The unit was stationed somewhere beyond the Northern Circle.
"Cold isn't anything here," boasted on old-timer. "It was so
cold in Alaska where we were, that the fire in the stove froze and we couldn't
blow it out."
"That's nothing," said his rival in soldiering. "Where we were
the words spoken by our commanders came out of their mouths in pieces of ice
and we had to fry them to see what the orders were about."