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"Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis" (book cover)

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Midseason skiing at Arapahoe Basin ski resort. File photo credit: Arina P Habich via Shutterstock.

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Headquarters of the Marine Mountain Warfare Training Center. Photo credit: Bill Gertz / The Washington Times.

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Headquarters of the Marine Mountain Warfare Training Center. Photo credit: Bill Gertz / The Washington Times.

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Marines take a break from mountain warfare training for an MRE -- meals, ready to eat -- break. Photo credit: Bill Gertz / The Washington Times.

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A Marine sentry sits guard during an exercise to dig defensive positions at the Mountain Warfare Training Center. Photo credit: Bill Gertz / The Washington Times.

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A sno-cat vehicle and arctic tents at the Marine Mountain Warfare Training Center. Photo credit: Bill Gertz / The Washington Times.

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Arctic tents used by Marines at the Mountain Warfare Training Center. Photo credit: Bill Gertz / The Washington Times.

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Marines engaged in mountain warfare training use arctic tents. Photo credit: Bill Gertz / The Washington Times.

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Tucker sno-cat vehicles used in mountain warfare training. Photo credit: Bill Gertz / The Washington Times.

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Marine Col. Ronald Storer, commander of the Mountain Warfare Training Center, give a graduation certificate to a Marine scout at a ceremony. Photo credit: Bill Gertz / The Washington Times.

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Marine Col. Ronald Storer, (third from left) commander of the Mountain Warfare Training Center, takes part in a graduation ceremony for Marine scouts. Photo credit: Bill Gertz / The Washington Times.

High in the Sierra Nevada Mountains located halfway between Reno and Yosemite National Park is the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in Bridgeport, California. Several hundred Marines from Camp Lejeune, 2,800 miles away on the other side of the country, traded the swamps of their North Carolina training base for a month of cold weather mountain training here. Commanders say the Marines are training for new missions, countering threats posed by China, Russia, and North Korea. (Bill Gertz/The Washington Times)