JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON — The 176th Wing hosted Big Brothers Big Sisters of Alaska leadership during a March 13 wing tour at the wing’s JBER campus. Alaska Air National Guard Brig. Gen. Anthony Stratton, 176th Wing commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Shawn Arnzen, 176th Maintenance Group senior enlisted leader, spoke with BBBSAK CEO Jill Richardson […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON — The 176th Communications Flight hosted a ceremony that redesignated them from a flight to a squadron March 3, 2024, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Communications Airmen provide various communication services to support military operations including cyber operations, deployable communications, network operations and information technology support among others. The change from flight to […]
On Wednesday morning Alaska State Troopers responded to a Wasilla residence after receiving a report of a disturbance at that location. Ultimately Southcentral SWAT was activated and responded to the incident. After receiving the disturbance report that said 45-year-old Richard Hacker “was actively destroying his family member’s residence and filling it with natural gas,” Troopers […]
On Wednesday, Alaska State Troopers reported that they had yet again arrested 35-year-old Fairbanks man, Thomas Charles Watega, this time for Violating Conditions of Release and Unlawful Contact. He had been recently taken into custody for Sexual Abuse of a Minor in an instance involving a 16-year-old who worked at a Fairbanks store where he […]