WASHINGTON — Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum traveled to New Mexico Tuesday to announce the emergency withdrawal and transfer of administrative jurisdiction over approximately 109,651 acres of federal land along the U.S.-Mexico border. The land will be transferred to the Department of the Army for a period of three years, subject to valid existing […]
On Sunday night, the Alaska State Troopers received a report of an overdue Piper PA-12 Supercruiser aircraft that had not returned as scheduled. Initial information led troopers to believe that the location of the downed aircraft was either Tustumena Lake or the Kenai Mountains east of Homer. The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center and the Coast […]
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Alaska Army National Guard officer surmounts combat trauma to command infantry battalion JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — “I wasn’t going to leave that fight unless it was in a body bag.” Alaska Army National Guard Lt. Col. Luke Bushatz, 297th Regional Support Group operations officer and former 1st Battalion, 297th Infantry Regiment commander, made the […]