Fort Wainwright Soldier Gets 32 Years for Child Exploitation Crimes David Mayoral, 21, admitted to producing child sexual abuse material and assaulting a 9-year-old. A cybertip to Army CID...
Army National Guard Leader Highlights Challenges of Troop Life in Frigid Alaska An Alaska Army National Guard flight surgeon developed a patented CASEVAC sled creating a “bubble of warmth” to evacuate...
Alaska Woman Sentenced to 17 Years for DUI Crash That Killed Fort Wainwright Soldier A Fairbanks woman was sentenced Monday in the drunk driving crash that killed an 11th Airborne Division gate guard at Fort...
The Alaska Air Route That Sent 8,000 American Warplanes to the Soviet Union in World War II Between 1942 and 1945, nearly 8,000 American warplanes traveled through Alaska on their way to the Soviet Union as part of a...
The Only WWII Land Battle Fought on American Soil: The Forgotten Fight for Alaska When most people think of the Pacific Theater of World War II, they envision tropical islands, heat, and jungle combat...
Operation Washtub: How the Air Force and FBI Recruited Alaskans to Resist a Soviet Invasion From 1951 to 1959, the FBI and Air Force ran Operation Washtub, a covert program that trained bush pilots, trappers, hunters...
Alaska Storm Damage so Bad Many Evacuees Won’t Go Home for at Least 18 Months, Governor Says So far about 575 have been airlifted to the city by the Alaska National Guard.
How This Airman Survived 3 Months in the Alaskan Wilderness After a World War II Plane Crash Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Leon Crane was co-piloting a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber when an engine malfunctioned and it crashed...
Flights Restricted over Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Ahead of Trump-Putin Summit North American Aerospace Defense Command issued a statement saying it would be enforcing Federal Aviation Administration...
Trump and Putin Will Meet at an Alaska Military Base Long Used to Counter Russia The base created by merging Elmendorf Air Force Base and Army Fort Richardson in 2010 has played a key strategic role in...
The US Military Will Risk Everything for Its Own. Here’s Why The rescue of downed U.S. airmen in Iran shows why “leave no one behind” still defines the military, and why it matters for...
These Actors Grew Up as Military Children. It Shaped Everything These 10 actors were raised in military families. Their upbringing didn’t just shape their lives—it still influences how they...
You Took Separation Pay Years Ago. Now the VA Wants It Back From Your Disability Check. Under federal law, a veteran cannot receive both separation pay and VA disability compensation for the same period of service...
Could the US Bring Back the Draft? Who Would Be Called First — and Who Qualifies Could the U.S. bring back the draft? Here’s how Selective Service works today, who would be called first and why only about...
3 Big PCS Changes Are Coming at Once. Here’s What Service Members Need to Know Before Peak Season. In 2026, three major changes are affecting military household goods moves: a new permanent agency to run the system, the end...
![](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-10/full_size_6356_x_4673.jpg?itok=prPcSAsU "U.S. Air Force personnel stand guard at an Alaska airbase during the Cold War in this painting by Mort Kunstler. Operation Washtub trained 89 civilian Alaskans as stay-behind agents to gather intelligence if Soviet forces invaded the territory between 1951 and 1959. ("Guardians of the North" by Mort Kunstler, courtesy National Guard Bureau)")
