JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON — Alaska Air National Guard Airmen of 176th Wing rescued an injured snowmachine rider Jan. 15 about 20 miles northeast of Valdez. The snowmachiner activated an SOS signal on his two-way satellite communication device prompting the Alaska State Troopers to request assistance from the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center at JBER. The RCC […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of 176th Wing rescued an injured skier Nov. 16 near Arctic Valley about eight miles northeast of downtown Anchorage. The party used a cell phone to call the Alaska State Troopers. Due to poor weather, the Troopers requested assistance from the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center at […]
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 […]
The Coast Guard medevaced a 40-year-old fisherman with a back injury from fishing vessel Atlantico 40 miles west of Cold Bay, Alaska, Sept. 16. Coast Guard courtesy video. KODIAK, Alaska — The Coast Guard medevaced an injured fisherman approximately 40 miles west of Cold Bay, Alaska, Wednesday. At 2:30 p.m. an Air Station Kodiak […]