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Temporary modification to Visitor Center location

By Eve Baker | Fort Wainwright media relations on Jul 16, 2024 Events/Notices, Featured

FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Due to upcoming construction at the main gate to Fort Wainwright on Gaffney Road, Visitor Center operations will relocate to Montgomery Gate from July 22 to August 22. There will also be no temporary weapons storage at any gate during that period, but Gaffney Gate will remain open 24/7 during the construction. […]

Historic nighttime parachute drop conducted over Fort Wainwright

By Eve Baker | Fort Wainwright media relations on Mar 27, 2023 Featured, General News, Interior Alaska

FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska — In a historic first for Ladd Army Airfield, in the early hours of March 26, approximately 400 paratroopers from the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 11th Airborne Division, and several allied nations parachuted onto Fort Wainwright. The purpose of the jump, part of a Joint Forcible Entry Operation practical exercise, […]