No doubt US is the BEST! We love you from 🇵🇭

God bless USA, I am from Canada

God bless America 🇺🇸 🙏 ❤ strong 💪 power 🔋

Very impressive. God bless America.

God, bless America.

Alaska will always be my home! I grew up there and including my tour at Eielson I was there 30+ years!!👍🇺🇸🇺🇸

No one can deny America is always great.

Thank you Alaska you doing a fantastic job 🙏🇬🇧

Alaska is LITERALLY IN THE MIDDLE of IT ALL!.

Hats off to our forces.

Alaska is a strategic choke point when entering or leaving the Arctic. This is a prized American asset.

Remember! It's not only having a large military that matters, it's how good your military is when it comes down to fighting off the enemy's!

alaska strong love from uganda

Well done America 🇺🇸 we are with you 🙏

@VOA Excellent episode. Thank you for providing content re the importance of the Arctic circle.

May god bless the USA forever!

May God bless and protect our troops

Sometimes you gotta sit back and just love this country of ours 🇺🇸. Inspite of all our bickering and fighting we come together when it matters most!

I spent two years from Sept 1965 to Nov 1967 living near and mapping the geology of Eielson Air Force Base, near Fairbanks, Alaska. We knew how important this base was as we were in the depths of the Cold War. There were many large advanced radar towers all over the state. It is not an easy place to live and while working on my masters degree I lived in the bush with the bears and moose during the summers mapping some of the volcanic basalt geology. In the summer it was surprisingly hot with 18 hours of sunlight and in the winter very cold with little sunlight. I remember the sun coming up at 10:45 and setting at around 1:30. I never regret living there and learned to love the silence of the winter when snow hung from the telephone lines and the ice fog cradled you when the temperature went below -20 C. My car’s tires would freeze and you had to have plastic shields on the interior of your car windows as your breath would fog all the windows with out those shields. In the winter new roads would open up as the ground was frozen. All the rivers wound freeze solid and some became able to be crossed without fear. It was also a country of extremes. In the spring of 1967 we experienced a major earthquake, then the tundra fires burned all summer and it ended with our cabin under water in the great flood of August 1967. We left the university of Alaska in November for a month long trip to Fort Belvoir,, Virginia for my three years in the Engineer Corps on the US Army. With in a year in was in Vietnam! What a change from the tundra of Alaska. I certainly would have preferred to be back in Alaska!!

I'm in Alaska now recovering from surgery. I absolutely love this place. Its gotta be one of favorite American states🙏

The Russian TU-95 Bears and other aircraft have been flying into Alaskan airspace for decades to test our response times and to see how close they can get before being intercepted. It’s certainly not a surprise and is pretty normal.

GOD BLESS UNITED STATE of AMERICA☝🏻❤️🇺🇸

Great article and great presentation. It highlight all the strategic importance of Alaska most citizens in the lower 48 never realize. My heartful thanks to all the military and civilian personnel who serve our great nation under the most severe conditions. Be safe and God Bless. I salute you all.

I had never heard of Eielson Air Base, until I made a set of custom pens for their dentist. His father commissioned me to build them. I hope they have served him well!

I served with the 11th during the Korean era, we were a tough bunch! I jumped into Alaska, what an experience!

I thoroughly enjoyed the documentary . It was very interesting and informative . Thanks

I was sent up to Alaska TDY back in the 1980s and 90s to install telephone cables at both major AF bases including the radar stations. And went twice to Shemya AFB. I was station at Norton AFB and later from McClellan AFB both in California. Great to be part of Cold War History. Great video, Those two bases sure changed a lot.

Love this, we just got back from Alaska!

Very informative and interesting. Thank you all.

Thanks you very much VOA

Excellent documentary. Thank you.

Awesome Report!!!

Alaska We Trust 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

I spent a couple years in AK when my father , a Colonel, was in command of the 172nd Infantry Brigade ( Separate), US Army AK. We were stationed at Ft. Richardson. I was there when the army got it's first snow machines. You know how they tested them to see if they were "soldier-proof"? hand one over to a 16 yr old boy and tell him, " see if you can break it?". I drove that thing up ice hills, rivers covered in ice and snow and then up and down dry creek beds on rocks. I finally did break one. But I also taught the army something worth at least one busted snow machine. Never, never, never drive a snow machine with your rifle strapped across your back. It will get caked in snow and ice from the snow and ice thrown up from the tracks, making it impossible to fire. So I "earned" that broken snow machine.

Thank God Alaska is an American State. All of us Canadians would be very nervous if it wasn't, especially with today's conflict.

I’m so glad we have an awesome military. You can see with recent events that if you don’t have one when you need it it is already too late.

👍👍👍 AMERICA is THE BEST.!!! 💖💖💖😍 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ GOD BLESS OUR AMERICA ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Waoh! What a messages, distinct and clear.

Great reporting

Alaska, a national treasure for sure!

Good bless you all . One day my son would join you it's his dream

I was stationed at Ft. Wainwright in 1996-1999. I remember going to the field at Ft Greely. Good times.

Awesome that they kept the base open.

First the Obvious, Ms. Carla Babb is Stunning, Great Job Reporting. I was Stationed at Ft. Rich Alaska. Great group of Soldiers really know their stuff, Navigate by compass with NO real landmarks and the ones you know change during the seasons. Great experience great Command and great Soldiers. had to add COLD, Very Cold, Pee in the wind and it forms Ice, Cold !

Love Alaska Enjoyed the piece Very interesting and informative

This is a very enlightening documentary.

Bless our pilots keeping our skies safe and especially to the crewmen keeping them airborne 💪🏼🇺🇸

Amazing

Very cool presentation

Thank you so much.

