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A US Army AH-64D Apache provides air support for Indian and US soldiers during a field-training exercise for Yudh Abhyas 21, October 28, 2021. US Air
The rugged past and fragile future of Alaska’s roadhouses Bailey Berg © Photograph by Kyle Johnson Inside the dining area of The Talkeetna Roadhouse. The open doorway leads to the cafe section of the Roadhouse. When Annie Hopper first saw the Black Rapids Roadhouse in the late 1990s, the 117-year-old log structure was a wreck of rotting timber with a dilapidated sod roof open to the sky. The series of connected cabins had been abandoned for nearly a decade along the Richardson Highway, the wild corridor between Valdez and Fairbanks, Alaska. But for much of the 20th centur...
Army Chief Hints at New Training Center in Alaska While Unveiling New Arctic Strategy Paratroopers from the 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment capture an opposing force soldier at the Combined Arms Collective Training Facility in the Donnelly Training Area in Alaska, Feb. 11, 2021, as part of Exercise Arctic Warrior. (U.S. Army/John Pennell) 16 Mar 2021 The U.S. Army's chief of staff said Tuesday that the service is looking at creating a combat training center in Alaska as part of its new Arctic strategy, "Regaining Arctic Dominance." As part of the strategy, the Army will establish an operati...
Construction of the crucial Hogs Back Dam on Ottawa's Rideau Canal almost thwarted engineers This watercolour, dated 1832, shows the completed dam system and the Hogs Back Falls by the artist Henry Byam Martin. (Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1981-42-5 Source: Dr. Nigel Davies, Gelati, Mexico. c115005k) January 8, 2021 “I was standing on top of it with forty men employed in trying to stop the leak when I felt a motion like an earthquake and instantly ordered the men to run, the stones falling from under my feet as I moved off.” —Colonel John By Today, the Rideau Canal is ...
The 2020-21 season of the Fort McCoy Cold-Weather Operations Course started Dec. 4 at the installation, officially beginning the fifth season of the course. This season, the CWOC training team of instructors â Hunter Heard, Joe Ernst, Manny Ortiz, and Brian Semann â is prepared to hold five, 14-day training sessions of CWOC as well as two, three-day sessions. Class dates are: class 21-01, Dec. 4-17; class 21-02, Jan. 4-17, 2021; class 21-03, Jan. 21 to Feb. 7; class 21-04, Feb. 15-28; and class 21-05, March 8-21. Dates for the three-day short courses are Jan. 22-24 and March 5-7. At...