Originally Posted by las
Fort McGilvery, Caine's Head, 7.5 miles down beach from Seward. Or you can take water taxi to North Beach, then it's a 2 mile walk. One emplacement covers the North Beach side approach to Seward. Another a couple hundred yards away on the other side covers the South Beach approach.

If my understanding is correct, they started with 155's, then got 6" guns, and a stand-down order the day before the 6's were to be fired... Too bad. That would have been fun!

Wiki has info on it.

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Ask KKAlaska about that hike...

Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.