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 […]
176th CES combats terrorism around the globe JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Last December, 45 Alaska Air Guardsmen assigned to the 176th Civil Engineer Squadron deployed to Kuwait, Niger, Qatar and United Arab Emirates. “What makes this deployment unique is the size of the team that we sent,” said Lt. Col Kass Larson, the […]