The Sealaska Heritage Institute is hosting a series of noon lectures honoring Native warriors — past and present. Tuesday’s lecture is about code talkers, a group of Native soldiers who helped transmit coded messages during World War II.
Military
Service members from all branches remembered, honored during Veterans Day observance
Rear Admiral Michael McAllister, commander of the U.S. Coast Guard’s 17th District, was the guest speaker during Friday’s observance at Centennial Hall.
Friday’s Veterans Day events
Friday is Veterans Day. In Juneau, a ceremony will be held from honoring veterans of all wars at Centennial Hall.
Support community to host veterans town hall Sunday in Palmer
This weekend, the first veteran town hall to be held in Alaska is happening in Palmer. The event is part of a growing national movement to better integrate the lives and experiences of veterans with the civilian world
High-level U.S., Canadian military chiefs meet again to confer on Arctic training, operations
Ten high-level U.S. and Canadian commissioned and noncommissioned officers toured the Army’s Black Rapids Training Site in Delta Junction on Tuesday.
Men fear machine ‘trapping human souls,’ arrested after planning attack on HAARP facility
The High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program or HAARP facility in Gakona was the target of a planned attack by two Georgia men. The Douglas Enterprise reported that 30-year-old Michael Mancil, and 21-year-old James Kenneth Dryden, both of Douglas, GA were arrested Thursday night after loading weapons, including assault rifles, thousands of rounds of ammunition, bullet proof vests, radio communications equipment and $5,000 cash into a vehicle.