At the Oliktok Long Range Radar Site, the erosion reached a line a year and half ago forecast for 2040. Millions will be spent to fortify installations worth billions.
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Florida woman retraces grandfather’s WWII service in the Aleutians
“It’s like a living museum to go there and to see how things were,” said Karen Abel, granddaughter of a Royal Canadian Air Force veteran of World War II’s Aleutian campaign. “And to see the guns. You get to touch them and feel them and see where they were placed in action. It’s not in a museum. It’s not behind glass. It was exactly as it was then.”
Radar Love: The solitary rhythm of life at one remote radar site
Scattered across Alaska are 15 radar sites in some of the most remote areas of the state. Tiny crews of private contractors live at them for months at a time.
The pulses overhead: remote radars still tie together Alaska’s air defense
The Air Force’s long range radar site at Cape Romanzof is one of 15 in Alaska beaming pulses 250 miles in every direction, probing the sky for abnormalities.
7 Years Of U.S. Drone And Airstrikes: White House Tallies Civilian Deaths
Between Jan. 20, 2009, and the end of 2015, the White House says, the U.S. carried out 473 airstrikes in places that weren’t in “areas of active hostilities” — such as Iraq or Afghanistan.
Missile Defense Agency contracts Kodiak launch facility
The Missile Defense Agency announced Thursday a contract with the state-run launch facility that could be worth as much as $80 million over the next six years.