Portions of three Army units have been deployed to Shemya Island off the coast of Alaska in response to recent Russian and Chinese air and sea probes into the Arctic region, service officials said.

The U.S. Army has deployed soldiers from Alaska, Hawaii and Washington state to an air station on Shemya Island in the Aleutians, about 280 miles from Russia. That's as Russian aircraft and naval ...

Troops with the 11th Airborne Division, as well as the 1st and 3rd Multi Domain Task Forces, deployed to Shemya Island, part of the Aleutian Islands, on Sept. 12. The Air Force, as well as the ...

U.S. Army soldiers were deployed to the remote Shemya Island in Alaska last week, as part of a training exercise that follows recent flights of Russian and Chinese aircraft near American airspace ...

The Army sent elements of the 11th Airborne Division to Shemya Island, Alaska on September 12 in response to the planned drills as a show of “ready, lethal force,” according to the Army statement.

As part of a “force projection operation,” the Army on Sept. 12 sent the soldiers to Shemya Island in the Aleutian chain of western Alaska.

The deployment to Shemya Island involved soldiers from Alaska, Washington and Hawaii with the 11th Airborne Division and the 1st and 3rd Multi Domain Task Forces, Sgt. 1st Class Michael Sword ...

“Shemya Island sits in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean, and the soldiers of Task Force Geronimo, made up of units from across U.S. Army Pacific landed there last week with long range fires ...

as part of a force projection exercise to Shemya Island, Alaska, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Sept. 13, 2024. (Airman 1st Class Hunter Hites/U.S Air Force via AP) ...