Arctic Warriors
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2017
- Deep in the heart of the Alaskan Mountain Range, members of the Northern Warfare Training Center give Soldiers the skills they need to thrive in one of the nation's most challenging environments.
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I served in the Finnish military during the turn of the millennium.
One thing everyone learns very quickly is never to make the mistake of complaining out loud within an earshot of an instructor that it's cold. He has ways of keeping everybody warm!
The only environment where UCP actually works decently 🤣
I was stationed at Fort Wainwright, north of the location in the video, and yes UCP actually works pretty well in the winter! And in the summer when it rains, UCP blends in with the forest when it's soaking wet 😉
I was gonna say, it actually blends in the the snow covered evergreens and dead brush somewhat well.
I mean, does it really?💀
yea 4:09 it does blend into the snowy woodland area pretty well
You got to be born in the cold to understand the cold. Good luck to those who don't understand the coldness.
Very true, the same is true for the mountains.
True the cold climate is simply the most brutal place to possibly fight and live in.
@@banger2998 well extreme heat is no joke either but I'm from cold region
Mr Gritty cold regions are much more brutal
@@banger2998 yah I know haha been freezing my butt over here
As a local, who grew up near here, camping, climbing, and skiing, it's so bizarre to think these skills need to be taught, granted most Alaskans don't know how to ski an winter camp either. I love camping out in the snow and crisp mountain air every winter and hope these soldiers are finding a bit of that same love for the Alaskan wilderness man
I was thinking the same thing!
Well it's like I'm sure you don't know how to noodle for catfish or wade through a swamp like guys like me do here in Alabama. It's all up to our environment.
Funny, when I did my military service the coming of the snow actually made it easier. Skiing and dragging a sledge is easier and faster than walking and carrying stuff on your back. The autumn was cold, wet and pitch black. With snow it got lighter and dryer. Plus, you had access to water all the time by melting snow (mind you, in autumn you could just pick some moss up from the ground and squeeze water from it).
I guess the US, being an imperial army, compares this winter training with their training further south. But if they had been a defensive army, training in the same place all year round, they would have known to appreciate the snow.
If they had been a defensive army training in the same place all year round, they won’t have experience fighting in every clime and terrain.
lol actually you DONT have water. without fire there's no way to melt the snow. and it's a large assumption that you'll always just be able to make a fire
America is a big place with people coming from very different climates. They are many Americans who have never even seen snow. Even if it was a "defensive force" it would still have to train soldiers in a variety of different climates
@@dynamo3059 We had personal field kitchens. We also had a stove in our tent. This is really necessary if you are living as light infantry for extended periods of time to dry clothes and such, especially when you have low temperatures like -30. So you melted water during the night when you were fire guard and filled up your thermos and water bottle for the next day.
I guess you can melt water with your bodyheat by keeping it under your clothes maybe.
@@suspicioususer My point was that USA moves troops around to get "winter training" and "desert training" and the like. So their point of reference is skewed. If they had been defensive, the troops defending Arizona would compare desert in summer with desert in winter. And the troops of North Dakota would compare snow with no snow in the same climate. It was just surprising to me how the video presented snow as something neagative when my experience was that the coming of the snow made things easier.
Mind you, with modern imaging technology, I do not know what light infantry service looks like in the arctic. I recon that with heat cameras being so abundant camouflage and keeping a low profile might have become meaningless?
“Alaska is the most strategic place on earth,” Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell. Along with looking absolutely badass fighting in the snow, these boys and girls are laying important groundwork for the ftuture
"The main thing we're trying to teach here is"
Don't invade Russia in the winter but if you are gonna do it, use your old UCP uniform.
We’re got Multicam Alpine over-whites for that now.
This comment didn’t age well
@@rockymoreno1318 to be fair this time its Russia invading in winter
You guys are the real Hero's! God bless you all.
Who is the best mountain army in the world?
