Microkhan by Brendan I. Koerner

Entries Tagged as 'Greenland'

Hazardous Duty in Thule

January 10th, 2012 · 1 Comment

This memoir by the former bassist for Barbara Allen and the Tennessee Hot Pants includes a great vignette about playing Greenland’s Thule Air Force Base, where young men once scanned the skies for incoming Soviet ICBMs. Deprived of female companionship for months at a time, and surrounded by little but shiny white nothingness for most […]

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The Overlook Hotel Times Twelve

April 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments

One of my great regrets was not bringing a camera on my 1999 trip to the heart of the Greenland ice sheet. I was there doing a freelance piece on the Air National Guard unit responsible for resupplying polar scientific missions; we spent three days on the ice, learning how to survive in the event […]

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