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From low sunlight, plunging temperatures and massive snow fall, Alaska's winter are an extreme mix of beauty and danger. Post a photo of you how you live through it.
Heavy snow pounded Valdez and Cordova on January 6, 2012, after the town received 19.2 inches Thursday from the Prince William Sound blizzard, making for a season total of more than 20 feet. Meanwhile, Nome is having its worst cold spell since 1989.
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Sen. Begich visits troops in Afghanistan
Alaska Sen. Mark Begich visits Afghanistan in mid-January, meeting Alaska-based military personnel from Fort Wainwright's 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division in mid-January.
Coast Guard icebreaker escorts tanker through Bering Sea ice
A Russian tanker carrying fuel for an iced-in Nome that without a delivery could run out of crucial supplies before winter's end encountered ice early Friday in the eastern Bering Sea and was escorted by the Coast Guard Cutter Healy Friday, Jan. 6, 2012. Read more
2012 Alaska Military Images: Alaska National Guard
Military photographers share scenes of Alaska National Guard life.
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Capt. Jeff Haney died in an F-22 Raptor crash located approximately 100 miles north of Anchorage, Alaska, November 16, 2010.
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Investigation into Danny Chen's Afghanistan death
Pvt. Danny Chen of the 3rd Battalion, died in Afghanistan in early October. The U.S. Army says eight American soldiers have been charged in connection with the Oct. 3 death of Chen.
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After nearly nine years, 4,500 American dead and 100,000 Iraqi dead, U.S. officials formally shut down the war in Iraq - a conflict that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said was worth the American sacrifice because it set Iraq on a path to democracy.
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Santa visits Alaska villages during the 2011 holiday season assisted by the Alaska National Guard and the U.S. Coast Guard.
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Nation remembers attack on Pearl Harbor
In cities across the country, memorials were held today to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The event marked the United States' official entry into World War II and was memorialized as a "day that will live in infamy" by then president Franklin Delano Roosevelt.