FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Due to upcoming construction at the main gate to Fort Wainwright on Gaffney Road, Visitor Center operations will relocate to Montgomery Gate from July 22 to August 22. There will also be no temporary weapons storage at any gate during that period, but Gaffney Gate will remain open 24/7 during the construction. […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – The identities of the three Soldiers from 1st Attack Battalion, 25th Aviation at Fort Wainwright killed during a helicopter crash Thursday, April 27, near Healy, Alaska, have been released. Deceased are: Chief Warrant Officer 3 Christopher Robert Eramo, 39, of Oneonta, New York. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Kyle D. McKenna, […]
FAIRBANKS, Alaska – The University of Alaska Fairbanks and United States Army Garrison Alaska Fort Wainwright have entered into a beneficial partnership for environmental services that links the Army with higher education in the local community. Leaders from UAF and USAG Alaska met today at the university campus to formalize the partnership established by an […]
FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska — In a historic first for Ladd Army Airfield, in the early hours of March 26, approximately 400 paratroopers from the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 11th Airborne Division, and several allied nations parachuted onto Fort Wainwright. The purpose of the jump, part of a Joint Forcible Entry Operation practical exercise, […]