Cold Weather Military Operations

Military personnel engaged in winter training exercises, featuring snow-covered environments, aircraft maintenance, and soldiers in snowy camouflage, highlighting harsh conditions.

Army soldier with sniper rifle in action in the arctic.
Army soldier with sniper rifle in action in the arctic.
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Accompanied by an Alaska Air National Guardsman, Soviet defectors Anatoly Kachenko and Alexander Kendr depart the Air Force control tower to board a C-130 Hercules aircraft bound for Anchorage. Forged documents enabled the two men to join other journalist covering ceremonies for the arrival of the joint Soviet-American Bering Bridge Expedition in Little Diomede. By attending the event, they were able to seek out an Alaska National Guardsman and request asylum in the United States. Base: Little Diomede State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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030125-M-1852W-009. Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Fuji State: Honshu Country: Japan (JPN) Scene Major Command Shown: 3/12 HQ Btry
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Members of the Coast Guard, Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, and Navy Supervisor of Salvage conduct an oil-spill-on-ice training exercise at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska Feb. 1, 2023. The exercise was structured to comply with the OPA-90 National Preparedness for Response Exercise Program (NPREP) training and drill requirements for deploying oil spill response gear in Arctic conditions within the Alaska geographical area of responsibility.
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The Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft is seen after it landed with Expedition 42 commander Barry Wilmore of NASA, Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Elena Serova of Roscosmos near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Thursday, March 12, 2015. NASA Astronaut Wilmore, Russian Cosmonauts Samokutyaev and Serova are returning after almost six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 41 and 42 crews.
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Sgt. Patrick Blaesing, a Wisconsin Army National Guard combat medic, works with local first responders on hoisting a patient in a SKED litter for transport by Black Hawk helicopter during a search and rescue training exercise Jan. 14 in southern Lincoln County. Submitted photo
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Richard Johnson, a combat artist with the Marine Corps Combat Art Program illustrates Marines during cold weather training in preparation for the NATO exercise Nordic Response 2024 in Setermoen, Norway, Feb. 7, 2024. Nordic Response is a Norwegian national readiness and defense exercise designed to enhance military capabilities and allied cooperation in high-intensity warfighting in a challenging arctic environment. This exercise will test military activities ranging from the reception of allied and partner reinforcements and command and control interoperability to combined joint operations, maritime prepositioning force logistics, integration with NATO militaries, and reacting against an adversary force during a dynamic training environment. The U.S. stands firm in commitment and readiness to support Norway, allies and partners. Marine Corps
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A radar station set up by the 34th Combat Communications Squadron, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, in support of JOINT ENDEAVOR, providing air field radar for incoming and outbound aircraft supporting the NATO Implementation Force (IFOR). Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Tuzla Air Base Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)
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Commandos in white camouflage looking through binoculars in the mountains on the white snow. Portrait in Profile
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020213-A-3438S-007. Base: Fort Mccoy State: Wisconsin (WI) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Shot of Government ordnance Facility #9 which is located in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, during Operation JOINT ENDEAVOR. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Tuzla Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)
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970430-F-9528H-006. Base: Grand Forks State: North Dakota (ND) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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DF-ST-87-08475. Subject Operation/Series: BRIM FROST Base: Fort Greely State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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U.S. and Republic of Korea Marines ride in a chairlift to the top of the mountain during Korea Viper 24.1 at Pyeongchang, Republic of Korea, Feb. 16, 2024. The training teaches Marines multiple skiing techniques, mountain movement, and survival skills in an austere cold weather environment. 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 are 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
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Volunteers participate in the Wreaths Across America annual removal of wreaths, commonly known as Wreaths Out, in Section 69 at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Jan. 20, 2024. This year, nearly 3,000 volunteers removed approximately 260,000 wreaths originally placed at ANC on Dec. 16, 2023.
