Indeed it was! Three day day-and-night march/exercise with hot temperatures even during the night due to midnight sun. We ended up getting resupplied with salt that we added to our canteens to avoid any more incidents. We were more used to arctic conditions and not fully prepared for something like that.
Interesting. Many years ago when I was doing initial motorbike racing training, the instructors gave us salt tablets due to the amount of sweat each of us lost each day wearing leather race gear + drinking water all day to make up for it.
I’m in the Rocky Mtns, so it’s pretty dry up here with lots of unprepared people (maybe confirmation bias in my end).