Lt. Dan Sweeney (middle), with 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation, demonstrates to Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno (left) and Maj. Gen. Michael Shields (right), U.S. Army Alaska commanding general, how to call for assistance when in the mountains of Alaska. Soldiers assigned to U.S. Army Alaska at the Northern Warfare Training Center teach Sweeney and other students mountaineering and cold-weather skills to help them be “Arctic Tough” and operate in the Army’s northernmost command. USARAK specializes in partnership and rapid deployment across the Pacific and boasts the Army’s premier high-altitude, extreme-cold-weather capability. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Mylinda DuRousseau, 1st SBCT Public Affairs)