The U.S. Army has deployed soldiers from Alaska, Hawaii and Washington state to an air station on Shemya Island in the Aleutians, about 280 miles from Russia. That's as Russian aircraft and naval ...

Portions of three Army units have been deployed to Shemya Island off the coast of Alaska in response to recent Russian and Chinese air and sea probes into the Arctic region, service officials said.

The U.S. Army sent paratroopers, radar platoons and at least one M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System to a tiny island off of Alaska this week, in a sudden show of force projection following ...

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 11th Airborne Division, board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III ...

U.S. Army soldiers were deployed to the remote Shemya Island in Alaska last week, as part of a training exercise that follows recent flights of Russian and Chinese aircraft near American airspace in ...

Current time and date at Shemya AFB Airport is 07:48:13 AM (AKDT) on Tuesday, Oct 14, 2025 Looking for information on Shemya AFB Airport, Shemya, United States? Know about Shemya AFB Airport in detail ...

SHEMYA ISLAND, Alaska - A Seattle-bound Delta Air Lines flight had to make an emergency landing on a remote Alaskan island. The Boeing 767-300ER aircraft was enroute to Seattle from Beijing with 194 ...