US Army slashes thousands of posts as it prepares to pivot

US Army slashes thousands of posts as it prepares to pivot

According to the plan, the Army will cut about 10,000 spaces for engineers and similar jobs that were tied to counter-insurgency missions. An additional 2,700 cuts will come from units that don't deploy often and can be trimmed, and 6,500 will come from various training and other posts.
Shooting stuns whaling village on Alaska’s North Slope

Shooting stuns whaling village on Alaska’s North Slope

The community, known as Tikigaq in Inupiaq, is laid out in a treeless grid around the Tikigaq School — "Home of the Harpooners." The local cemetery is surrounded by a fence made of whale bones stuck upright in the tundra, and remnants of prehistoric sod-house villages sit nearby.