國(guó)家地理:融化的北極正使一場(chǎng)新的冷戰(zhàn)升溫(12)

About a week into the rangers' mission the weather finally broke, and Marvin Atqittuq decided it was time to shoot Russians. He and Sgt. Dean Lushman, a former Canadian infantryman who had become an instructor with the ranger program, hauled out a sheaf of brownish paper targets, stapled them to sticks, and planted half a dozen in the snow outside our camp. Each bore the printed image of a charging soldier, his mouth open in a yell, his rifle mounted with a bayonet. Lushman called them his "Commie squad."

在加入騎警一周后，天氣終于放晴，馬爾文·阿提庫(kù)決定要去打俄羅斯人。他和盧什曼，一位前加拿大步兵現(xiàn)騎警教員，拉出一捆棕色的紙靶，把它們釘在木樁上，在帳篷外樹了6個(gè)。每一個(gè)上面都是一張打印的照片，上面是一個(gè)正在往前沖的士兵，他的嘴大張著在喊著什么，來復(fù)槍上裝著刺刀。盧什曼把他們叫做“科密小隊(duì)”。

The targets had been developed for NATO forces during the Cold War. Standing shoulder to shoulder at the foot of a small hill, they were the tallest objects around for miles, so obvious against the snow it didn't seem possible to miss.

這些靶子在冷戰(zhàn)期間曾為北約做過改進(jìn)。他們肩并肩站在一座小山的山腳下，方圓幾里內(nèi)他們是最高的目標(biāo)，跟雪地一對(duì)比簡(jiǎn)直明顯到不可能打不中。

Atqittuq drew a line in the snow 100 yards away and arranged his troops along it. He gave each a handful of bullets, and the rangers knelt onto sealskins or parkas and began firing their clumsy, antique rifles. Atqittuq said age was their only advantage: The old rifles had so few moving parts that they usually didn't freeze.

阿提庫(kù)在100碼遠(yuǎn)的雪地上畫了一條線，并把軍隊(duì)安排在這里。他給了每個(gè)人一把子彈，士兵們于是跪在皮衣上，開始用笨拙的古老的步槍射擊。阿提庫(kù)說年紀(jì)是他們唯一的優(yōu)勢(shì)：老版的來復(fù)槍沒什么可活動(dòng)的部分，基本不會(huì)被凍住。