According to the trooper dispatch, at 10:46 am on Saturday, Alaska Wildlife Troopers received a report of an injured snowmachiner in Hatcher Pass near mile 15 of the Palmer-Fishhook Road. AWT says the initial report indicated the snowmachiner, identified as 40-year-old Kevin Unks was with a party that had traversed two avalanche-laden areas before Unks […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — To establish the Air National Guard Sept. 15, 1952, in the Alaska territory before statehood, the effort required a single-minded Alaska sourdough and aerospace visionary in Col. Larry “Lars” Johnson. According to “The Guard” by 1st Lt. James Richardson, Johnson had worked as a miner at Independence Mine near Palmer before […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Next week, GCI customers can access live coverage of the 2021 Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) Convention and special Best of Quyana Alaska programming. Viewers can tune into this year’s event Monday, Dec. 13 and Tuesday, Dec. 14 on GCI Channel 1, available on both cable and through Yukon TV. The 2021 […]
DPS Aircraft Operations Increased 42% as the Pandemic Reduced Commercial Air Options Transporting prisoners across Alaska’s vast distances is a challenge on a good day, but when you add dangerous winter storms and the COVID-19 outbreak, most would call the task near impossible. However, this challenge doesn’t stop the nearly 400 Alaska State and Wildlife […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Soldiers of the Alaska Army National Guard Medical Detachment hosted a COVID-19 vaccination drive Jan. 24, 2021, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson as part of ongoing efforts to vaccinate the force. Dozens of Soldiers made their way to the JBER Armory’s drill hall floor by unit in order to facilitate social […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of 176th Wing participated in the Operation Noble Defender search-and-rescue/personnel recovery (SAR/PR) exercise Jan. 19 to 22, 2021, in Southcentral Alaska. Noble Defender is a North American Aerospace Defense Command Arctic air-defense operation. “The Noble Defender exercise series seeks to support a variety of campaign objectives […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of the 176th Wing rescued a fallen ice climber Jan. 2 at Chugach State Park near Anchorage. Alaska Air National Guard Tech. Sgt. Katie Magnuson, Alaska Rescue Coordination Center search-and-rescue senior controller, said the Alaska State Troopers requested assistance from the AKRCC reporting that the climber fell […]
Once again this summer North American Aerospace Defense Command F-22 fighter aircraft, supported by KC-135 air refuelers intercepted Tu-142 Russian maritime patrol aircraft within the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone late this week. In a first for the year, Russia sent in three groups of the aircraft who stayed in the zone for over […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Responding to a request for assistance last night from the Alaska State Troopers, the Alaska Air National Guard’s 176th Wing rescued an injured hiker. Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th and 212th rescue squadrons rescued the distressed hiker who was stranded on Pioneer Peak, a mountain that […]