A potential national change to National Guard personnel levels will be postponed for Alaska until Sept. 30, 2025, according to an Alaska congressional delegation announcement.
Imagine standing on the rocky shore of Little Diomede Island, Alaska, waving to your neighbors across the water on Big Diomede Island, Russia. Sounds like a scene from a quirky international sitcom, right? But this is no fictional setup. It’s the real-life geographic and temporal oddity presented by two small islands in the Bering Strait.There…