JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The Alaska Army National Guard received two rebuilt M-973 Small Unit Support Vehicles from the Red River Army Depot near Texarcana, Texas, Nov. 3. SUSVs are fully-tracked, all-terrain, amphibious vehicles designed to support platoon-sized units in arctic and mountainous conditions. The SUSV, originally named the Bandvagn 206, was developed by […]
HEADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY ALASKA, JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Nearly 300 U.S. Army Alaska soldiers from three different units will return from Afghanistan to reunite with their friends and families at Fort Wainwright and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Tuesday, Nov. 18. At Fort Wainwright, the final group of Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment, […]
HEADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY ALASKA, JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Fort Wainwright and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson were among 30 installations the Army studied in a recent Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Assessment for Army 2020 Force Structure Realignment to evaluate the environmental impacts of potential force reductions of active component soldiers and Army civilian employees. The Army determined […]
The Alaska State Troopers report that a Palmer Grand Jury handed down indictments on Benjamin E. Wilson for Murder I, Murder II, Manslaughter, Kidnapping, Assault III and two counts of Coercion in the death of Leticia Faller and the kidnapping of her boyfriend, Torin Ford of Palmer on Thursday. It was 9:49 pm on Sunday night […]