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Newly enlarged NATO starts drill in Finland, Norway and Sweden in defense of its Nordic turf (abcnews.go.com)

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More than 20,000 soldiers from 13 nations take part in drills lasting nearly two weeks in the northern regions of Finland, Norway and Sweden.

With over 4,000 Finnish soldiers taking part, the Norway-led Nordic Response 2024 represents the NATO newcomer's largest ever participation in a foreign exercise, according to Finland's military.

“For the first time, Finland will participate as a NATO member nation in exercising collective defense of the alliance’s regions,” the Finnish Defense Forces said in a statement.

The Swedish Armed Forces said about 4,500 personnel from its air force, army and navy would take part in the drill, which is being conducted in demanding Arctic winter conditions.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

-2°C or 28f in the northern Finland right now. That's about our average summer temperature.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Amen from Iceland. The average weather here is cold sideways rain 365.25 days per year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That’s actually not too bad. For some reason I was thinking the high would be around 10°F.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It is untypically warm for this time of the year. The soldiers got lucky comfort-wise but the cold also kind of was point of the excercise I believe

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Oh for sure. I think it was the US Army or maybe USAF who had an episode of Alaska Airport or Ice Airports or something where they did an episode of arctic survival training. Needless to say it was INTENSE.