Combat in Deep Snow and Extreme Cold 1950 US Army TF7 1550
Channel: Spartan Brigade
Date: 2020-12-16

This is a public domain training film from the National Archives demonstrating Arctic warfare techniques of the U.S. Army from 1950. 

Operating from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, “Spartan Brigade,” conducts airborne and Arctic training throughout Alaska.

As the only airborne infantry brigade combat team in the Arctic and Pacific regions, the paratroopers of the Spartan Brigade provide the combatant commander with the unique capability to project an expeditionary force by air into both tropical and Arctic conditions. 

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The US military maintains cold-weather and mountain warfare training centers at the Army Northern Warfare Training Center at Fort Wainwright, Fairbanks, Alaska, the Army Mountain Warfare School at Camp Ethan Allen, Jericho, Vermont, the Special Forces Command Mountaineering Warfare Training Detachment at Fort Carson, Colorado Springs, Colorado, the US Air Force Arctic Survival School at Eielson AFB, Alaska, and the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, in Bridgeport, California.