Fort Greely News

Any way you look at it, taking care of a loved one with Alzheimer's is a tough job but just imagine if that person is your husband.

Alaska State Troopers have recovered the body of a Delta Junction man who drowned over the Fourth of July weekend.

July 5, 1999 - U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens said Sunday that Fort Greely has the inside track to house the National Missile Defense System's silos if the proposed system ends up based in Alaska.

Alaska Sen. Mark Begich said he and his colleagues in the Senate are digging into a massive 1,300-page climate and energy bill passed by the U.S. House June 26 to understand its impacts and to put their own imprint on the bill.

The following editorial first appeared in the Anchorage Daily News: Alaska's three members of Congress are still trying to ward off the cuts the Obama administration has proposed in missile defense work at Alaska's Fort Greely.

In some kind of parody of Pearl Harbor, SecDef Bob Gates announced late last week that he was sending THAAD air missile defenses to Hawaii and the deployment of the Missile Defense Agency's giant golf-ball shaped floating radar to sea .

Lately Kayla Colyer-Platzer's reality has been consumed with her battle against Hodgkin's disease.

As North Korea is reportedly preparing for a long-range missile test, President Obama says the U.S. is prepared for any threat North Korea might pose.

The United States has deployed missile defense equipment to the Pacific amid reports alleging that North Korea has threatened to fire a ballistic missile toward Hawaii, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today.

Former state lawmakers Pete Kott and Vic Kohring are free to travel without asking for permission from a judge.

Nicole Vandall tries to squeeze on a small army helmet on her sister Kayla Collyer-Platzer Monday in preparation for their flight in a CH-47 Chinook helicopter.

The Pentagon on Tuesday continued to reassure Sen. Mark Begich that $1.2 billion in proposed cuts to the nation's missile defense program won't pose a threat to Alaska or the rest of the country.

Kayla Collyer-Platzer grimaces as her sister Nicole Vandall tries to squeeze on a small army helmet in preparation for their flight in a CH-47 Chinook helicopter on Monday afternoon, June 15, 2009.

Alaska's head missile defense military official, Ft. Greely Col. George Bond, says if a nuclear weapon was successfully launched it could hit Alaska, or the Lower 48, in half an hour.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates visited Elmendorf Air Force Base and Fort Greeley's missile defense facility June 1 at the invitation of Sen.

Wed, Jun 10, 2009 AEROTV-AEA-Crossbow-AHC525-0509a Teeny-Tiny AHRS... Huge Capabilities As we noted yesterday, you rarely see the tiny little boxes that provide the physical guidance for today's ingenious generation of glass panel cockpits.

Prospects for a U.S.-Russian partnership on a missile defense system have improved slightly as Moscow grows increasingly concerned about Iran, Pentagon chief Robert Gates said Tuesday.The defense secretary told senators that U.S. offers to put radar or data exchange centers in Russia are among the options being discussed.Gates recounted a meeting ...

If North Korea launches a long-range missile at the U.S., there is a "high probability" that U.S. missile defense interceptors will shoot it down, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.

In her strongest public remarks to date on the matter, Sarah Palin admonished the Obama adminstration on Saturday for proposing cuts to Alaska's missile defense network, a move she said would leave her state and the rest of the country vulnerable in the case of a future attack.

This is the place to talk about Alaska politics -- state, local, national. Public life in the Last Frontier has probably never been more interesting -- the governor is a national figure in the wake of her 2008 run for vice president, Anchorage faces a heated mayoral race, we have a new U.S. senator, and the usual hardball Alaska politics.