HEADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY ALASKA, JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Residents in and around JBER and Eagle River may hear loud noises created by live-firing of mortars up to 120 millimeters as the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division conducts a mortar range Jan. 7-14. Residents should expect to hear noises intermittently throughout […]
HEADQUARTERS U.S. ARMY ALASKA, JOINT BASE-ELMENDORF RICHARDSON, Alaska – Modern Army Combatives trainers here are putting select soldiers from both JBER and Fort Wainwright through their paces this week to select a team to represent U.S. Army Alaska in a Lower 48 tournament next month. Fourteen fighters, two in each of seven weight classes, will […]
HEADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY ALASKA, FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska – The first two AH-64 Apache helicopters for U.S. Army Alaska’s Aviation Task Force are set to arrive at Ladd Army Airfield here Thursday afternoon. The new helicopters will arrive inside a U.S. Air Force C-5 Galaxy, the largest transport aircraft in the Air Force inventory. The helicopters […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – U.S. Army Alaska will host an inactivation ceremony for the 2nd Engineer Brigade on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson’s Pershing Field, at 1 p.m. Friday, May 15. The brigade is inactivating as part of the U.S. Army’s downsizing efforts to restructure into a leaner, more adaptable fighting force. This will be the […]