå-Kallax Air Base, Sweden, Feb. 26, 2024. BTF operations provide U.S. leaders with strategic options to assure Allies and partners, while deterring potential adversary aggression across the globe. Air Force video by 1st Lt. Cameron Silver)

U.S. Navy Landing Craft, Air-Cushion 85 with Assault Craft unit 4, offloads vehicles with the Ground Combat Element, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, in Tromso, Norway, April 12, 2022. The 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, embarked aboard the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group, is participating in a bilateral training event with the Kingdom of Norways Armed Forces to strengthen U.S. and Norway interoperability ensuring collective capabilities and steadfast partnerships among NATO allies and partners.

A security policeman patrols the area on a snowmobile during Exercise Brim Frost '83. Subject Operation/Series: Brim Frost '83 Base: Clear Creek State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Exercise Strong Resolve 1995. A stinger team in the statement. In the UN Nato exercise Strong Resolve 1995, Greenland (Norway Bezuiden Trondheim) is threatened by Witland (Norway Beneden Trondheim). In the first phase of the exercise, crisis management is practiced and in the second phase an actual raid of Witland in Greenland. 8 countries participate. From the Dutch side, part F-16s, a unit aircraft missiles and 700 marines. The training grounds is the Oerland peninsula near Trondheim.

DN-ST-86-03666. Base: Naval Submarine Base, Groton State: Connecticut (CT) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Marines with 3d Battalion, 3d Marines, trek through snowy terrain at Mountain Warfare Training Center, Bridgeport, Calif., Jan. 22, 2022. 3/3 conducted winter survival training, winter terrain mobility training, and built defensive positions as part of Mountain Warfare Training Exercise 2-22 in order to increase combat lethality and readiness. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Patrick King)

U.S. Marines, assigned to the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, and Norwegian Army soldiers set up a tactical operations center during a bilateral training event in Setermoen, Norway, April 27, 2022. The 22nd MEU, embarked aboard the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group, is participating in a bilateral training event with the Kingdom of Norways Armed Forces to strengthen U.S. and Norway interoperability ensuring collective capabilities and steadfast partnerships among NATO allies and partners.

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Ian Koval, a Pennsylvania native and a satellite operator with Combat Logistics Battalion 6, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, sets up communications equipment during a littoral distribution exercise in preparation for Exercise Nordic Response 24 in Setermoen, Norway, Feb. 20, 2024. Exercise Nordic Response, formerly known as Cold Response, is a NATO training event conducted every two years to promote military competency in arctic environments and to foster interoperability between the U.S. Marine Corps and allied nations. Marine Corps

Crewmembers aboard CGC Spar handle lines on the focsle as the ship pulls into Duluth, Minnesota for the first time, March 30, 2022. CGC Spar is a 222' Juniper Class Buoy Tender and the newest addition to the Coast Guard Ninth District Great Lakes fleet.

Two men laugh as a helicopter lands at a backcountry hut.

Airmen with multiple Air National Guard security forces units learn squad tactics pulling an ahkio sled Jan. 18, 2023, as part of a 16-day Cold-Weather Operations Course led by the Air Force at Fort McCoy, Wis. More than 50 Airmen are participating in the training from across the Air Force. Besides learning about use of snowshoes and moving as a squad over terrain pulling an ahkio sled in a cold-weather environment, the Airmen also learned about cold-weather shelters, survival techniques, cold-weather uniform wear, and more. Fort McCoy has a long history of supporting cold-weather training. Eighty years prior to this training, in January 1943, the installation hosted winter training for the Army's 76th Division prior to the Division deploying to Europe to fight in the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.

An Air National Guard Security Forces specialist assigned to the 109th Airlift Wing, New York Air National Guard, participates in a cold-water immersion as part of the Air National Guard's Security Forces Cold Weather Operations Course (CWOC) at Camp Ripley Training Center, Minnesota, on January 18, 2024. The two-week CWOC course combined classroom instruction, outdoor skills development, and a 3-day, field training event that required students to build and sleep in arctic tent systems, subsisting on cold weather Meals Ready to Eat and incorporated land navigation, live saving skills, and cold water immersion events. 50 students from Air National Guard wings from across the U.S. participated in the advanced, cold weather survival course planned by personnel assigned to the 148th Fighter Wing, Minnesota Air National Guard.

DN-SN-88-07111. Base: Clifford Lake State: Indiana (IN) Country: United States Of America (USA)

U.S. Marines with 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, volunteer at the Troms County Championship Biathlon as part of a community engagement event in Setermoen, Norway, Feb. 10, 2024. U.S. Marines and sailors of 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment are participating in exercise Nordic Response 2024 and are conducting community relation events to give back to the hosting community and to strengthen the bonds between the U.S. and all NATO allies. Marine Corps

U.S. Army Sgt. Ashaun Howard, a motor transport operator attached to the 719th Transportation Company, New York Army National Guard, performs last minute checks on Humvees designated for use as part of the Guard's response to the winter storms, at Camp Smith Training Site, N.Y., January 4, 2017. (

Members of the Minnesota National Guard and Norwegian Home Guard set up base camp in Snaasa, Norway, Feb. 17, 2015. During the field training exercise (FTX) the Airmen and Soldiers operated in winter conditions using the basic skills that they learned from their Norwegian Home Guard instructors. (Minnesota National Guard

Airmen with multiple Air National Guard security forces units learn to build an Arctic 10-person tent Jan. 19, 2023, as part of a 16-day Cold-Weather Operations Course led by the Air Force at Fort McCoy, Wis. More than 50 Airmen were participating in the training from across the Air Force. Besides learning about using these tents in a cold-weather environment, the Airmen also learned about building improvised cold-weather shelters, survival techniques, cold-weather uniform wear, and more. Fort McCoy has a long history of supporting cold-weather training. Eighty years prior to this training, in January 1943, the installation hosted winter training for the Army's 76th Division prior to the Division deploying to Europe to fight in the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.

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