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, […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Helicopters and personnel from the 1-52nd General Support Aviation Battalion (GSAB), normally stationed at Fort Wainwright, practiced sling load and long-range flight operations around Prudhoe Bay Aug. 17-26. Two UH-60 Black Hawk and two CH-47 Chinook helicopters with about 25 support personnel staged from the Deadhorse Airport while flying missions […]