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A Congressional Gold Medal ceremony honored the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) of World War II at the Capitol Visitor's Center in Washington D.C., March 10, 2010. See photos from the ceremony as well as images of Alaska's own WASPs.
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Anchorage longshoremen received training to drive Stryker armored combat vehicles from ship to railhead Thursday February 4, 2010 at the Port of Anchorage.
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Running list of profiles of Alaskan, or Alaska-based, soldiers who have died since 2003.
Published: October 1st, 2009 09:51 AM
Last Modified: October 1st, 2009 10:02 AM
Alaska's U.S. senators today called on the Obama administration to reconsider its objection to federal retirement pay for World War II veterans who patrolled Alaska when it was a territory.
Sens. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican, and Mark Begich, a Democrat, urged the administration in Senate floor speeches today to change its stance on a provision they inserted in the 2010 Senate Defense Bill to restore pay for 26 elderly members of the Alaska Territorial Guard. Begich said one of the veterans died this week, leaving 25.
The pay was reduced in January after a law passed by Congress in 2000 was reinterpreted to no longer recognize the guard's service as federal active duty.
The administration says the action would establish a precedent of treating service by state employees as active duty to compute such pay.
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Begich's floor speech today on the Territorial Guard
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