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Charlie Battery, 120th Field Artillery Regiment, 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Wisconsin National Guard, responded to a simulated chemical response event at Camp Grayling, Mich. Jan. 25, 2022.
Charlie Battery, 120th Field Artillery Regiment, 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Wisconsin National Guard, responded to a simulated chemical response event at Camp Grayling, Mich. Jan. 25, 2022.

U.S. Army National Guard photo by Capt. Joe Legros

  • At an Arctic training exercise in Alaska, soldiers maneuvered artillery over difficult terrain.
  • The process required a kind of "graceful dance" between communication, timing, and coordination, troops said.
  • The temperature, weather, and ground conditions in the Arctic make artillery ops there tougher than in other places.

Deep in the Arctic, US troops are training to conduct difficult and high-stress artillery operations in challenging cold-weather conditions.

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Military & Defense, Defense, Alaska, arctic, us-army, Army
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US soldiers say running high-stress artillery ops deep in the ever-changing Arc…