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Stationed in Alaska for five Winters, Arctic Paratrooper. Went to NWTC. "We conquer mountains and battle the cold."
Got a 6 year infantry contract with airborne and preferred duty station alaska, I'm from Florida wish me luck
You'll be fine. Dress in layers and remember the real state bird is the mosquito. Bug repellant is needed after the thaw. Good luck!
Get in the 1/501 PIR
Thank you for your Military service and the video.
Spent 5 years in Korea -51 when I got there, after returning to the states I was to go to Alaska for cold weather training, took 45 minutes to stop laughing at my Lt...😂😂😂😂
The only cold weather I ever attended while in the Army. Black Rapids ain't no joke. Looking back I hated the sn.ow shoes march
Being Born in NYC & raised in NYC, playing football, worked overnight sanitation for 5 years. I’ve experienced damn near every condition Mother Nature has to offer. But the worst is a Artic Blast. Carhartt has held me down my entire life. It’s my dream to experience Alaska good bad and ugly winter season
That looks so fun! 💯
I was at Wainwright 1991-95. Was part of the 6ID de-activation and switch to training detachment.
I was at Ft Rich at this time.
During World War II Allied soldiers had an advantage, it was the Zippo lighter, you could always start a fire the Germans didn't have that and a lot of them froze because of it, during Korea, temperatures drop 50 Below Zero, more men died from frostbite, then the enemy combatant, in the coldest environments you must learn how to survive and use the trees oh, you can use pine trees for camouflage against thermal, you also can use those pine trees to build shelters and start fires this is the worst one
4:59 She really had the chance to say "cool" and didn't?
Well that would be a lie as it’s very tiring, but it is essential if you wanna be the best soldier you can be
Great knowledge !! ☝️☝️
I learn so much !! 👍🇺🇸
The North remembers, winter is coming.
Marines were traditionally a tropical service. My experience had been Vietnam and Panama. But after the first 2 days freezing in this place, I strongly considered going the sickbay commando route. To join the ranks of the elite sickbay commandos.
I can only imagine what would happen if Canada let you guys do some training near Alert, Nunavut.
I hope there would be some Canadians around to help them out.
they do.....im in the National guard and they sent a guy from my unit to do some cold weather training up in canada
ARTIC JESUS DUDE @0:42!!!! Long live my dude🍺
Fort wainwright here I come!
The UCP knee pads, elbow pads and body armor seem to be the best for snow warfare
Surprising to hear them use an actual Finnish word "Ahkio" when talking about toboggans
Colorado was cold but nowhere as cold as this.. would be some great training to have had though...
I’ve got no clue about the school but I’ve heard everyone hates being station in Alaska.
I fucking love snowboarding and have done a ton of winter camping. Alaska is on my bucket list of places to rough it..just never skied before lol I’d love to be involved in this kind of training🇺🇸
Artic Warriors, "Frozen Death From above".
1:45 look at Sgt Derrick zoolanders hair! Even got the pomade in there.
wow ! ucp works so good at snow enviroments , wish the army could keep using this pattern for cold weather, is simply better than ocp at winter
Thank you for your service. For some reason I kinda prefer cold weather. I like weather around 20-30 degrees or so, but I admit this place is pretty damn freezing.
I like cold weather too (5-15F) but Alaska gets to -30F, that’s colder than we could imagine lol
Strange the 10 Mountain Division doesn’t have to go to the NWTC OR the Mountain course to be a part of that division. Stranger still that they are stationed in New York, and not Colorado or Alaska. Oh well.
True. 10th Mountain Division soldiers don't go to the Northern Warfare Training Center or the Army Mountain Warfare School. I think 10th soldiers should attend either of these schools due to their nature as a mountain division.
@John Mattew The Army Mountain Warfare School is good too. Its run by Vermont National Guard 86th Infantry Brigade.
@John Mattew yeah the 10th Mountain Division is classified as a light infantry unit.
