[dropcap]J[/dropcap]OINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued one distressed individual Jan. 29 at the Yetna River Roadhouse. According to Alaska Air National Guard 1st Lt. Daniel Warren, Alaska Rescue Coordination Center, the mission was opened in response to a request for assistance from […]
[dropcap]J[/dropcap]OINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued a pilot of a Piper PA-22 aircraft Jan. 22 at Chickaloon Flats after the plane was damaged. According to Alaska Air National Guard Capt. Wesley Ladd, Alaska Rescue Coordination Center, the alert notification came from activation […]
Aircrew of a 211th Rescue Squadron HC-130J Combat King II and Pararescuemen of the 212th Rescue Squadron survey the damage of a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Southcentral Alaska Nov. 30. The 176th Wing Guardsmen surveyed Anchorage, Wasilla, Palmer, Whittier, Seward, Valdez and Homer. JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — In the cold and dark early-morning hours […]
Fairbanks’ air quality issues began in 1901, when shallow water grounded a gold rush entrepreneur. That August day, when a hired steamship could take them no farther up the Chena River, E.T. Barnette and his wife found themselves deposited on a sandy shoreline in the middle of Alaska. Gold miners soon found Barnette had sacks […]