JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Members of the Alaska Air National Guard’s 176th Wing and the active duty Air Force’s 3rd Wing witnessed the unveiling of a new tail flash here Oct. 1 on the C-17 Globemaster IIIs assigned to the 176th Wing’s 144th Airlift Squadron. Current and former 144th AS Airmen took a moment […]
A JBER man was critically injured while on a bear hunt with a partner above Carter Lake on Friday and was transported to Anchorage via Lifemed, troopers report. The Soldotna Public Safety Communications Center received a notification via an In-Reach device at 12:08 am on Saturday morning reporting that two men were in distress. Alaska […]
HEADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY ALASKA, JBER – Soldiers from JBER and Fort Wainwright will take part in a large military training exercise at the Donnelly Training Area near Fort Greeley in October. Arctic Anvil 19-01 is a joint, multi-national, force-on-force training exercise designed to provide the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team a tough, realistic training event […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Soldiers with the Alaska Army National Guard’s 1-207 Aviation Battalion rescued three individuals shortly after 10 p.m. Sept. 3 about 20 miles northwest of St. Mary’s after their plane crashed. The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center at JBER was contacted by a commercial air taxi service after the pilot of the […]