JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – On June 22, 1955, two Russian MiG 15’s from Siberia shot down a U.S. Navy plane flying a routine maritime patrol over the Bering Sea. It crash-landed on an ice shelf prompting fourteen Guardsmen from the First Scout Battalion to mount a rescue mission saving everyone on board. On July […]
Photo: The Douglas World Cruisers above Seward, Alaska. National Archives
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The Alaska Army National Guard’s Golf Company, 2-211th General Support Aviation Battalion will conduct its federal, annual training requirements in western Alaska this year from April 30 to May 12. The timing coincides with the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management’s River Watch which provides aerial surveillance and real-time […]
Break-up flood potential above average due to high snow load, cold temperatures, and thick river ice JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Due to above-average snowfall, infrequent thaw/freeze episodes, and thick, in-place ice, the ice-jam flood potential for several interior Alaskan rivers is above average this spring. The Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management has […]