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- Spartan Pegasus, as we call this mission,

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and it's training north of the Arctic Circle

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to work on our Arctic skills in

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the harshest environment you can find on Earth.

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^There's a lot of challenges operatin' at minus 30,

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^with wind chills that were in the mid,

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^minus 50 to minus 55 out there,

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^and so, one of our biggest challenges was to our equipment.

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You know, keeping our equipment operating

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in this kind of cold.

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There's no other place you can do it,

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you know, Arctic paratroopers, Arctic soldiers,

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have to be able to thrive in this environment.

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They can't just survive, they just can't

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jump out of a plane and huddle together and survive.

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You know, that's not what they're meant for.

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They've gotta go out there, they gotta conduct missions

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and operations in the harshest climate.

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That's what we're doin' here, we're learnin'

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about how to operate at sub-zero extreme cold weather.