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    U.S. Steps up Winter-Warfare Training As Global Threat Shifts

    U.S. Steps up Winter-Warfare Training As Global Threat Shifts

    As the GWOT winds down, the military is looking toward possible future threats. That includes cold weather training.

    Hunkered down behind a wall of snow, two U.S. Marines melt slush to make drinking water after spending the night digging out a defensive position high in the Sierra Nevada. Their laminated targeting map is wedged into the ice just below the machine gun.

    Nearly 8,000 feet (2,440 meters) up at a training center in the California mountains, the air is thin, the snow is chest high and the temperature is plunging. But other Marines just a few kilometers away are preparing to attack, and forces on both sides must be able to battle the enemy and the unforgiving environment.




    The exercise is designed to train troops for the next war — one the U.S. believes will be against a more capable, high-tech enemy like Russia, North Korea or China. The weather conditions on the mountain mimic the kind of frigid fight that forces could face in one of those future hotspots.


    “We haven’t had to deal with these things. We’ve been very focused on Iraq and Afghanistan,” said Maj. Gen. William F. Mullen, head of the Marines’ Training and Education Command. “What we really have to do is wake folks up, expose them to things that they haven’t had to think about for quite a while.”


    After 17 years of war against Taliban and al-Qaida-linked insurgents, the military is shifting its focus to better prepare for great-power competition with Russia and China, and against unpredictable foes such as North Korea and Iran. U.S. forces must be able to survive and fight while countering drones, sophisticated jamming equipment and other electronic and cyber warfare that can track them, disrupt communications and kill them — technology they didn’t routinely face over the last decade.
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    Of all the military schools and specialized training programs I attended over the years, I think the one that was most miserable in terms of physical discomfort (other than the Level C SERE Course) was CWI... Cold Weather Indoctrination at Camp Ripley Minnesota. It was worse than the Northern Warfare Training Center in Alaska, which was actually kind of enjoyable.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cletus View Post
    Of all the military schools and specialized training programs I attended over the years, I think the one that was most miserable in terms of physical discomfort (other than the Level C SERE Course) was CWI... Cold Weather Indoctrination at Camp Ripley Minnesota. It was worse than the Northern Warfare Training Center in Alaska, which was actually kind of enjoyable.
    We did winter training when I was in the 10th Mountain. It was fun. I did DMZ missions in Korea in the winter- they were not fun.
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    Winter training sucks.....but we do have to be able to operate in it. Although I do much better with Jungle or operating in very hot temps.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MMC View Post
    Winter training sucks.....but we do have to be able to operate in it. Although I do much better with Jungle or operating in very hot temps.
    I liked winter training and ops. Never did jungle training. Desert warfare, very much, thank you.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    I liked winter training and ops. Never did jungle training. Desert warfare, very much, thank you.
    Jungle training was pretty much phased out after the Sept 11th attack. Although we dropped the Jungle training camp in 99 after we gave Panama their land back.

    A lot of the exercises were on Counter Insurgency and waterborne operations. Internal Security too.
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