JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued three hikers from the Bomber Glacier area near Hatchers Pass, Sept. 4. One of the hikers contacted the Alaska State Troopers via cellphone after another hiker had fallen and broken his leg. “One of them climbed up […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Approximately 50 Soldiers with the Alaska Army National Guard’s 761st Military Police Battalion returned home to various parts of Alaska Aug. 30, after a nine-month deployment to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Guardsmen deployed last November to Guantanamo Bay in support of Operation Enduring Freedom as part of Joint Task Force […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th, 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons assisted with the transportation of a pregnant woman in labor from Nulato, Alaska, July 28. The woman was 25 weeks pregnant with twins and had gone into early labor. The urgent nature of her condition required that she […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Army National Guard Soldiers with 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment rescued a distressed hiker near Inner Lake George Thursday. A four-member crew of a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter were preparing for a routine training flight when the Army Guard’s flight operations center notified them about the mission at approximately […]