'Cool School' teaches airmen to conquer Arctic climes
FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Staff Sgt. Samuel Ley, a 66th Training Squadron, Detachment 1 survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialist, demonstrates how to use an MK-124 smoke and illumination signal on the Chukchi Sea, Jan. 13. (U.S. Air Force file photo) ‘Cool School’ teaches airmen to conquer Arctic climes EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska — It is a place where wind gusts as high as 50 mph, wind chills drop to minus-60 degrees Fahrenheit and where the sun does not rise above the horizon for 65 consecutive days. Arctic survival training is not for the faint of heart. However, for...