Arctic warfare instructors offer advice for weathering polar temperatures

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 Arctic warfare instructors offer advice for weathering polar temperatures
 
February 02, 2019 Chad Garland - Stars and Stripes
 

A flat tire sidelined Maj. Chad Peltier’s vehicle in minus 22-degree weather recently as he was on his way to pick up his wife, but he knew exactly how to handle the situation.

“I take two lug nuts off, get back in the car (to warm up), take two lug nuts off, get back in the car,” said Peltier, who leads the Army’s cold-weather training center in Alaska. “It’s the longest tire change I’ve ever experienced, but I didn’t get a cold-weather injury.”

It’s no harrowing Arctic survival tale, but Peltier, commandant of the Fairbanks-based Northern Warfare Training Center, said in a phone interview that “surviving” the cold isn’t the point. “Thriving in that environment is what we’re really aiming for.”

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/02/arctic-warfare-instructors-offer-advice-for-weathering-polar-temperatures/