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The Taborfalva Cantonment area, located southeast of Budapest, Hungary, has been selected to provide U.S. military units in the Balkans sustainment, gunnery and collective training as well as day to day war-fighting focus during Operation Joint Endeavor. This is the construction of what will become the barracks. The living quarters and dining facility will be operational before units begin arriving on 30 March 1996. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Taborfalva Cantonment Area State: Budapest Country: Hungary (HUN)
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An Army M-945 Bridge Boat Truck places one of the assault float bridge pieces into the waters of the Sava River. The truck and equipment used here are from the 130th Engineeer Brigade. The background shows the flooded homes of the engineers where two days prior they resided. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Sava River Country: Croatia (HRV)
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(9 March 2014) --- In Karaganda, Kazakhstan, members of the Russian Search and Recovery Forces lay flowers March 9 at the statue of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly in space, in commemoration of his 80th birthday. Gagarin, who died in an aircraft training accident in 1968, was launched into the history books from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 12, 1961. NASA astronauts and officials were in Karaganda for the commemoration in advance of supporting the landing March 11, Kazakh time, of Expedition 38 crew members Oleg Kotov, Sergey Ryazanskiy and NASAs Michael Hopkins in their Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft.
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A U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II jet with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 542, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, lands in preparation for Exercise Nordic Response 24 in Norway, Feb. 16, 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. Exercise Nordic Response 24 is VMFA-542's first overseas operational exercise as an F-35B Lightning II jet squadron. ( Marine Corps
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Augusta, Ga., Feb.12, 2014 - Georgia National Guardsman Maj. Nicholas Anthony, the B Flight commander for the 165th Air Support Operations Squadron, speaks with a Georgia State Patrol officer at the scene of a recovery of a vehicle that slid off the road along I-20 Interstate highway hit hard by Winter Storm Leon.
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SSGT Gene Burbage, Detachment 8, 1365th Audiovisual Squadron, and A1C Chris Scrivener, 1369th Audiovisual Squadron, photograph the base from their vantage point in front of a weather satellite tracking antenna during the joint service exercise Brim Frost '89. Subject Operation/Series: BRIM FROST '89 Base: Elmendorf Air Force Base State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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120311-N-KR471-025NAVAL AIR FACILITY MISAWA, Japan (March 11, 2012) Cmdr. Dave Cotts, executive officer of Naval Air Facility Misawa, leads Navy personnel assigned to Misawa and their family members in observing a moment of silence to remember those who died in the Great East Japan Earthquake on Friday, March 11, 2011.
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Battle of Western buzzards in snow France
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Virginia National Guard Soldiers from the Fredericksburg-based 116th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 116th Brigade Combat Team perform health and welfare checks of abandoned and stranded vehicles during winter storm operations Feb. 13, 2014. More than 200 Va. Guard personnel are staged across the Commonwealth and ready to rapidly respond if needed by Virginia State Police or local emergency response organizations.
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U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Nathan Leonard, a vehicle recovery operator with Combat Logistics Battalion 6, Combat Logistics Regiment 2, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, participates in a polar plunge event during the extreme cold weather training course prior to Exercise Nordic Response 24 in Setermoen, Norway, Feb. 2,2024. 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
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DF-ST-85-11291. Subject Operation/Series: BRIM FROST '85 Base: Kodiak State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Els Enfarinats flour fight, rebels, armed with flour, eggs and firecrackers, take over the regiment of the city for one day, Plaza de la Iglesia, Ibi, Province of Alicante, Costa Blanca, Spain, Europe
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A welcome sign at the base shows total number of missions, tonnage, and passengers handled by the 615th Aerial Port Squadron. Base: Taszar Air Base Country: Hungary (HUN)
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240123-N-LR905-2032LITTLE FALLS, Minn. (Jan. 23, 2024) - A U.S. Navy Diver assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 2 uses a handheld radio during an ice diving evolution as part of Snow Crab Exercise 24-1. SNOWCRABEX is an annual exercise designed to test and evaluate U.S. Navy EOD and Navy Divers capabilities and equipment in a simulated arctic environment and improve combat effectiveness. Navy EOD and Navy Divers are part of the Navy Expeditionary Combat Force (NECF), enabling the U.S. Navy Fleet by clearing and protecting the battlespace.