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."

在加入骑警一周后，天气终于放晴，马尔文·阿提库决定要去打俄罗斯人。他和卢什曼，一位前加拿大步兵现骑警教员，拉出一捆棕色的纸靶，把它们钉在木桩上，在帐篷外树了6个。每一个上面都是一张打印的照片，上面是一个正在往前冲的士兵，他的嘴大张着在喊着什么，来复枪上装着刺刀。卢什曼把他们叫做“科密小队”。

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.

这些靶子在冷战期间曾为北约做过改进。他们肩并肩站在一座小山的山脚下，方圆几里内他们是最高的目标，跟雪地一对比简直明显到不可能打不中。

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.

阿提库在100码远的雪地上画了一条线，并把军队安排在这里。他给了每个人一把子弹，士兵们于是跪在皮衣上，开始用笨拙的古老的步枪射击。阿提库说年纪是他们唯一的优势：老版的来复枪没什么可活动的部分，基本不会被冻住。