Iwate Maneuvering Ground, Japan, Feb. 20, 2003: With the majestic Mount Iwate volcano as a backdrop, soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment’s Charlie Company prepare for bilateral ski training at North Wind exercises that were underway until March 2 of that year. About 500 soldiers of the Regiment, nicknamed “Cold Steel,” were in Japan from Fort Wainwright, Alaska, for the bilateral cold-weather field training exercise held between the U.S. Army and the Japanese army. U.S. and Japanese infantry soldiers trained together in ground assaults and ski and snowshoe maneuvers.

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