Working with Latvian partners, Canadian and American soldiers experience winter conditions, training to spot enemy positions and call in indirect fire support at Adazi training grounds in Latvia, as part of Operation Atlantic Resolve. Soundbites from Canadian and American soldiers.

1. (00:00) VARIOUS ANGLES OF SOLDIERS FROM FIRING MORTARS AT TARGETS WHILE TRAINING AT ADAZI TRAINING GROUNDS IN LATVIA

2. (00:46) Soundbite, Staff Sergeant Salas, 2nd Cavalry Regiment

“Today we are firing, we’re supporting our Canadian and Latvia counterparts, our allies, firing mortar rounds, 120s, off the Stryker platform”

“All we’re doing is supporting and rehearsing with their forward observers to ensure that they’re all copacetic with the way they’re firing and getting used to firing together, just being able to understand the different dialects, different languages obviously. Weather is one big one, ‘cause it’s very cold out here. It might not look cold but it definitely is cold.”

3. (01:20) INFANTEERS FROM THE 3RD BATTALION OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN REGIMENT (3RCR) WATCH ENEMY POSITIONS AT ADAZI TRAINING GROUNDS IN LATVIA

4. (01:31) Soundbite, Infanteer from The 3rd Battalion of the Royal Canadian Regiment (3RCR) speaks from his observation position at Adazi training ground, Latvia

“We just saw two enemy vehicles mounted with MGs in the back, approximately 3 pers per vehicle. They came out from over there moving to the left, dropped off some targets, which will be our notional enemy for us and then they took off.”

Fellow infanteer interjects

“What’s really important when you’re giving out grids like this and stuff like that is you have other OPs that are set at the bottom, so you need to give them a heads up over the radio that they might be coming their way. So a good direction would be “they’re coming in from the south heading east”, right? We’re further south, they’re heading to the east, so heading towards our other call sign, so it would be good to know that it might, at a certain point, these vehicles might cross their arch so they could have a good visual on them.”

5. (02:15) Voice over radio – “I can hear Wolfpack 86 loud and clear, but he can not hear me”

Canadian infanteer says to fellow infanteer, “Wolfpack!” “See, they get cool names.” “Mm-mm”

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