Melting ice has US military looking north to the Arctic
UNALASKA — Army helicopters began flying in and out of the scraggly wilderness near this fishing town in August, surprising even the mayor. The tan, twin-rotor Chinook aircraft thumped over treeless cliffs and the historic port of Dutch Harbor, parking at a mountainside airstrip too small to land jet airliners. Soldiers came and went, sometimes staying at the main hotel in town, across the street from a bar called the Norwegian Rat Saloon. Unalaska's mayor, Frank Kelty, said
