This article first appeared in print in the Stars and Stripes Global edition, Jan. 15, 2015. It is republished unedited in its original form. THULE AIR BASE, Greenland — It’s 8:36 on this early ...
Thule Air Base is located in the northwestern corner of Greenland, in a coastal valley 700 miles north of the Arctic Circle and 950 miles south of the North Pole. The base is the United States' ...
Officials unveil the new base sign at a renaming ceremony at Pituffik Space Base, Greenland, April 6, 2023. From left to right, Col. Brian Capps, 821st Space Base Group commander, Chief of Space ...
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - The United States and Greenland have agreed to strengthen economic and trade ties after resolving a dispute over a service contract to a U.S. air base in the north of the Arctic ...
The U.S. military’s Thule Air Base in Greenland is no more. By that name, anyway. The Defense Department’s northernmost installation was renamed Pituffik Space Base recently, using the Greenlandic ...
Over 700 miles north of the Arctic Circle in Greenland sits one of the US's most isolated military installations — a place that could potentially become one of the most important American air bases on ...
THULE AIR BASE, Greenland — The U.S. armed forces’ northernmost base, one that provides key space surveillance and missile warning capabilities but costs more than $100 million a year to operate, is ...
US President Donald Trump has said that he wants to buy Greenland, The Wall Street Journal reported. The US operates Thule Air Base on the autonomous Danish territory, 750 miles north of the Arctic ...
Lt. D.J. Dahlen, left, radiation specialist, and Maj. Gen. Richard O. Hunziker of the Strategic Air Command at Omaha, get a Geiger counter ready for inspection, Jan. 26, 1968, of the area where a B-52 ...
"Thule is fine," a defense official confirmed after a barrage of questions about a meteor that struck miles from a U.S. air base in Greenland with an explosive force of 2.1 kilotons. The meteor ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A fireball that streaked across the sky above the Thule Air Base in Greenland on July 25 was ...