The Thule Air Base - the US military's most remote and northern outpostFrom The Daily Mail Online:
This radar station is so remote that it sees no sunlight for four months of the year. It is also so powerful it could spot a tennis ball in flight 3,000 miles away. Gordon Corera visits America's controversial missile defence system in northern Greenland, where the Cold War never ended
Our pick-up truck is struggling up a hillside littered with boulders and rubble. A thunderous rumble echoes around as a glacier churns out another iceberg into Wolstenholme Fjord.
Gleaming bright white below us is a vast runway, which dominates Thule Air Base, the US military's most remote and northern outpost. The 10,000ft-long strip is painted to reflect the sun, otherwise the permafrost beneath it would melt and it would warp.
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My Comment: If I was to be stationed here ..... should I regard this as a promotion .... or a demotion?
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