(Brandon Vasquez/U.S. Army) The U.S. Army has deployed soldiers from Alaska, Hawaii and Washington state to an air station on Shemya Island in the Aleutians, about 280 miles from Russia.

Troops with the 11th Airborne Division, as well as the 1st and 3rd Multi Domain Task Forces, deployed to Shemya Island, part of the Aleutian Islands, on Sept. 12.

An Army combat unit has been deployed to Shemya Island off the coast of Alaska in response to recent Russian and Chinese military activity into the Arctic region, service officials said. The 11th ...

U.S. Army soldiers were deployed to the remote Shemya Island in Alaska last week, as part of a training exercise that follows recent flights of Russian and Chinese aircraft near American airspace ...

Soldiers of the 11 th Airborne Division, as well as the 1 st and 3 rd Multi Domain Task Forces, deployed to Shemya Island, part of the vast Aleutian Islands archipelago, on September 12. Shemya Island ...