JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska –Alaska Army National Guard members are deploying to St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, in order to provide operational and sustainment support in the aftermath of Hurricanes Maria and Irma. More than fifty members assigned to the 297th Forward Support Company received word of their impending support of the humanitarian mission last […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska—The Alaska Air National Guard is stepping up to assist with Hurricane Harvey humanitarian disaster relief operations. The 176th Wing deployed 21 Airmen in one of their C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft, en route to Fort Hood, Texas this morning. Two aircrews from the 249th Airlift Squadron and 13 Guardian Angels from […]
A draft memo written by John Kelly, the Secretary of Homeland Security and obtained by the Associated Press outlines a Trump proposal to mobilize up to 100,000 National Guardsmen to participate in the round-up of unauthorized aliens within the U.S. borders, it is being reported on Friday. It has been reported by several news outlets […]
WASHINGTON—North Korea is threatening to take “physical action” after the U.S. and Seoul announced plans for deployment of a sophisticated missile defense system in South Korea. Pyongyang made the threat Monday, several days after Washington and Seoul revealed plans to use the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system – THAAD – on the Korean peninsula […]