KOTLIK, Alaska-Frigid winds sweep east from the Bering Sea, blowing through a village is as common to Alaska as it is unique to the rest of the United States.
While Mother Nature served up 40-mph winds and 40-below temperatures, a CH-47 helicopter delivered Arctic Care 2001, a military veterinary team, which included Army Reservists, that provided service to the remotest parts of the 49th state, earlier this year.
Accompanying the team on the 4th Battalion, 123rd Aviation Regiment's Chinook is Alexi Michaels, a Yupik Indian acting as translator and middleman to the Kotlik tribe. Peering through the aircraft's window, three soldiers saw miles of ice-covered landscape and …
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