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The Royal Marines have deployed hundreds of soldiers to the Norwegian Arctic Circle on ten weeks of intensive ski training, in preparation for duties and combat in Afghanistan.
This report and photos from Mail Online.
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Soldiers with 3 Commando Brigade are training in northern Norway where they are being taught extreme cold weather survival skills in up to six feet of snow ... Commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Oliver Lee described it as 'the toughest soldiering there is' ...
Some are veterans who are simply refreshing their skills, but for many it is their first time in Norway and their first experience on skis. |
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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The temperature in Innset dropped to -20c last week, with the added windchill taking it down even further to a low of -28c.
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So 5 or 6 degrees warmer than Hemsedal when my kids were skiing outside. Mind you my kids had a warm apartment to sleep in and had to be encouraged to carry their own skis instead of having a tent and a heavy pack. Maybe next time 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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''Cpl O'Connor, 36, who has spent 15 years with the unit, said: 'My first couple of winters he was here and he saw me do my first ice-breaking drill, which is when you cut a big hole in the ice and ski into it.''
That does not sound very clever. Blow that for a game of soldiers. When they advertise skiing in the recruitment literature this is not what you expect.
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Great post. Thanks.
Could have gone to the Beacons in these cash strapped times
And you'd think that they would have some post 1970 gear. Poor Fitzwilliams.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Great links thanks
One of the marines there is my nephew, can't recognise him though 
Able to keep up with his progress on facebook which is reassuring!!
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martyngb, good luck to your nephew and all his comrades wherever they may be serving.
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Ernst Goldsmith, thanks for that, puts all the silly squabbling on here in the right place.
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This is the british army we're talking about - hardly surprised they look like they were kitted out from the ski equivalent of the PE-kit-skank-box.
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