...Juneteenth, 'When you mention the Tuskegee Airmen and the Buffalo Soldiers, make sure you mention the African-American Army Engineers and the Alcan Highway."Myers will speak at UAA Wednesday before going on to Fairbanks and Delta Junction...

...legal boxing event in the Territory of Alaska was held in Juneau. Previously, such boxing was illegal. In 1943, American Army troops landed on Attu Island, beginning a fierce battle to recapture the island from the Japanese. In 1972, U...

...legal boxing event in the territory of Alaska was held in Juneau. Previously, such boxing was illegal. In 1943, American Army troops landed on Attu Island, beginning a fierce battle to recapture the island from the Japanese. In 1972, U...

...Sound off on the important issues at In Alaska In 1912, work began on the Governor's Mansion in Juneau. In 1929, American Army troops landed on Attu Island, beginning a fierce battle to recapture the island from the Japanese. In 1972, U...

...Strong was not born in the state of Kentucky, as he often has declared, and the story of his being a major in a South American army is mere moonshine." Strong died of a heart attack in Seattle on July 27, 1929. He may have been the only foreigner...

...has a legacy from the past. One of Tom's forbears was John Gregory, a captain in the Revolutionary War army. The American army faced annihilation in its early days after catastrophic defeats around New York City. In northern New Jersey, with...

...prisoner of war working in Siberia only made her decision to leave even more wrenching. However she managed it, an American army jeep arrived in the middle of the night in August, 1946 to assist the family's departure. Anita remembers being sick...

Now Playing Synopsis: Set at an indeterminate point in the future, this drama with an overt anti-communist message begins as an ostensible war movie: Russian and Cuban forces have invaded the U.S. and are viciously eliminating the inhabitants of a small town, when a group of teens escapes and plans a counterattack. Jed (Patrick Swayze), Robert (C. Thomas Howell), and six of their friends watch in amazement as soldiers parachute into their town and start shooting. The teens grab a pickup truck, stock up on supplies at the local store, and head for the hills. Meanwhile, the men in the town -- after a minimal resistance -- are rounded up and held at a drive-in theater converted into a concentration camp. The sadistic Soviet military then make them watch acclaimed Russian director Sergei Eisenstein's 1938 classic Alexander Nevsky, as their punishing rehabilitation begins. Meanwhile, after minimal resistance from the adults, a Cuban, Bella (Ron O'Neal), is put in charge and is not certain how he can really defeat the teen army. The Soviets and Cubans have so far defeated the American Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force, but these teens are really something else. After a successful ambush, the teen guerrillas gear up for future forays, when they are suddenly betrayed by one of their number and by doubts about the morality of what they are doing. Red Dawn is noteworthy for being the first movie released with the PG-13 rating, created by the MPAA after public outcry over violent content in the PG-rated Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Gremlins. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi Cast: Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Ron O'Neal, William Smith, Powers Boothe Movie Details Movie Review

...a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army. The use of mercenaries has never been the practice in the American Army. This is a good thing because the American people are intimately tied up in the pros and cons of foreign wars, since...

The American Army has historically used mercenaries ("military contractors," "allied friendly local assets") in conflicts. The Colonial Army...