Excellent

God bless America 🇺🇸

Very nice video !

A great lesion for all of us to remember each and every day!

Woo, thank god we are allies. Much love from UK.

Great video, great to see that America's military is working hard to defend this great Republic. God bless all of America's Military personnel.

Very Good!

I am very glad that we have a great arms force to keep the beacon of freedom alive forever. PROUD OF AMERICA 🇺🇸

The Russians have the same issues operating their forces in this type of weather but I am very much confident 🇺🇸 the US can do it better 🔥💯

Is this all in response to Russia's statement about wanting Alaska back? Haha yeah show them we're not to be messed with.

I can't imagine another country trying to come here on our land, I feel like America would come together like it usually does during tough times and most citizens will fight to death for this country not just the army.

Well done!!!

Gracious God has blessed America with countless riches.... you are the stewards of it... got a enormous responsibility with all the blessings.....

If the Pentagon is really serious about military capability in Alaska they would look at an alternative to the North Slope oil supply system. It is time to reactive the Haines/ Eilson Pipe line and /or put a refinery into Haines and Skagway and establish a truck route from Whitehorse to Fairbanks and Anchorage

Fantastic

Great!!!!!

Thank you 🙏

Thanks

I was a CH-47 Chinook mechanic as a 242nd Avn. Sugar Bear, back when the Sugar Bear was still on the Hangar at Ft.Wainwright.

General McConnell (excuse my spelling) was an exceptionally impressive gentleman. Regaining Arctic Dominance…. Our men are there to WIN. Well Thank God for this man. Finally someone stands up and tells our young people that winning matters. Treating EVERYONE with equal dignity MATTERS, but that doesn’t mean that I changed my mind. No, I didn’t. WINNING MATTERS!!

One thing I love about America is that, we all kind of races, different ethnicities, we the most diverse military in the world that’s just a strong warning to anyone wanting to fight us. God bless United States 🇺🇸

👍🇺🇲💯 is very good to be in Alaska ,we need more people infrastructure and works

Hope to go back up there on tourism military visit maybe in March or April?

I love this

I LOVE AMERICA ALASKA STATE

Nice job ya got there

I hope someone is thinking about reopening Galena and King Salmon. Those locations had full time Fighter-Interceptors pulling 24/7 alerts. It’s my humble opinion that we need forward deployed alert birds that would of course speed up response times. I was stationed at Galena AFS 1970 -1971 and we had F-4Es.

I want to commend the professional level of reporting from this reporter. Great piece. Very well done.

Yes Alaska is awesome but it's tough to fight in the extreme cold

We love you , our heroes with heart . Love , your American sister 🙏💗

I didn't know THIS ITS. TIME TO LISTEN.

Spent four years as an infantry soldier in the 4/9 Infantry Regiment at Fort Wainwright in the late 80s. Keeping aircraft operating my be difficult, but try dragging an oversized rucksack around the frozen tundra in -50 below. I look back and wondered how in the hell they convinced me to follow orders then. lol

This is a good video.

Highest regards for America, God bless us all, thank you so much to stand as a Father of all Nations to defend and to protect the freedom and rights of all humanity. keep up with honor for good works 💖🙏 God is with us +++ Great greetings from the Philippines

Remember everyone deployed. God bless you all. All the way. 🇺🇸 173rd

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Alaska is American dream:) God bless America

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Can we give a round of applause to the news anchor who got in the back seat of that fighter jet , those are some serious g's 😆

great

I must say that is kool to know

I'm Enjoying the video.Great move USA 🇺🇸✊

This vidéo gave more information to opponents

Good

The windshield with the lowest temperature had been devastating for myself with a -96 with windshield . The uh60 helicopter had to crash land in 60 mph winds in white out conditions and we got out you could not hear yourself in the wind . And so hard to see that only three feet away vision . And we only had a direction to head away from the helicopter incase it started to burn as it was filled with gas cans that had shaken violently in the forced crash landing. To provide the life saving gas cans to a infantry company and in ten man tents . With gas Arctic stoves . One drop of gas was instant frost bite . Even metal zippers caused scabs on the neck that you learn quickly by the scabs to not zip all the way up , and the falling through soft powder snow even with snow shoes . . Had to have others lift you out of the holes that you can’t even move in do to the snow being like water and having all your back back with your tools to stay alive was tough . And to be honest I’m glad to be alive as a couple of people f the men had gone to take a leak . Using buddy system in the snow blizzard you could not even hear yourself yelling for help . But they were close enough to not make out a word but sound was heard and they investigated it to save our life , The patch we earned was the Arctic raider that was also a congressional award given for the Jan to feb top secret mission for Counterterrorism operations , flown to the same base here but called fort wainwright at the time . The pilots I have to say are the bravest I had the honor to fly with. And had seen so many close calls that I truly am a walking Miracle to just be alive. Bare skin on ropes would take the surface of ones fingers or lips trying to untie . That was common with the tents of the 10 man type that we had to hall around like Alaska snow dogs dragging the sled tied to us like rag dolls if the trees grabbed a hold of you and lifted you off your feet . When the sled pulled the other way. A fast learning curve that I was amazed that only 28 people had Severe hypothermia ready to die just in one night storm from hell . But we all were back to shake it all off and be happy to just face the cold winters of mount Rainer Washington . Before the jungle Survival expert badge experience . That’s another story for different time . Thank you veterans for doing the hardest job in the world . For us all .

These are the guys & girls i admire

I always thought of Alaska as a horrible place to play soccer, I’m happy to learn we might end up living there for safety.

We have 145 35’s at Hillfield air base, just 2 miles from our home!