@John Mattew Keep pushing and then try to attend AMWS or NWTC if possible. Personally I think all 10th Mountain Division soldiers should attend these courses bcoz of their nature.
Much like the 101st "Airborne", the 10th "Mountain" lives on only in name for traditional purposes. The only real conventional infantry now excluding airborne, that has any specialized training is the 25th infantry in Hawaii who focus heavily on jungle operations, and in Alaska where we obviously are arctic warfare focused.
You guys made me want to do this again.... LMAO
The U.S. Army...if it were possible to serve the U.S. Army eternally,I definitely would sign-up.! Long live the spirit of the United States Army,HOOOOOOAAAAAH PEOPLE!!!
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@@arighteousname5882 bro your life is pathetic, do everyone a favor and give up
US soldiers should start vacationing in Aspen Colorado and Parkcity UT in the meanwhile
I was in the 10th Special Forces Group in the 90's. We were a cold weather unit. Skis, snowshoes, and snow machines. When we went to ski training each year, it was at a ski resort somewhere. We went to Stowe, Vermont one year.
@@marvintyson I don't know what it was like back then. But today in age, I hear folks are getting some pretty bad weather up there. This whole global warming is doing funny things all over the place.
You're probably done with your services ( thank you ). Maybe Alpine and Park City may not be the right place to practice. But, Alaska might still be. Try Valdes or Wittier. They still get pumbbled.
Try Army Mountain Warfare School at Vermont.
Can you splitboard instead?
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Make sure you don't carry Bic lighters out there, Carrie Zippos the Bic lighter in cold temperatures the valve closes and will not light, during World War II in your ration kit you had a Zippo lighter and you had matches that could get wet and if you dry the match in the board you can use it
What MOSs can go to this type of school?
During the Korean War, your equipment would freeze up oh, and some creative Soldier decided to piss on his rifle, and it worked
Really 😂
@@whitebenrr urban legend.
I got my arctic patch the polar bear with bloody fangs under the big dipper. The arctic circle is more dangerous to someone than Iraq was in 2008 but y'all really have it easy we did 2 weeks inside the arctic circle.
Could u share the Cold Tech Weather Gear???
You can buy old ECWCS GEN 3 uniform layers at surplus stores and on Ebay.
Arctic is easy compared to working in wet conditions. Wet in the jungle or temperate climates are a nightmare. Critters, infections, unclean drinking water and the possibility of hypothermia make tundra warfare a bit more manageable. Has anyone trained in both? What's your thoughts?
I was stationed in Alaska, and also trained in jungle operations at the US Army Jungle school, and Australian jungle school. Both are challenging in very different ways. But fighting in the arctic is an absolute nightmare. Cold vs wet is one argument, but arctic cold is completely different. Nothing compares to it.
@@philliphampton5183 I have never served and have not been to an arctic or jungle environment properly. But just to debate, wouldn't lying on a cold floor, avoiding diseases, wearing good clothes with water all around you be much easier than jungle warfare?? Like blatantly so? Diseases, humidity, clostrophobia, animals and being wet all the time sound far worse than snow. Or is it literally being cold all the time that make things unbearable?
@@tubefreakmuva I'd tend to agree with you if it was just a cold snowy environment say 20 degrees etc. Normal winter conditions. But in Arctic temperatures, the air itself can kill you. We're talking about temperatures where if you touch metal without gloves on, you get instant contact frostbite. Jungle is all about minimalism. Bring as little as possible, wear as little as possible. In the Arctic you can never have enough, and theres no vehicles helping you out so its logistically a nightmare. You have to carry it, and drag it in sleds, including extra things such as fuel, stove, and shelter along with all the tools necessary such as axes and hammers. Fighting is extremely physical which is why fitness standards and hard training of the body is important. So fighting in the arctic, in deep snow, with longer ranges (Jungle is very close quarters) on snow shoes or skis you work up quite a sweat, which in those temps is life threatening in and of itself. Operations can continue after dark in the arctic, and its very difficult to hide. At night in true jungle its so dark even NVG's are useless so theres honestly lots of rest, and its very easy to lay low. Weapons don't work nearly as well in the arctic and due to them being metal, maintaining them is difficult. At 30 below, no matter what you wear, you will be cold even if you wear everything you brought which would cause you to overheat anyways so you can't do it. You're freezing cold at all times. And theres no escape from it. Completely at mother natures mercy.
