The United States Army:

Much of Alaska’s native population is dispersed across great swaths of land in some of the toughest and most challenging environments Alaska has to offer.

Located 400 miles northwest of Fairbanks and 20 miles north of the Arctic Circle is a small village in the Northwest Arctic Borough of Alaska called Noorvik, which means, “A place to move to,” in the native Inupiat tongue.

Noorvik, comprising a population of roughly 680 people, was not where Army Staff Sgt. Samantha Dehling wanted to stay…

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