JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Rescue crews from the Alaska Air and Army National Guard navigated across 1,850 miles of southcentral, southwest and northeast Alaska, saving 10 people in four civil search and rescue missions and one medical evacuation mission. The first call for assistance came to the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center from Alaska State […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — During a complex medevac involving three 176th Wing Guardian Angel teams, two HC-130J Combat King II aircraft and one HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter, a combat rescue officer and a pararescueman parachuted into Pilot Station, March 8, to reach a patient in critical condition. Nearing midnight, March 7, the Alaska Rescue […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The 176th Air Defense Squadron is integral to Alaskan North American Aerospace Defense Region positive identification, tracking and routine intercept of Russian aircraft operating within the Alaska Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). Across the U.S. and Canada, NORAD units track and positively identify foreign military aircraft that enter the ADIZ. […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen overcame a range of severe weather conditions to successfully accomplish a life-saving medical evacuation for a pediatric trauma patient Feb. 22-23. Midafternoon Feb. 22, the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center received a call for assistance from the Nome emergency services after severe winter weather prevented civilian air […]