JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Besides her distinctively mottled Canadian Disruptive Pattern uniform and a habit of pronouncing lieutenant as “left-tenant,” there is nothing differentiating Royal Canadian Air Force Capt. Elyse O’Brien, 176th Air Defense Squadron air battle manager, from her fellow “Top Rock” squadron members. While monitoring her radar-display scope directing F-22 Raptor fighters, O’Brien […]
EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska—Clear Air Force Station, a remote military installation about 75 miles southwest of Fairbanks, was officially renamed to Clear Space Force Station during a ceremony June 15. The renaming was part of ongoing efforts to develop the Space Force, the United States’ sixth military branch, while identifying those Air Force […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Four KC-135 Stratotankers and more than two hundred active-duty U.S. Air Force personnel will join the Alaska Air National Guard’s 168th Wing, Guardians of the Last Frontier, to provide aerial refueling capability for the United States Air Force in the Arctic region and around the world. Acting Secretary of the […]
Chuck Yeager, the U.S. military pilot who became the first person to break the sound barrier in 1947, has died at the age of 97. His death was announced late Monday night on his official Twitter page by his second wife, Victoria. “An incredible life well lived, America’s greatest Pilot, & a legacy of […]
