[Norway]: Exercise Hanevik

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Hærens Jegerkommando
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The Ministry of Defence has deemed it necessary for Special Forces to enter a new training regime and has launched Exercise Hanevik which will bring together the 1st Company, Hærens Jegerkommando which will be the first of many to undergo the exercise set out by the hierarchy. The following units of the 1st Companyhad been deployed for their training exercises:

- 1ST PLATOON
25 Personnel, 10 Mercedes-Benz Geländewagen

- 2ND PLATOON
25 Personnel, 10 Mercedes-Benz Geländewagen

- 3RD PLATOON
25 Personnel, 10 Mercedes-Benz Geländewagen

- 4TH PLATOON
25 Personnel, 10 Mercedes-Benz Geländewagen

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With the exercise now under way, personnel and their equipment had been relocated to a one month training exercise in the Bardufoss area of Troms, Northern Norway where a makeshift camp had been set up at Bardufoss Airport for the one hundred soldiers and their training officers. Training in this harsh environment where temperatures were between -18 degrees and -25 degrees celsius was going to have Special Forces operatives learning how to fight, move and survive in extreme weather conditions.

To ease soldiers into the temperatures, they would all undertake a 20km run through the village of Bardufoss starting at 04:30am and would then undertake an ice-breaking drill where operatives must plunge into a hole cut in a frozen lake, drop their backpack into the lake and then push their backpack out which was going to be a tough task with bags weighing upwards of 30kg and then pull themselves out using ski poles.

Day one would result in many other drills such as weapons training in arctic temperatures, and how to control their weapons during the tough weather.