Military

Aug 15 2018
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U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Karl Schultz, U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, and Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer talked to reporters from the beach near the Nome Port. Photos by Margaret DeMaioribus/KNOM.

Sullivan, military brass visit Nome with ambitions for Arctic role in national security

By | Federal Government, Military, Southwest, Western

U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, Navy Secretary Richard Spencer and U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Karl Schultz are touring the state in an effort to push for national security in the Arctic. Their visit Monday in Nome coincides with the National Defense Authorization Act, which was scheduled to be signed by President Donald Trump.

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Jul 07 2018
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Margaret Stock during her 2016 run for U.S. Senate as an independent.(File photo courtesy Margaret Stock's U.S. Senate campaign)

An uncertain future for immigrants pushed out of military

By | Federal Government, Military, Nation & World

Immigrants who joined the military under a program granting a pathway to citizenship are being kicked out of the service. Now they face a precarious fate with their residency statuses now in jeopardy. Attention on the changes to the program roared back into headlines after an Associated Press article came out July 4.

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Jun 26 2018
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Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis speaks with Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan on June 25, 2018 on the Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, flight line. Mattis and Sullivan held a joint press conference after a visit to Fort Greely, Alaska. (Photo by Airman 1st Class Eric M. Fisher/U.S. Air Force)

Defense secretary highlights Alaska’s strategic military role during Eielson visit

By | Federal Government, Interior, Military

The U.S. military increasingly relies on Alaska, the defense secretary said Monday, both to provide a base of operations to maintaining dominance of the Indian and Pacific oceans to the south and to enable the Coast Guard and Navy to maintain control of U.S. Arctic waters, to the north.

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