Military

Survival course trainees are exposed to subzero temperatures and winds that gust up to 30-plus miles an hour. “They don’t go back inside after they come out here and begin the training,” said instructor Sgt. Garrett Wright.

Moscow has been building its military presence in the Arctic, and one Russia scholar says she’s grown increasingly concerned. While Russia’s Arctic ambitions worry regional experts, so do the lack of ambitions on the part of the United States.

The Coast Guard is investigating the death of a crew member of the cutter Douglas Munro. The Virginia man was found unresponsive Sunday on Amaknak Island.

A Senate proposal has $750 million for a third Coast Guard icebreaker, but that money is caught in a fight over President Trump’s wall at the southern border. Still, there’s more than one way to break ice.

Guardian Flight has released the names of the three crew members aboard the medevac plane that went missing Tuesday night. The company says all three are based in Juneau.

The Pentagon’s report looks at 79 major military installations around the country, assessing both the current and future risks of flooding, drought, wildfires, desertification and thawing permafrost.