Cold Weather Military Training

Airmen and Marines in snowy landscapes engage in cold-weather operations training, focusing on survival techniques and tactical maneuvers in harsh conditions.

Winter arctic mountains warfare.
Winter arctic mountains warfare.
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U.S. Marines with the 4th Reconnaissance Battalion, as well as the 2nd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, conduct a training movement 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.
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Engineers from Bravo Company, 864th Engineer Battalion, Fort Lewis, Wash., putt up wall structures for a new bunker that will serve as an outpost in the middle of the mountains in eastern Afghanistan.
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Soldiers from Charlie Company (Medical), 186 Brigade Support Battalion, 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Mountain), Vermont Army National Guard, set up tents for a triage center outside the University of Vermont Medical Center Emergency Room, March 24. The medics will assist hospital personnel to sort patients based on their need if there is an influx of patients.
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SSGT John J. Sanchez crosses a stream on a rope bridge with the assistance of Special Forces detachment commander CPT Kevin R. Krebs during exercise Brim Frost '81. The men are Green Berets from Co. C, 2nd Bn., 7th Special Forces. Subject Operation/Series: BRIM FROST '81 Base: Clear Creek State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Volunteers participate in the Wreaths Across America annual removal of wreaths, commonly known as Wreaths Out, in Section 60 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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A hunter's legs and rifle in the snow
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Russian support personnel work around the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft shortly after it landed with Expedition 53 Commander Randy Bresnik of NASA and Flight Engineers Paolo Nespoli of ESA (European Space Agency) and Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian space agency Roscosmos near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017. Bresnik, Nespoli and Ryazanskiy are returning after 139 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 52 and 53 crews onboard the International Space Station.
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A coalition soldier secures an area during a dismounted patrol in Muqer district, Ghazni province, Afghanistan, Jan. 29. Soldiers from Civil Affairs and Provincial Reconstruction Team conducted the dismounted patrol to engage elders and key leaders in the area.
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A view of an M426 dry span bridge in place during exercise BRIM FROST '83. Subject Operation/Series: BRIM FROST '83 Base: Fort Wainwright State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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040206-M-8205V-019. Subject Operation/Series: FOREST LIGHT 2004 Base: Ojojibara State: Sendai Country: Japan (JPN)
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Military supporters thank Soldiers from 10th Mountain Division, Soldiers stationed throughout Colorado and Norwegian service members after a serpentine ski down in Vail, Colorado, Feb. 25, 2024. The ski down was part of the 10th Mountain Divisions legacy weekend in remembrance of 990 Soldiers who gave their lives on the WWII battlefields of Italy and the Aleutian Islands. Army
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U.S. Army Soldiers with the 4th Battalion, 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) conduct walks at The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery, Va. on Martin Luther King Jr Day, Jan. 15, 2024. Martin Luther King Jr Day is a federal holiday in the United States that takes place on the third Monday in January. It honors the life and legacy of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
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240125-N-LR905-2042LITTLE FALLS, Minn. (Jan. 25, 2024) - U.S. Navy Divers assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 2 prepare to dive in simulated arctic waters 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.
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Russian support personnel wait outside the medical tent and all terrain vehicles (ATVs) after the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft 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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Bart Hinkle (left) and Greg Hayden, both bomb technicians with the Valdez Police Department assemble X-ray bomb kit equipment in order to inspect suspicious materials detected by Alyeska Pipeline personnel performing pipeline security checks in Valdez, Alaska, during a civilian and military mass causality exercise hosted by the Alaskan Command, in support of exercise NORTHERN EDGE 2002. Bart Hinkle (left) and Greg Hayden, both bomb technicians with the Valdez Police Department assemble X-ray bomb kit equipment in order to inspect suspicious materials detected by Alyeska Pipeline personnel performing pipeline security checks in Valdez, Alaska, during a civilian and military mass causality exercise hosted by the Alaskan Command, in support of exercise NORTHERN EDGE 2002.
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Army troops are aboard a CH-47 Chinook helicopter before take-off during Exercise Jack Frost '75. Subject Operation/Series: JACK FROST '75 Base: Eielson Air Force Base State: Alaska (AK) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Training operations are shown at Fort McCoy, Wis., on Jan. 18, 2024. During January 2024, thousands of troops trained at Fort McCoy to start off 2024.
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Snow falls in Section 59 of Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Jan. 3, 2022. This was the first snow of the year.
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Airmen with Joint Task Force-Nome meet with community members during Operation Merbok Response, Sept. 21, 2022. More than 130 members of the Alaska Organized Militia, which includes members of the Alaska National Guard, Alaska State Defense Force and Alaska Naval Militia, were activated following a disaster declaration issued Sept. 17 after the remnants of Typhoon Merbok caused dramatic flooding across more than 1,000 miles of Alaskan coastline. (Alaska Army National Guard photo by Pfc. Bradford Jackson)
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Russian Search and Rescue teams arrive at the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft shortly after it landed with Expedition 53 Commander Randy Bresnik of NASA and Flight Engineers Paolo Nespoli of ESA (European Space Agency) and Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian space agency Roscosmos near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017. Bresnik, Nespoli and Ryazanskiy are returning after 139 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 52 and 53 crews onboard the International Space Station.
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Italian Army paratroopers assigned to 4th Alpini Regiment, Folgore Brigade and U.S. Army paratroopers assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade, conduct an airborne operation from a Italian Air Force, 46th Air Brigade, C-27J Spartan onto Alpe di Siusi in Bolzano, Italy, Feb. 16, 2023. The 173rd Airborne Brigade is the U.S. Army Contingency Response Force in Europe, capable of projecting ready forces anywhere in the U.S. European, Africa or Central Commands' areas of responsibility.
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A Medic assigned to the 148th Fighter Wing, Minnesota Air National Guard completes 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.
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Firefighters wearing cold-water immersion protective suits hold surface ice rescue training Jan. 11, 2023, at Big Sandy Lake at Fort McCoy, Wis., for members of the Fort McCoy Directorate of Emergency Services Fire Department. The training was done in conjunction with ice rescue training for the department's dive team where a simulated underwater victim was also rescued by a diver. The Fort McCoy Directorate of Emergency Services Fire Department is among only a small number of military fire departments with a dive team and ice rescue capabilities.
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Italian Army paratroopers assigned to 4th Alpini Regiment, Folgore Brigade and U.S. Army paratroopers assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade, conduct an airborne operation from a Italian Air Force, 46th Air Brigade, C-27J Spartan onto Alpe di Siusi in Bolzano, Italy, Feb. 16, 2023. The 173rd Airborne Brigade is the U.S. Army Contingency Response Force in Europe, capable of projecting ready forces anywhere in the U.S. European, Africa or Central Commands' areas of responsibility.
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Russian soldier in winter uniform
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An eagle flies overhead while 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 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.
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winter duck hunter in waders pulling decoys to his canoe on rive
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ARCTIC CIRCLE (March 13, 2016) Ice Camp Sargo, located in the Arctic Circle, serves as the main stage for Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2016 and will house more than 200 participants from four nations over the course of the exercise. 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.
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ZKH Prince Claus visiting Mariniers during their winter training in Norway in 1980.
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U.S. Marines with 2d Combat Engineer Battalion, 2d Marine Division, set up barriers during a volunteer event in Setermoen, Norway, April 1, 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. During their deployment, Marines had the opportunity to help set up and support a cross country ski race in Norway.
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