Spartan Pegasus: Soldiers Leap into Arctic Tundra for Alaska Training Exercise

By Tactical-Life

There’s cold, and then there’s cold. This story fits into the latter category. A team of paratroopers with U.S. Army Alaska’s 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division jumped into Alaska’s tundra north of the Arctic Circle, braving minus 30 degree temperatures and a wind chill factor of minus 56 degrees during an exercise dubbed Exercise Spartan Pegasus 15 last week.

The soldiers’ mission during this training scenario was to find and recover a crashed satellite containing sensitive data and equipment which, if taken by the wrong people, could pose a threat to national security.

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Of course, since the satellite was simulated, the real goal of the exercise was “validate soldier mobility across frozen terrain,” which is “a key fundamental of U.S. Army Alaska’s capacity as the Army’s northernmost command,” the Army says.

150 soldiers participated in Exercise Spartan Pegasus 15. The exercise took place more than 800 miles north from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, or JBER, Alaska. They arrived at their location in two Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft and two Alaska Air Guard C-130 Hercules aircraft. The jump was made from the aircraft at around 1,200 feet …Read the Rest

Source:: Tactical Life