JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Two Russian Tu-95 Bears and two Chinese H-6 Badgers with Su-30 and Su-35 Flanker fighter escorts speared across the sky July 24, 2024, in formation over the northern Pacific careening toward the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone and bringing the nuclear-capable long-range bombers closer to U.S. sovereign airspace. The combined […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guard Airmen of 176th Wing saved two lives after two missions Feb. 15 and 16. The first mission opened Feb. 15 in response to a request for assistance from the Alaska State Troopers to the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center at JBER. An individual sustained a suspected broken […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON — The Alaska Air National Guard’s 176th Wing rescued eight individuals during four rescue missions in Alaska and Yukon Territory between Jan. 26 and Jan. 31. A 210th Rescue Squadron HH-60G Pave Hawk and a 211th Rescue Squadron HC-130J Combat King II, both with 212th Rescue Squadron pararescuemen (PJs) onboard, responded Jan. […]
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 […]