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Arctic Shield 2016 Wraps Up for Year

Kayla Desroches/KMXT Members of Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak stationed in Kotzebue this summer are heading back to home base. On Monday the Coast Guard wrapped up Operation Arctic Shield 2016, a mission it undertakes during the summer months in order to speed up response time to locations across the state during the busy fishing season, specifically in the Alaskan …

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Coast Guard Wraps Up Training in Arctic Alaska

Members of the Royal Canadian Air Force deliver medical supplies to a temporary medical treatment facility set up as part of Arctic Chinook in Kotzebue, Alaska, Aug. 24, 2016. Arctic Chinook is a joint U. S. Coast Guard and U. S. Northern Command-sponsored exercise that consists of a live field training exercise in a Unified Command structure. Photo by Petty …

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