【10月8日】看軍聞學英語

■泰戈爾

原文：

Two U.S. Air Force air commandos completed a rigorous mountain warfare school in Argentina, becoming the first to do so in the service’s history.

The airmen from the 492nd Special Operations Wing and 919th Special Operations Wing graduated recently from the Escuela Militar de Montaña in Bariloche, Argentina, according to a release. The school is set in Patagonia’s rough terrain and is intended to push students to their physical and mental limits.

"Nothing compared to the level of mountaineering we would endure during this course," the 919th SOW airman said in the statement. "They took what I had previously considered intense hiking and went vertical. While I had some experience, this school introduced an entirely new element: multi-pitch rock climbing."

The air commandos’ curriculum centered around high-altitude operations, cold-weather survival and mountainous landscape movements, per the release. Over the course of several weeks, the airmen mastered advanced rock climbing, rope safety techniques and the use of single-rope bridges to cross mountain rivers.

中譯：

2名美國空軍航空突擊兵完成了一所位於阿根廷、極其嚴格的山地戰學校課程，成為該軍種歷史上首批達成此項壯舉的人員。

新聞稿指出，這2名分別來自第492特種作戰聯隊與第919特種作戰聯隊的空軍官兵，日前畢業於阿根廷巴里洛切的「山地軍事學校」。該校坐落於巴塔哥尼亞（Patagonia）崎嶇險峻的地形中，旨在將學員的體能與心理極限推向邊緣。

「過去經歷的任何訓練，都無法與我們在這次課程中忍受的高強度登山相比，」來自第919特種作戰聯隊的空軍官兵在聲明中表示：「他們把我原本認為很激烈的健行，直接變成了垂直攀登。雖然我之前有些經驗，但這所學校引入了一個全新的元素：多繩距攀岩。」

新聞稿指出，這2名航空突擊兵的課程核心圍繞在高海拔作戰、寒帶作戰生存以及山地地形戰術移動。在為期數週的課程中，這2名空軍官兵精通了進階攀岩、繩索安全技術，以及利用單索突擊吊橋穿越山區河流的技巧。

-關鍵軍語-

※commando：突擊兵

※mountain warfare：山地戰