JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of 176th Wing rescued two individuals reported overdue from a river inner tubing trip near Trapper Creek July 24. A father of one of the teens contacted the Alaska State Troopers who requested assistance from the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center at JBER. The AKRCC then requested […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON– In May, the 177th Civil Engineer Squadron led a Prime Base Engineer Emergency Force (BEEF) training week at Camp Mad Bull on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER), including civil engineers from the 108th Wing, 111th Attack Wing, and 176th Wing from the New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Alaska Air National Guard, respectively. The exercise began […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of the 176th Wing rescued a fallen ice climber Jan. 2 at Chugach State Park near Anchorage. Alaska Air National Guard Tech. Sgt. Katie Magnuson, Alaska Rescue Coordination Center search-and-rescue senior controller, said the Alaska State Troopers requested assistance from the AKRCC reporting that the climber fell […]
With the difficulties presented by COVID-19, the Alaska National Guard once again managed to spread joy to remote villages in difficult times. This year’s iteration of Op Santa brought the Christmas spirit to the villages of Birch Creek, Stevens Village, and Nanwalek. Due to COVID-19 precautionary measures, the Guardsmen and volunteers delivered the gifts to […]