GAMBELL (ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND), Alaska – On June 22, 1955, two Russian MiG-15s from Siberia shot down a U.S. Navy P2V-5 Neptune plane flying a routine maritime patrol from Kodiak out over the Bering Sea. After it crashed in flames on St. Lawrence Island, 16 Alaska National Guardsmen from the First Scout Battalion mounted an […]
HEADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY ALASKA, JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – This Friday a U.S. Army Alaska noncommissioned officer will receive the Army’s highest honor a soldier can receive for an act of valor in a non-combat situation. Staff Sgt. Joshaua J. Schneiderman of the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, will be awarded […]
Palmer, AK – The heroism of Matanuska Electric Association linemen recently gained the organization the prestigious 2015 Safety Heroism Award by the Northwest Public Power Association. The Safety Heroism Award recognizes member cooperatives who display acts of unselfish, voluntary assistance in life threatening situations where significant injury would have occurred but for the help offered. […]
President Obama, on Thursday afternoon, presented the nation’s highest military honor, the Medal of Honor to Cpl. William “Kyle” Carpenter in the Eat Room of the White House. 24-year-old Cpl Carpenter, along with Lance Cpl Nicholas Eufrazio, were assigned to a sandbag fortification atop a building in a small village in Helmand province on November […]