@@philliphampton5183 Thankyou so much for that feedback, it is a bit more full on than I imagined. Sounds like a nightmare!
@@philliphampton5183 yeah when you're fighting in -50c if can be hard. Frostbite in minutes on exposed skin
want cold go to Aberdeen,MD in December with a 40 mph wind and be on night watch at the Museum might not be alaska but its dam cold
You know there's wind in Alaska right? I've lived near Aberdeen. Not comparable.
@@philliphampton5183 did you read my entire comment I strictly said its not as cold as Alaska
I actually think this is probably one of the most useful training for the U.S. Army. Anyone know if there is one for marines? I just like to to know being in the service myself.
Mountain Warfare at 29 Palms
I know some army schools are available to other branches but I’m not sure about this one
I spent 18 months at fort Richardson,I think I’d rather have my parka and fur trimmed hood and field pants with liners ,than the gear you have, I got to teach cold weather indoctrination and skiing in our company,back in 1973 , skied or snowshoes every day for pt in the winter, and if that wasn’t enough we’d check out cross country skis at the service club or go up to arctic valley ski bowl for down hill skiing on the weekends . You still have VB boots and if you can ski on army skis you can ski . Didn’t care for the month of mountain training up at the Eklutna glacier,skiing was my thing ,do you teach them skijoring?
What kind of tent are they using at 3:39? It seems to have a wood stove or something.
We just called them ten man tents. The stove runs off JP8 diesel fuel. VERY cramped with a whole squad plus your gear
@@soldier2519 When I drove Top in 83 at Ft Carson, he, the maint SSG and I used one, plenty of room for three cot's and stove, much better than the rest of the line doggies in pup tent's I'll tell ya!
Ive heard em called arctic ovens most of the time. There are kinds that burn wood if you got some dry wood but theres a coupple fuels that are used for em. with more than 5 people inside that helps heat it up a bunch too. they is pretty fancy tho, i always thought the rich hunters used them. but hey, if you got it, use it
Ahkio tent.
Top 4 treacherous terrains every soldier needs to know!:
A. The Jungle
B.The Desert
C.The Artic
D.The Sea
Urban warfare is their best area now. US infantry divisions spend more time training in this area than all enemy forces combined. But the US force has spent 40 years in the Sandbox. Ignoring any regard for future tropical action.
The givers of life should never be the takers of life.
A women’s sacred duty is to rebuild civilization after the madness of men has destroyed. All that is good and righteous.
1:35 Is that a UCP camo? It does not blend in with anything.
ACU’s can suck my dick. Thank god we got the multi cam.
They should be given white color snow jackets to provide camoflouge.
@@swann3482 I am not sure too.
@@nikolassmithers4870 everyone got OCP, which is to multicam what M81 is to ERDL
What are the chances I can get a slot as a Air Guardsmen?
I would do this before I'd do jungle training: no snakes and no bizarre insects.
I dont think many of my Aussie compatriots are taught this stuff. Maybe some SF if they're going overseas, but that's all. I imagine the guys who went to high altitude in Afghansitan in winter had a very rude shock.
Black Diamonds equipment 😏 hell yeah
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Im from minnesota i'll be fine
I am essential
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I’m born in Minnesota and cold weather doesn’t bother me can you join the military and just go to cold places and ride snowmobiles?
God bless America 😘🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
can you snowboard instead of ski
cold is my favorite extreme climate to be in. there's really not that much you need to know. once you know it though you can just keep doing what you need to do.
jungle on the other hand or heat and rough seas etc etc, its all got all sorts of unpredictable shit going on there.
