U.S. Soldiers to Train Arctic Warfare in Lapland, UK Servicemen in Estonia

Together with the Jaeger Brigade in Sodankylä, the American soldiers will exercise tactical interoperability in the coldest wilderness of northern Europe. Darkness, deep snow, and extreme survival challenges in temperatures that can drop below -30 degrees Celsius. Add a fall in an ice lake and you have the flavor of what the U.S. soldiers will learn as the bilateral exercise involving up to 290 personnel kicks off on February 6.     The specialists in Arctic training from the Jaeger Brigade will instruct the participants in survival skills in winter conditions, combat techniques and sustainment of operating capability, the Army…