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5,000 troops train for winter war in Arctic Norway

7 March 20187 March 2018 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments Brigade North, Joint Reindeer, NATO, Netherlands, Norway Army, Norwegian Home Defense, Royal Netherlands Marine Corps (RNLMC), Russia, Troms County, U.S. Marines, United States

It is named Joint Reindeer and is unfolding in parts of northern Norway this week. The exercise is this year’s

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U.S. Marines jump into freezing Finnmark water

23 February 2016 Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments Cold Response 2016, Finnmark, military, Norway, U.S. Marines

Some 200 Marines from the U.S. Marine Corps lined up on the ice waiting for their coldest experience ever; jumping

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