FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration has asked Congress to fund a fourth missile defense silo field at Fort Greely in Alaska. Trump wrote a letter to Congress on ...

FORT GREELY ... missile is a test launch headed into the Pacific Ocean or an attack on an American city. In a windowless office known as “the node,” a five-member team of Alaska ...

FAIRBANKS - After just six years, the military is planning to abandon the first six underground missile silos at Fort Greely because of “reliability concerns” and because the silos were not ...

Bush in 2004, consists of 30 interceptors – 26 at Fort Greely, Alaska and four at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The addition of the missile interceptor base to Fort Greely has been ...

Alaska's Fort Greely near Delta Junction is a key element in the nation's missile defense system, and the budget cuts threatened to halt new development there. The reductions fueled fears -- so ...

(KUAC File photo) The Missile Defense Complex at Fort Greely was evacuated last week and its personnel were ordered to take shelter. But military officials won’t say if those actions were taken ...

FORT GREELY, Alaska — In a bulldozed clearing of moose ... Today, workers are busy on the second missile field, putting into the ground 10 more interceptors by year’s end.

FORT GREELY, Alaska – Soldiers with the 49th Missile Defense Battalion and Texas National Guard recently proved their readiness to uphold the no-fail mission of protecting Americans from long ...

Fort Greely’s missile-defense base could ... of an 80-million-dollar mechanical engineering building at Greely’s missile field 1. That’s one of three missile fields at the base, and it ...

R-Alaska, had been urging the administration to make fully operational all 40 silos originally planned for Fort Greely. Problems like mold and water leaks are now showing up in Missile Field 1 ...

If the test succeeds, the Missile Defense Agency plans to push ahead with plans to add 14 more interceptor rockets to silos at Fort Greely ... from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the California ...