(18 Sep 2025)
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Kangerlussuaq, Greenland – 17 September 2025
1. Wide of soldiers getting up and running
2. Mid of soldier shouting and firing belt-fed machine gun
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Morten Kruse, Major, Danish Army, Schleswig Regiment of Foot:
“There are two aspects that are challenging. The first is that there is no real infrastructure. So, we need to move everything by boat or by air. And that makes it very difficult to resupply the company. And the other thing is that there’s a lot of hills and altitude meters. And that means it is very hard for my soldiers to carry all their stuff in their bag. It takes a long time to move from A to B by foot.”
4. Wide of aerial view of Greenland glacier, pan left to show open ramp of helicopter
5. Close of soldier looking out of back ramp
6. Wide of soldier laying on ground and looking out of helicopter ramp
7. Wide of helicopter arriving
8. Wide of soldiers exiting helicopter
9. Wide of helicopter and soldiers
10. Wide of Swedish soldiers walking up hill
11. Wide of Danish F-16 fighter jet driving past camera on runway
12. Close of F-16 pilot in cockpit
STORYLINE:
Denmark is leading a military exercise with hundreds of troops from several European NATO members in Greenland, a maneuver that coincides with months of tensions over the Trump administration’s desire for U.S. jurisdiction over the vast Arctic territory.
The Arctic Light 2025 exercise, which follows maneuvers with identical or similar titles in previous years, involves more than 550 service members from Denmark and NATO allies France, Germany, Sweden and Norway, according to the Danish military.
On Wednesday Danish, French and German soldiers trained infiltrating an enemy base by helicopter near Kangerlussuaq in western Greenland.
Major Morten Kruse of the Danish army stressed the difficult terrain and remoteness of Greenland as the biggest challenges for his soldiers.
“There’s a lot of hills and altitude meters. And that means it is very hard for my soldiers to carry all their stuff in their bag. It takes a long time to move from A to B by foot,” Kruse said after the exercise.
The exercise also includes Swedish reconnaissance units, who are using drones to spot enemy movement during the drills.
Kangerlussuaq is the main base for the Danish air force on the island.
Located 25 kilometres further inland than the other coastal settlements in Greenland the airstrip is protected by mountains on both sides. The nearby glacier creates a stable climate zone which makes the airfield usable throughout the year unlike other airports on the coast, which have to put up with the ever-unpredictable weather in Greenland.
The stated aim of the exercise is to strengthen the operational readiness of the Danish armed forces and Greenland, a strategically located island that is a semiautonomous territory of Denmark.
The military says its personnel is training along with allies to reinforce “their joint response capabilities against destabilizing threats to Greenland, the Kingdom of Denmark, and NATO in the North Atlantic and Arctic regions.”
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