Army marches to greater heights
By Andy Stiny / Journal Staff Writer
Published: Saturday, October 23rd, 2021 at 6:02PM
Updated: Sunday, October 24th, 2021 at 12:02AM
As the nation has seen in past decades, the U.S. Army has to operate and fight in hostile environments in some of the world’s highest mountains.
To find out how this affects soldiers and who may be better adapted to operate at high altitude and how to protect them, 41 male and female soldiers from the 5th Engineer Battalion, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, spent several days at Taos Ski Valley this summer, hiking and living at 12,000 feet.
It was a joint study by the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM) in Natick, Massachusetts, and the University of New Mexico’s International Mountain Medicine Center.
https://www.abqjournal.com/2440011/army-marches-to-greater-heights-ex-taos-ski-valley-highaltitude-study-aims-to-show-effects-of-elevation-on-soldiers.html
