ANCHORAGE, Ak. — Cold weather endurance and survival training were recently canceled for a battalion of the 3d Cavalry Regiment due to a snowstorm that hit the Anchorage area.

“According to Army regulation AR dash … fuck I’m too cold to remember!” said Master Sgt. Floyd Smith, grandson of Korean War veteran Sgt. Roy Smith. “Anyway, we’re required to have a medic and a HMMWV out here, but our one medic is from Florida and slid off the road into a snowbank on the way to the training area.”

The Fort Hood-based unit is on a two-month rotation to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska to prepare for a possible deployment in support of operations against Russia in the vicinity of Siberia. The storm blanketed the encampment of soldiers on their first night in the field.

As the troops dug their way out of their tents by hand, they could be heard calling to each other in the mid-morning darkness.