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Thousands of U.S. and allied servicemembers, along with aircraft, naval vessels and other equipment, began a large military training exercise Thursday around Alaska and in areas offshore. Northern Edge 2025 is one of two exercises now under way in Alaska.
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The North American Aerospace Defense Command says it detected and tracked Russian warplanes flying in international airspace Tuesday off the coast of Alaska.
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Aircraft maintenance crews from Alaska and South Korea have repaired a U.S. F-16 fighter jet that made an emergency landing last week on a remote island in the Bering Sea. The jet flew out of St. Paul Island Thursday en route to Eielson Air Force Base.
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Two South Korea-based U.S. fighter jets en route to Eielson Air Force Base made an emergency landing Monday on a remote island in the Bering Sea.
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Air Force investigators released a report Tuesday on what caused the pilot of Eielson-based F-16 fighter jet to declare an in-flight emergency shortly after takeoff last year.
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NewsThe organization said it doesn’t consider the incident to be a threat.
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Contractors dismantling Fort Greely’s old nuclear power plant have begun shipping scrap material from the project to a radioactive-waste storage site in Texas.
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NewsThe head of the union that represents civilian employees at Fort Wainwright and Fort Greely says at least a dozen workers have resigned, retired, been furloughed or laid off as part of the Trump administration’s effort to sharply reduce the federal workforce.
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The Air Force has removed two sites from a list of locations around the eastern Interior where the agency has proposed to build radar training facilities. The radar sites are intended to help train F-35 pilots from Eielson Air Force Base to detect and locate signals similar to those emitted by enemy surface-to-air missile facilities that the pilots might encounter in combat.
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The North American Aerospace Defense Command, NORAD, scrambled U.S. and Canadian fighter jets last week to accompany a formation of Russian aircraft flying through international airspace off the coasts of Alaska and Canada.
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An F-35A fighter jet crashed just before 1 p.m. Tuesday at Eielson Air Force Base. The pilot survived and the cause of the accident is under investigation.
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Emergency servicesAlaska State Troopers reported three wrecks involving big trucks over the past couple of days along the Richardson Highway between Fairbanks and Delta Junction.