New Cold-Assignment Incentive Pay Coming for Airmen and Guardians at 7 Bases As of April 1, airmen and Guardians stationed at U.S. bases where temperatures sometimes drop 20 degrees below zero will earn...
On the Ice with Marines Preparing for War in the Arctic We spent time with the Marines miles above the Arctic Circle in Norway as part of the largest NATO exercise in the region...
Money for Coast Guard Icebreaker, Key to Added Arctic Presence, Included in Newly Passed Funding After repeated requests, the Coast Guard finally will be able to buy a commercially available icebreaker.
Schumer, Gillibrand Call for New 'Skibird' Aircrafts at Stratton Air National Guard Base U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand are calling on the Air Force to replace a fleet of aging aircrafts at...
Supply or Die: Sustaining Marines in the High North so They Can Fight and Win a Future War Marine Corps and Norwegian sustainers participating in exercise Nordic Response 24 said that operating in a cold-weather...
Inside a Navy Shock Trauma Platoon Deployed to NATO Exercise and What It's Learning from the Ukraine War Seven U.S. service members are part of a U.S. Navy shock trauma platoon -- a specialized unit that acts as a mobile emergency...
Above the Arctic Circle, Infantry Marines Are Improvising to Battle Harsh Conditions as Part of NATO Force The human cost of this environment requires constant assessment. On top of hampering tactical plans, the individual Marine is...
Why the First Nuclear Sub Had to Stop for Auto Parts Before a Secret Mission Normally, crossing an ocean wouldn't be a problem for any ship or submarine, but the Arctic Ocean was covered in vast, dense...
US Air Base in Greenland Gets New, Inuit Name Thule Air Base, the Pentagon's northernmost military installation, has been renamed to better reflect the culture of the...
Soldiers Issued High-Speed Arctic Gear as Army Gets Serious About Fighting in the Cold Hundreds of soldiers are now receiving layered protection suits capable of withstanding temperatures as low as minus 65...
Police Who Shot Florida Airman 6 Times in His Home May Have Entered Wrong Apartment, Family Says Senior Airman Roger Fortson lived in an off-base residence, and his special operations squadron at Hurlburt Field in the...
Florida Airman Was Shot by Deputy Within Seconds of Opening Apartment Door, Body Cam Footage Shows Only as Fortson is lying on the floor of his apartment fatally wounded does the deputy tell him to drop his weapon, a firearm...
'They Took My Gift Away': In Interview, Mother of Florida Airman Killed by Police Describes Shock Meka Fortson told Military.com in an exclusive interview Thursday that her son, Senior Airman Roger Fortson, had always...
Army Pumping Millions into Food Kiosks, But They May Soon Be Obsolete Kiosks are effectively small snack stands providing soldiers with sandwiches, candy, chips and soda -- offerings that hold...
Apache Crash Injures 2 Fort Riley Soldiers as Army Grapples with Nonstop Aviation Incidents The pair of soldiers with the 1st Infantry Division's Combat Aviation Brigade were being treated for injuries after the crash...