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(Brandon Vasquez/U.S. Army) 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.

An Army combat unit has been deployed to Shemya Island off the coast of Alaska in response to recent Russian and Chinese military activity into the Arctic region, service officials said. The 11th ...

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 ...

Delta flight diverts to remote Aleutian Islands airstrip due to ‘potential engine issue’ A rescue flight that landed at Shemya on Monday will allow stranded passengers to continue to Seattle ...

Flight 128 had 194 passengers onboard. The airline released a statement to KIRO-TV: "Delta flight 128 operating from Beijing to Seattle diverted to Shemya, Alaska due to a potential engine issue.

In fact, Shemya featured on the route maps of the carriers (right), but apparently not on their listed schedules, as it was purely a “technical stop”.

Ian Gregor, a spokesperson with the Pacific Division of the Federal Aviation Administration, says Flight 884 "declared an emergency and diverted to Eareckson Air Station in Shemya," at the far ...