Sergeant Chavis Dowdy with the 11th Airborne Division of the US Army kicks off camouflage instruction for a handful of soldiers in a copse of birch up a snow-covered mountainside.

Here is how the U.S. Army equips and trains its soldiers for arctic conditions. ... "The snow came. The temperature dropped to 40 ... skiing, ahkio sleds, weather analysis, winter camouflage ...