PHOTOS: 11th Airborne operates in freezing conditions in Alaska
During the Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center 26-02 rotation, the US Army's 11th Airborne Division emulates what an Arctic conflict would look like.
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“Armor and the Arctic don't necessarily match,” Cogbill said. “They're heavy. They would fall off the roads. They tumble down the side of a mountain. So we have to be light, highly mobile. It’s a matter of [having] just over the snow mobility.”
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