Understandable, but i'd much rather be in the Heat despite being born in a rather cold part of the US, a desert for example is far easier to live in assuming you have a good supply chain and won't run out of food and water. Because if you don't exert yourself and overheat yourself the heat will become of minimal harm. As compared to Arctic warfare where even if you have food, and water, and don't overheat yourself you can still die because the environment is actively trying to freeze you to death. Jungles on the other hand as can be seen from the Vietnam war are by far the worst place to be in terms of a conflict.
@@aurilius8145 desert is actively trying to heat you to death. there are literally thousands of dead bodies in the arizona desert from people trying to cross the border. agreed though jungle is the worst because you have living things trying to kill you. and transmit diseases to you.
Cold weather is the best. Stay dry and warm and you’ll do alright. The key is knowing how to make fire. If you can do that, you can have heat, a dryer for wet clothes, a way to make water and cook food.
@@dynamo3059 owned lmao
Yeah jungle is one of the worst. That's why the US military should train more in it. Unfortunately the US military only has 2 jungle warfare schools. One is the Jungle Operations Training Center in Hawaii. The other 1 is a Marine Corps jungle training center in Japan. They should have at least 1 or 2 more jungle warfare schools to train soldiers to fight in jungles, especially spec ops.
[insert screaming salute meme here]
I wanna know how to become the instructor
For sure u have to attend their cold-weather orientation course, cold-weather leader's course and train in it with US Army Alaska for few years to be experienced in it. And maybe attend some instructor certification course or evaluated to become an instructor.
I lived this for years. There's several different courses. There's Arctic Survival is what everyone who gets stationed there goes then different warrior classes depending on your tier of operations.
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god bless america & all the money spent on the army
Need for soldiers in alaska like maybe 200k. Chinese presence in the arctic could be the real beginning of fallout. And I don't mean the video game
I agree
"Winter War" also called "First Soviet-Finnish War"
Usa army yea
UCP actually working
I think Army Rangers should attend this course too so that they have the ability to fight in cold-weather mountainous terrains. Imagine if they need to conduct a HVT raid on a mountain terrain, and they are not prepared or trained then it's gonna be a trouble. So far there are only 5 such schools in the US military. Army Mountain Warfare School, Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, Mountain Warfare Training Camp Michael Monsoor, Northern Warfare Training Center and the Special Forces Advanced Mountain Operations School.
Are you a ranger? Did they never send you to Alaska?
@@orion3253 No I'm not. What I do know is that a couple of Rangers attend the cold-weather operations course (cwoc) at Fort McCoy every winter season. About how many such schools are there, I was wrong, I hare counted about 8, the 5 mentioned + Cold-Weather Operations Course at Fort McCoy, NSW Cold Weather Detachment Kodiak at Kodiak Base and Air Force Arctic Survival School (more of a cold-weather survival school rather than a cold-weather warfare/combat school).
how do you attend this school?
Yea im wondering the same thing
Join the military
Get stationed at fort Wainwright.
Join army
Request seat in the northern warfare training school
Get accepted
Start training
@paul revereyea maybe if you want to attend leadership school, otherwise its BMMC first smart guy
Is UCP using now?
These schools were intense, its way worse when you have to stay in Alaska after the schools and be a full time Arctic Warrior. That was the hardest place on earth to be a soldier. A lot of troops ate their rifles on the qualification and other ranges. They would make us stay in the foxhole freezing until they covered up the body and bits.
Well definitely good to train the soldiers in cold-weather warfare, which is very cold and of course brutal. Imagine if soldiers need to fight in Arctic or other cold-weather areas like lets say himalayas etc.
Bushcraft is Key.
Yo screw those arctic tents and their stoves! I never trusted that setup. I much preferred snow caves
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Must be hard having a tent with a stove. Try living in it for 30 days without one.
