Military

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday ordered service leaders to “impose ambitious timelines for implementation.”

In memos distributed to all troops, military leaders said the vaccine is a necessary step to maintain military readiness.

The Northwest Passage part of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy’s voyage is expected to last about 10 days, and take place in September.

The exercise being held in July — Pacific Air Forces wasn’t more specific — involves more than 35 aircraft and 800 personnel, and takes place at three airports on Guam and one on Tinian.

Col. Michael “Jody” Shouse assumed command of the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.

The solemn task of sifting through rocks, twigs and ice to find human remains as small as a fingernail continued this month on Colony Glacier.

The 21-year-old soldier identified another military member as her attacker. Her family wants military law changed to include hate crimes.

Hunger among Guard members and reservists is more than double the national rate, according to U.S. Census Bureau data from mid-April through early June.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said he supports changes that would remove decisions on prosecuting sexual assault cases from military commanders, and let independent military lawyers handle them.

“It’s always an adrenaline rush,” said paratrooper Sgt. William Alverson.

Several mountaineers were treated for altitude sickness or frostbite after four days of weather delays. It was the most people ever rescued at once by the crew of a Chinook helicopter outfitted for high altitudes.

Maj. Gen. Peter Andrysiak talked about his own difficult experiences at Anchorage’s downtown ceremony.

Veterans’ gravesites in the Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery were decorated with white crosses, poppies and American flags to honor Memorial Day.

The steep, difficult trail challenges soldiers to live each day with intention

Seventy-seven paratroopers killed in Iraq or Afghanistan are gone but not forgotten.

A team of airmen at the Fairbanks-area base launched a four-day experiment into how effective snow is at dampening dangerous shockwaves from ordnance blasts.

The governor has proposed letting Alaska Native Vietnam War veterans exchange promised federal land allotments that many say are not available in their cultural regions for state lands.

More than 600 soldiers tried for the Expert Infantry and Expert Soldier badges over the course of a grueling week.

The test missile “was not able to complete its launch sequence” due to an unspecified issue it encountered on the aircraft, according to a statement the service published Wednesday.

Serita Unin joined the National Guard in 2009 as a generator mechanic and said combat jobs were not available for women at the time.