Outreach builds relationships for potential future partnerships Photo: Carter Boyers, 9, checks out an Alaska Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter at the Galena airstrip. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Maj. John Callahan) GALENA, Alaska — Brig. Gen. Torrence Saxe, commander of the Alaska National Guard and commissioner of the Alaska Department of […]
An Alaska Air National Guard chopper plucked an injured pilot and passenger from the west side of Cook Inlet after a crash there on Wednesday evening according to troopers. At 7:16 pm on Wednesday, pilot, 65-year-old Michael Eugene Beckwith contacted authorities to inform them that he had crashed his Stinson 108-3 during take-off near the […]
Imagery: Satellite imagery of Hurricane Dorian. Image-NOAA Hurricane Dorian is expected to strengthen into “a major hurricane later today,” the National Hurricane Center said Friday. “Dorian is likely to remain an extremely dangerous hurricane while it moves near the northwestern Bahamas and approaches the Florida peninsula through the weekend,” the center said. Florida Governor Ron […]
The Alaska Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment, supports the McKinley Fire suppression mission Aug. 19, 2019, with two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters. The helicopters dropped more than 100,000 gallons of water during a total of 9.5 flight hours in support of this mission. (U.S. Army National Guard video courtesy of First […]