I was the first viewer
Wow
Hooah, looks fun! 💯
Help need necromorphy help. At my grandparents. IDK but everything crazy inside me. IDK about my room colorful.
I want to get deployed to the Arctic sadly the chances are low for me
Why ?
@@elyisumtempester3732 Sorry for the long answer, but I believe that the cold is the great equalizer in combat it turns what would be a high speed solider or marine into a guy struggling to pull on the trigger. It would turn the importance on vehicles to a maximum and I think that America still has the breath in it to go back to the powerhouse of manufacturing that it was in world war 2. In a non combat scenario I just think that learning to fight in the cold would be useful. Deploying there long term would help you learn it much for than just going there for a school and I think that we need to learn how to fight in the cold. We have already fought in the heat of the middle east and now I think Russia could be our new enemy. If Russia would lead a invasion anywhere on the U.S (assuming it isn't just a proxy war) I think it would be on Alaska. So yes if i could deploy anywhere I would like to go anywhere in the Arctic because the more soldiers or marines we have that know how to fight in that landscape the better equipped we are to defend or lead an invasion in that weather.
@@qbumf yes so true any country smart enough would start from Alaska, but what I was trying to get at is why do you think the chances are low for you to get into artic warfare for the marines, also are you currently serving ?
@@elyisumtempester3732 I am not currently serving, but I will join when I complete high school. I think my chances are low to get in arctic warfare because they aren’t going to accept everyone that wants to go and I’m sure many marines will want to go.
I guess you could say that's pretty 'cool'? :P
Who is the best mountain army in the world? Which is Highest battle ground in the world? - 60 degrees weather
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4:30 dah fuck did he think the army dose
I am From Russia, I think this is fort drum, I live in cold cauntry I know English very well, I wonn'a be a soldiers in u. s. Army
y though?
It's not in Fort Drum. Fort Drum is home of the 10th Mountain Division which is in New York. This is Cold Weather Leader's Course (CWLC) taught by Northern Warfare Training Center (NWTC) part of US Army Alaska (USARAK) in Alaska.
@Ivan Moreno cuz he likes US Army I guess better than his own national army. In fact I love the US military more than my country's own.
@Ivan Moreno Malaysia
Who is the best mountain army in the world?⛰️🗻 Please comment
Ahkio, Finnish word. After ww2 winter war veterans teached you. How to..
We are fighting in the that type of environment. It’s called Afghanistan. Jeez.
The Russians are probably laughing at y'all. There saying "Aw look at the cute Americans, at least they try."
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I would like to see our soldiers take these things with a more serious tone, instead of smiling and giggling like little school girls. Y'all better get with it because our enemies are DEAD SERIOUS!
You guys been playin in sandy land for the past 19 years. Figure it's time to have your blood on snow than sand huh?
The army should start recruiting from stoner climbers and skiers, they voluntarily do this every year lol
Too many chicks
Lmao good luck 🤣🤣🤣
Man when scientists started talking about life evolving and there aint a god then what am i to think about serving for god and country? Or the oath your sworn in on? Kinda makes me think about it, got respect for military but is someone else being lied to here because of religion again? I remember that chic listenin to vanity 6 by the army/navy store but whats up with this subject? Life evolving is "scientific fact" and is "not debatable".
You don't deserve to say that mate
Slept in tents in Canadian Forces Base Valcartier in minus 47 degrees celsius. A female officer told us to shave in the morning. I had to correct her tactfully..never shaved.
Well, we did have religion through at least our last 100 000 years of evolution.. So not being religious is inhuman and unscientific.
You can take this to The Young Turks, Im sure someone on there will appreciate, what seems like your mental breakdown.
Not everyone biologist who believes in evolution is an Atheist.
New army probably does it in pretend snow while it’s 75 degrees. Y’all got soft.
Americans have a hard time in that region lmao, Russians are just like « emm basic day »