JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Two Soldiers from the 49th Missile Defense Battalion in Fort Greeley won the title of “Best Warrior” in the 2015 Best Warrior Competition here Aug. 24. Alaska Army National Guardsmen Sgt. Gerardo Lopez and Spc. Yamil Ramirez, both military policemen from the 49th Missile Defense Battalion, won the competition in the […]
Shortly after 1 a.m. Alaska time, the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command, as part of the Defense Department’s Conventional Prompt Global Strike technology development program, conducted a flight test of the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon from the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska. Due to an anomaly, the test was terminated near the […]
Four people involved in a single engine plane crash at mile 243.5 of the Dalton Highway were transported out of the area via a strip nearby after workers on a nearby bridge saw the plane go down and notified the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company at pump station 4. The Pipeline Company sent medical personnel and other […]
Commercial fishermen in Alaska affected by the 2012 salmon fisheries disaster for Yukon Chinook, Kuskokwim Chinook and Cook Inlet salmon will share in $7.8 million in grants announced last week by NOAA Fisheries Alaska Region. The award includes direct payments to commercial fishermen, and breaks out as $3.2 million for the Yukon-Kuskokwim region and $4.6 million […]