BEAUFORT SEA – U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB 20) crew and embarked researchers ventured onto a floe of multi-year ice for the first of three multi-instrument ice stations in the Arctic Ocean Basin late July and early August. As the Healy carefully approached and maintained position alongside an ice floe above 77 degrees north, […]
SEATTLE — The Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB 20) departed Seattle, Tuesday, for a months-long Arctic deployment. The crew aboard Healy, a 420-foot icebreaker, will provide U.S. surface presence in the Arctic, conduct high latitude science and research missions, engage in exercises and professional exchanges with foreign partners, and conduct other operations as directed throughout […]
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, […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Three Soldiers were killed and one injured when two AH-64 Apache helicopters from the 1st Attack Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment at Fort Wainwright crashed Thursday near Healy. The helicopters were returning from a training mission when they collided in flight. Two soldiers were declared dead at the scene of the […]