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Inside the US Army’s failed nuclear ice lair in Cold War Greenland
While the U.S. didn’t get to act out its Bond villain lair fantasies, it did further scientific understandings of the world around us.
In a thawing era, ICEX 2020 kicks off up north
Welcome to Camp Seadragon, a temporary military outpost on an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean.
NORTHCOM commander says US needs Arctic early warning system
Russia has deployed thousands of troops to the Arctic region for training and is expected to field 13 polar icebreakers by 2035. The U.S. has only one working heavy polar icebreaker.
By Shawn Snow
Illegal immigrant charged in hit-and-run death of Marine Vietnam veteran
Detectives allege the veteran was struck by the front of the Toyota and dragged more than 50 feet.
By Jon Simkins
Does ICE follow its policies when it comes to deporting military veterans?
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents aren’t always following the rules in deporting military veterans who are not citizens and treating them without regard for their service to the country, a deported veteran who has since become a citizen told a House Judiciary subcommittee on Tuesday.
By Piper Katarina Hudspeth Blackburn and Sam Cabral, Medill News Services
ICE is supposed to consider service when deporting veterans. It hasn’t been.
There is an extra screening process to deport veterans who don't have citizenship, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement is ignoring it.
Inside the MacMillan Arctic Expedition of 1925
It was only peripherally an attempt to reach the pole, and yet, even with its modest goals, the expedition was no more than a nominal success.
NORTHCOM: Arctic now America’s ‘first line of defense’
New business opportunities in the Arctic also invite new strategic competition, U.S. defense officials say.
By Kyle Rempfer
Man arrested after saying he needed to tour Fort Bragg’s ‘special operations facility’
He said he needed to see the facility to determine if it was worth his time, an investigator said.
By Joshua Axelrod
As shutdown drags on, a ‘Coast Guard City’ rallies
These residents are rallying around their own as the partial government shutdown has left the Coast Guard — the only branch of the armed services that is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security rather than the Pentagon — out in the cold.
Here are the rules of engagement for troops deploying to the Mexican border
The president said troops could fire on migrants who throw rocks. But the unit-level ROEs are more complicated.
By Tara Copp, AP