JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen with the 176th Wing rescued an individual suffering a traumatic hand injury at Eareckson Air Station on October 9. The installation sits approximately 1,640 west of Anchorage on the remote island of Shemya. The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center opened the mission in response to a medical […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of 176th Wing rescued five distressed boaters stuck in sea ice June 16 about 10 miles east of Deering on the Kotzebue Sound. The boaters used VHF radio to call for help, which was received by Deering residents who called Alaska State Troopers. The […]
Alaska Air National Guard rescue Airmen of 176th Wing rescued an injured paraglider March 8 at Hatcher Pass. The Alaska State Troopers requested assistance through the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center who passed the request to 176th Wing. The wing search and rescue duty officer ordered the launch of a 210th Rescue Squadron HH-60G Pave Hawk […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The office of the Department of the Air Force Inspector General recognized an Alaska Air National Guardsman as the Lt. Gen. Howard W. Leaf Award winner in the wing-level officer category. Lt. Col Eric Manewal, 176th Wing Inspector General director of Inspections, is the first Guardsman to earn the award […]