JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska— Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th, 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued two hikers from Copper Mountain in the Lake Clark National Park and Preserve Aug. 31. According to the National Park Service, its Alaska Region Communication Center received a distress call around 7:30 p.m. reporting that a hiker […]
EAGLE RIVER, Alaska—The Alaska Air National Guard located a missing five-year-old boy on Mount Baldy Monday evening and successfully reunited him with his family. Alaska State Troopers called the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center shortly before 4 p.m. to request assistance in locating the missing child. The RCC asked for the assets of the Alaska Air National […]
CAMP DENALI, Alaska—The Alaska National Guard team is set to tackle the trail of the Iron Dog, billed as the “world’s longest, toughest snowmobile race,†ready to leave Big Lake Feb. 17 enroute to Nome, then onto Fairbanks in a 2,000-mile race.
CAMP DENALI, Alaska — The Guardsman who has been at the helm of the enlisted forces for the Alaska National Guard is leaving Alaska headed for the military command that defends America’s homeland.