We do and you’ll note that the article didn’t specify which US troops partipated in this exercise. If it was troops stationed in Alaska then it’s bad, if it was troops stationed in Missouri then it’s understandable.
You also have to remember that the US expects to lose during exercises, especially when engaging subject matter experts like the Finns in the Arctic.
Well the Finnish troops were also reservists, so not some top of the line troops
E: read more from Finnish sources, it was actually proper in North Finland served guys. Reservist could mean anything but these weren’t some coastal boys from down south
I’ve got my dad’s old winter wear army jacket from when he was in the reserves. I can Donald Duck with that thing on and nothing else outdoors at 20°F/-6°C and be comfortable. It is toasty as fuck. So like, the US military used to know how to deal with cold.
They still do. Military exercises are not about determining which side is better. It’s about learning things, practicing things, simulating things, etc. Often times one side will fail and then the exercise will continue on as if they succeeded, because, again, the point is not to score wins and loses. It’s fact-finding. It’s training.
It’s kind of like of the F35 loses in dogfights to older planes whenever they test that scenario. If the F35 is in a dogfight in real life, a completely unrealistic number of things have lined up and gone wrong for that pilot. In real life the F35 would just shoot the older planes out of the sky from the other side of the horizon.
Don’t they have any military bases in Alaska?
We do and you’ll note that the article didn’t specify which US troops partipated in this exercise. If it was troops stationed in Alaska then it’s bad, if it was troops stationed in Missouri then it’s understandable.
You also have to remember that the US expects to lose during exercises, especially when engaging subject matter experts like the Finns in the Arctic.
This is how they learn and get better.
Well the Finnish troops were also reservists, so not some top of the line troops
E: read more from Finnish sources, it was actually proper in North Finland served guys. Reservist could mean anything but these weren’t some coastal boys from down south
I’ve got my dad’s old winter wear army jacket from when he was in the reserves. I can Donald Duck with that thing on and nothing else outdoors at 20°F/-6°C and be comfortable. It is toasty as fuck. So like, the US military used to know how to deal with cold.
-6° is not cold in the grand scheme of cold. That’s fair weather in that region. Early autuum.
yeah but i ain’t donald ducked colder. can’t speak to it.
They still do. Military exercises are not about determining which side is better. It’s about learning things, practicing things, simulating things, etc. Often times one side will fail and then the exercise will continue on as if they succeeded, because, again, the point is not to score wins and loses. It’s fact-finding. It’s training.
It’s kind of like of the F35 loses in dogfights to older planes whenever they test that scenario. If the F35 is in a dogfight in real life, a completely unrealistic number of things have lined up and gone wrong for that pilot. In real life the F35 would just shoot the older planes out of the sky from the other side of the horizon.
I bet they stay home a lot. It’s cold.