Available housing is scarce in Fairbanks for Air Force and Army personnel, and the Coast Guard is building or planning new housing in some coastal communities.
The U.S. Army is proposing to replace Fort Wainwright’s coal-fired heat and power plant with natural-gas fired boilers installed around the post. The Army must replace the 65-year-old power plant because it’s unreliable and becoming prohibitively expensive to operate.
Easier access to guns explains why troops based in the US account for a higher percentage of suicide deaths, a Government Accountability Office report said.