JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — For Airmen of the 249th Airlift Squadron “Arctic Terns” and Soldiers of the 297th Regional Support Group, the C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft they were traveling on was a veritable time machine. Leaving July 1 from Yokota Air Base, Japan, C-17 Tail No. 0168, Flight No. Reach 257, arrived at […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — His boat swamped, a nasty Western Alaska storm taking hold, and hypothermia rapidly setting in, a stranded boater needed a lifeline – and fast. The man had attempted an ill-fated odyssey from Dillingham to Togiak – 68 miles apart by air – in nothing more than a skiff. Alaska, via […]
