Divestiture program continues to benefit communities across rural Alaska JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The Alaska Army National Guard Divestiture Program handed over its 37th site, a Federal Scout Readiness Center built during the Cold War, to Gambell’s Sivuqaq Incorporated in May. The St. Lawrence Island community will continue to use the building as the […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — There’s something indispensable about returning to your roots, like an intrinsic yearning that needs to be filled. And who knows yearning better than children awaiting Christmas? Operation Santa Claus answered that calling when its volunteers and partners delivered gifts, fresh fruit, school supplies and Santa Claus to more than 250 […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Bringing an appropriate end to Veterans’ Day here, thirty-two men and women of the Alaska Air National Guard’s 176th Wing returned to their homes after a month-long deployment to Europe, Nov. 11-12. The Guardsmen from the Wing’s 144th Airlift Squadron, along with support personnel from the Wing’s Maintenance Group and […]