The crew was the first to receive the new medal, which was created last year for missions sailing under Arctic ice.

At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, as the fear of nuclear Armageddon hung over American and Soviet citizens, ...

Some are specific to a unit they serve in — like Airborne, Jungle, or Arctic — while others are earned after graduating from some of the Army’s toughest training courses, like Ranger and ...

A researcher from the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine joined Vermont Army National Guard soldiers in the Canadian Arctic recently to study improvements to military cold ...

US Army soldiers were deployed to a remote island southeast of Alaska last week as part of a “force protection operation” ...

Col. Christopher Higgins, commander of the 354th Civil Engineering Squadron during the ribbon-cutting ceremony. Since 1946, the Alaska District has served as the nation’s leader in arctic ...

The Army Arctic Strategy supports the 2019 DoD Arctic Strategy and lays out how the Army will generate, train, organize and equip the force to partner with Arctic allies and secure the national ...

Senior Army officers and civilians gave a blunt assessment of the difficulties the service faces in operating in the Arctic during a panel talk at the Association of the U.S. Army's (AUSA) main ...

Elements of the 11th Airborne Division and the 1st and 3rd Multi Domain Task Forces landed Thursday on Shemya Island, which ...

The US Army has launched a new regional headquarters in Alaska that will oversee the service’s rotary-wing flight operations in the high north. Arctic Aviation Command was formally launched on 8 ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov vowed in an interview published on Friday that Moscow would defend its interests in ...

As military activity increases in the Arctic, the US Army is putting renewed emphasis on the region, particularly Alaska, seeking to rebuild its ability to operate in the toughest conditions.