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| Trump's Greenland bases could change Arctic defense. I learned why at 76 below zero |
| 2026-09-28 |
| [FOX] I spent four years as an Army infantry officer in Alaska, where our operational responsibilities stretched from Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Ocean to the Aleutian Islands reaching toward Russia. During Exercise Brim Frost ’89, some 26,000 American and Canadian troops took the field, and I served as a brigade operations officer. As we maneuvered across Alaska’s interior, temperatures plunged as low as 76 degrees below zero. The exercise produced more than 250 cold-weather injuries, including 88 cases of frostbite. At those temperatures, fuel systems become unreliable, batteries lose power, lubricants thicken, and weapons and vehicles can fail in ways soldiers from warmer climates rarely encounter. And no, a week on the slopes at Vail does not prepare anyone for that. The Arctic punishes amateurs. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |