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 ...

Soldiers with the 11th Airborne Division moved to the tiny Shemya Island with ... US Air Force fighter jets conduct back-to-back intercepts of Russian aircraft near Alaska US Air Force ...

The U.S. military has moved about 130 soldiers to Shemya Island in Alaska's Aleutian chain.. The deployment comes in response to a recent surge in Russian military activity near U.S. territory ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — About 130 U.S. soldiers are returning to their bases after being deployed last week to a remote Alaska island with mobile rocket launchers amid a spike in Russian military ...

U.S. Army soldiers assigned to 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 11th Airborne Division, maneuver on Shemya Island, Alaska, as part of ...

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 ...

US Army soldiers were deployed to a remote island southeast of Alaska last week as part of a “force protection operation” amid an expected increase in Russian and Chinese military exercises in ...

Soldiers of the 11 th Airborne Division, as well as the 1 st and 3 rd Multi Domain Task Forces, deployed to Shemya Island, part of the vast Aleutian Islands archipelago, on September 12. Shemya ...

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.

In this image released by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 11th Airborne Division ...

HEADQUARTERS, 11TH AIRBORNE DIVISION, JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (Sept. 14, 2024) – Elements of the 11th Airborne Division, and the 1st and... Arctic Angels deploy to Aleutian Islands ...

U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 11th Airborne Division board a U.S. Air Force C-17 "Globemaster III" transport aircraft for a force projection operation to Shemya Island, Alaska, on September 11.