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...Nome, lock, stock & barrel. On the plains east of the city, Marks Air Force Base-once the hub of several satellite fields and home for 10.000 World War II troops-was deserted save for its housekeepers and the solitary comings & goings of commercial airliners. The little (pop. 1,852) Alaskan coastal city, just under 30 jet-driven minutes from Siberian fighter outposts, last week found herself 500 miles out in front of the new U.S. defensive position...
...Sitka, and out of Juneau, the capital of the territory. Under the armed forces' new strategy for defending Alaska, the U.S. was coiling its strength-its winterized jet fighters, its cadres of weather-wise pilots and its supporting Army troops-into one tight defense net in the Alaskan heart...
...lonely Eielson, troops are living in portable Fiberglas and canvas shelters. At Fort Richardson, 1,100 men are crammed into a new 500-man barracks; officers and noncoms with families live in squalid hovels, pay extortionate rents. The Air Force had long had to beg Congress for its Alaskan housing money. Now costs are enormous: a prefab house that would cost $9,800 in the U.S. costs $50,000 by the time it is freighted to Alaska from Seattle and erected at the going wages of the territory's high-priced carpenters and plumbers...
Last spring, Ike Eisenhower told Congress that Alaskan defenses were in no shape to meet the potentialities of war. Kepner, for all of his awareness of what his command lacks, professes not to be so gloomy. "If the enemy invades, we'll hand him quite a jolt," he says laconically...
...that the Army and the United States Brewers Foundation were engaged in a "brazen" plot to get intoxicants to soldiers, and demanded that everybody in authority in the U.S. keep a clear head by swearing off for the duration. She also suggested that Congress investigate the drinking habits of Alaskan Eskimos, on the ground that the corrosive effect of alcohol in the North fairly invited a Russian invasion...