Originally Posted By: AKSAR
Brrrr! Norway Is Too Cold for British Troops

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“British officers have said that they do not want to train with large divisions in Porsanger, where the temperature drops to 25 degrees below zero,” said Lt. Col. Trond Thomassen, commander of Norway’s Allied Training Centre in Porsangmoen, told Norwegian-language Finnmarks Dagblad.

That’s minus 25 degrees Celsius, or minus 13 degrees Fahrenheit.

“The British have rules for health and safety,” Thomassen told Finnmarks Dagblad, whose article was translated by the English-language Norwegian paper The Local.
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The U.S. Army does not appear quite so delicate. The Army conducts Arctic training at the Northern Warfare Training Center at Fort Wainwright, near Fairbanks, Alaska.

“The winter temps in November to February average around minus 25 degrees Fahrenheit, with lows around minus 45. But minus 65 not uncommon,” an officer at the school told War is Boring. “We train our students throughout the winter outside.”


Interesting, since the Brits regularily come to Canada to train at CFB Suffield (outside Medicine Hat, Alberta). They've been coming for years. Even Prince Harry trained there a few years back with his chopter because it was good prep for Afgahnistan.