Alaskan brown bear nearly killed two US soldiersApex predator versus training army soldiers.A training session in a mountainous area in Anchorage, Alaska, almost turned into a tragedy on Thursday.Two US Army soldiers were injured after an attack by an aggressive brown bear.ARCTIC ENCOUNTER: 2 US Army soldiers injured by brown bear during Alaska training exercise — bear spray credited with saving their lives, officials say https://t.co/DHx7e4XyoK— Fox News US (@FoxUSNews) April 18, 2026The New York Post reported:“The incident happened Thursday as the soldiers were participating in a ‘land navigation training event’ in Arctic Valley, part of the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson’s training area.The soldiers were receiving medical care as of Friday, a military official told the Anchorage Daily News. Messages sent to base spokespersons were not immediately returned.”Two U.S. Army soldiers injured in bear attack https://t.co/TaBsrCd6bH— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) April 18, 2026The Army hasn’t released the soldiers’ conditions.It’s understood that both soldiers used pepper spray on the bear.“’The safety and well-being of our personnel is our highest priority’, Lt. Col. Jo Nederhoed, a spokesperson for the U.S. Army 11th Airborne Division, said in an email to the Anchorage Daily News.[…] The area near where the incident occurred has been closed to recreational activity by base officials, the department said.”The Elmendorf-Richardson base is located in an area where up to 350 black bears and 75 brown bears roam freely.Read more:After Another Fatal Attack in the Carpathian Mountains, Slovakia Set To Cull Hundreds of Bears Among Soaring ‘Overprotected’ Populations/*! This file is auto-generated */!function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i