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. The Air Force, as well as the ...

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 ...

But few pilots ever consider Shemya Island, a remote US Air Force outpost 1,500 miles southwest of Anchorage, because there’s so little infrastructure. The rocky island, about two miles by four ...