Josh Lederman is an NBC News correspondent.
ALTA, Norway — Nestled waist-high in Arctic snow miles away from civilization, U.S. Marines looked through binoculars from their machine-gun position toward the frozen ridge, watching for signs of enemy movement. Their battalion commander in this exercise, Lt. Col. Thomas Driscoll, approached the trench they dug by hand into the mountainside and asked what they needed. “More ammo,” one of them replied. In a nearby tent, fellow soldiers dried snow-saturated cammies over a gas stove.
As the truck-mounted rocket launcher hummed behind him, he recalled learning how to boil snow every morning and night for drinking water. “Here everything’s a little bit more scarce,” said Staehr, from Lancaster, South Carolina. “So you have to rely on yourself and on your team if you want to survive out in the Arctic climate.” As the U.S. and NATO allies hone their cold-weather skills, Moscow is watching.
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