JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON — Suspended in her parachute harness, an F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot descended toward the frigid Interior Alaska landscape. In the dead of winter, the temperature plummeted to 35 degrees below zero and cast a blanket of ice fog obscuring the ground. Though the pilot is trained and equipped to survive for a short […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The Alaska National Guard strengthened operational cooperation with Alaskan Command through an Oct. 21 signing of a memorandum of agreement that establishes “a formal coordination relationship” between the two organizations. As stated in the MOA, the purpose of the document is to detail the relationship between ALCOM and the Alaska […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of 211th Rescue Squadron assisted District 17 Coast Guardsmen rescue a pilot of a downed Cessna 207 Nov. 21 at Iliamna Lake. The Coast Guard dispatched an HH-60 Jayhawk from Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, and the 176th Operations Group search and rescue duty officer dispatched a […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The office of the Department of the Air Force Inspector General recognized an Alaska Air National Guardsman as the Lt. Gen. Howard W. Leaf Award winner in the wing-level officer category. Lt. Col Eric Manewal, 176th Wing Inspector General director of Inspections, is the first Guardsman to earn the award […]