POTD: Ubung Eiskristall 2018
The Mountaineering Brigade 23 “Bavaria“, which is specialized in infantry fighting in difficult to extreme terrain. They operate at high altitudes and under harsh climatic and weather conditions and is stationed in five locations in southern Bavaria with 5,300 soldiers.
The brigade has some unique range of tasks in the German Army and therefore also get some special training and equipment, like army mountain guides, pack animals, snowmobiles and high mountain ranges.
This time they are far away from home, training under extreme climatic and terrain conditions north of the Arctic Circle. The country is Norway, an ally of NATO.
Übung Eiskristal translates into Exercise Ice Crystal. I guess the name is revealing, and the aim of the exercise is to train the soldiers in winter conditions and to practice tactical procedures.
The first days our soldiers in Norway have passed. In Skjold, military training area Mauken prepare the high mountain hunter trains, the high mountain platoon, and other specialists of the Mountaineering Brigade 23 at currently -13 ° Celsius for a few days and nights outside: Bivouac!
It would be interesting to know how well the HK G36 keeps up in a prolonged arctic climate when it becomes dirty and used over some time with limited possibilities to clean and maintain it.
All photos by Bundeswehr / Mario Bähr.
Ex-Arctic Ranger. Competitive practical shooter and hunter with a European focus. Always ready to increase my collection of modern semi-automatics, optics, thermals and suppressors. TCCC Certified. Occasionaly seen in a 6x6 Bug Out Vehicle, always with a big smile.
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instead they should teach these guys how to fight in the muslim fundamentalist no go zones that have been allowed to spring up all over germany
one day probably sooner rather than later the islamic adherents are going to do the math and reach the inevitable conclusion that they indeed have finally attained the manpower willpower and firepower to make a serious go of it to take on and ultimately collapse the nation of germany from within
thats where the fight will be
thats where the most treacherous and inhospitable conditions will be:
in the cities
not in the mountains
it will be an existential fight
they would do well to send their highest and best for this one...because its going to require wall of heroes of the fatherland type stuff
"Vhee kantz hitz aannyting!"