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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 ...
(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.
Shemya—which is closer to Moscow than to Washington, D.C.—is inhabited only by support contractors who report to the 611th Air Support Group at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage.
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 ...
A strong earthquake shook Shemya Island this morning, but caused no damage to Eareckson Air Station. The 6.0-magnitude earthquake occurred just before 8am in a mostly uninhabited part of the ...
"Delta apologizes for the delay to our customers after flight 128 from Beijing to Seattle diverted to Shemya, Alaska, due to a potential engine issue," Delta spokesman Drake Castaneda told USA TODAY.
I don’t know about you, but it’s difficult to imagine myself on a 3-by-4-mile island like Shemya in a storm like that. The “Bering Bomb” will grow to the size of Alaska on Saturday.
Shemya Island. (D.D. Gibson / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) A Delta Air Lines flight carrying 194 passengers from Beijing to Seattle had to make an emergency stopover Monday on a remote Aleutian ...