JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The Alaska Army National Guard hosted what was most likely their first-ever community event off base when they deactivated the 297th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade and activated the 297th Regional Support Group during a Saturday ceremony at the Delaney Park Strip located in downtown Anchorage. Additionally, Alaska Gov. Bill Walker signed the […]
The Alaska National Guard announced on Thursday that they will formally name the National Guard hanger in Kotzebue for long-time leader and former National Guard Adjutant General John W. Schaeffer on Tuesday, August 9th. General Schaeffer, who was born and raised in Kotzebue, enlisted in the Alaska Army National Guard in 1957 and became a […]
HEADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY ALASKA, JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – This Friday a U.S. Army Alaska noncommissioned officer will receive the Army’s highest honor a soldier can receive for an act of valor in a non-combat situation. Staff Sgt. Joshaua J. Schneiderman of the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, will be awarded […]
Tuesday saw the passing of 100-year-old Galena elder, Sidney Huntington, he died peacefully surrounded by friends, family, and community members. Born in Hughes, along the Koyukuk River in 1915, he would live his first five years 90 miles downstream at Hagatzakaket until his mother died and he and his siblings went to the Anvik Mission. […]