A new Army manual lays out the ‘arctic determination’ at the heart of fighting in extreme cold
A new U.S. military manual defines the survival and tactical needs of fighting a war in the Arctic and extreme cold weather ...
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Alaska Natives Want the Military to Finally Clean Up Its Toxic Waste
Their complaint calls for the United Nations to investigate how military waste on Sivuqaq continues to violate the rights of ...
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Leaders from Alaska's St. Lawrence Island take contamination claims to U.N.
Tribes from the Bering Sea isle say they’re living — and dying— with the toxic legacy of Cold War military installations. A U ...
Military Times29d
The Army’s permafrost test bed in Alaska set for significant upgrade
A new $11.4 million operations center, next to the tunnel in Fox, Alaska, is set for completion ... started as a Cold War bunker project, eventually abandoned, to protect personnel and weapons ...
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INTENSE COLD IN ALASKA.; Temperatures Sometimes Go Far Below Zero in the Winter.
That the automobilists who would take part in the race from New York to Paris would be compelled to withstand severe cold if they should go through Canada and Alaska in Winter, as advised by ...
Time27d
CANADA: Cold War
men & machines could fight a war in the Arctic. A Canadian combat team was sent north from Whitehorse in the Yukon. An “aggressor force” of U.S. troops from the Alaska Command headed south.
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Alaska Natives want the US military to clean up its toxic waste
In June 1942, Japan’s invasion of the Aleutian islands in Alaska prompted the U.S. military ... intelligence gathering needed to win the Cold War? Viola Waghiyi, who is Yupik from Sivuqaq ...
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Cold War
a Douglas C-54D Skymaster disappeared en route from Alaska to Montana. No trace of its crew and passengers, including a pregnant mother and her young son, has ever been found Francine Uenuma ...