It was on this day, March 17th, 1912, that after 33 years, the contingent of Marines stationed in Sitka, would be pulled out. The reason for the Corps abandoning their station there was that the Navy had stopped using the location for a coaling station. Feeling that there was no further direct need in […]
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HEADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY ALASKA, JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – A paratrooper from the 1st Squadron (Airborne), 40th Cavalry Regiment was found unresponsive in his barracks room here Saturday, March 7, and later pronounced dead. Emergency responders transported Spc. Jason Alexander Thomas, an infantryman, to the 673d Medical Group hospital where medical personnel continued life-saving […]