Alaska’s Congressional Delegation is pleased today to announce the Commissioning Ceremony for the USS Anchorage will be held in Anchorage next September or October. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus is personally delivering the good news to each member of the delegation via telephone calls today.
Navy “Strongly Supports†Anchorage for Namesake’s Commissioning Senator Lisa Murkowski received a response from the Secretary of the Navy’s office regarding her November request to have theUSS Anchorage – a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship – commissioned in Anchorage once it completes its sea trials.
January 9, 2011, Juneau, Alaska – Governor Sean Parnell ordered state flags lowered to half-staff on Thursday, January 12, in honor and memory of former State Representative Edmund “Ed†Orbeck. He passed away Friday morning in Arizona at the age of 96.
Terrorist organizations have shifted Internet activity to social networks *Reports from Beirut say Hezbollah is searching for information on the Israeli army’s Facebook activity; American, British and Canadian soldiers have been instructed to remove identifying information from social networks; and users can quickly download instructions from Hamas’s open public forum on how to make an […]