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The American Empire (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by alphanerd4 to c/usauthoritarianism

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

The US doesn't have any military bases in Alaska? Not even one?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Certainly does. My father-in-law served up there, which he thought was a much better assignment than Vietnam. It was pretty important for early ICBM detection from Russia, since the shortest path to the continental US is through the arctic circle. Still is, so yes, there's bases up there.

[–] problematicPanther 2 points 2 months ago

and in hindsight, it turned out to have been much better than going to Vietnam

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