HEADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY ALASKA, JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Residents in and around JBER and Eagle River may hear loud noises created by live-firing of mortars up to 120 millimeters as the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division conducts a mortar range Jan. 7-14. Residents should expect to hear noises intermittently throughout […]
HEADQUARTERS U.S. ARMY ALASKA, JOINT BASE-ELMENDORF RICHARDSON, Alaska – Modern Army Combatives trainers here are putting select soldiers from both JBER and Fort Wainwright through their paces this week to select a team to represent U.S. Army Alaska in a Lower 48 tournament next month. Fourteen fighters, two in each of seven weight classes, will […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Service members from the Alaska National Guard and U.S. Army Alaska worked together to perform a sequential airborne drop of two Small Unit Support Vehicles from an Alaska Air National Guard C-17 Globemaster III onto Malamute drop zone on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Sept. 16. The sequential drop was the first […]
Palmer, Alaska – With the upcoming aviation restrictions related to President Obama’s visit to Alaska, Rep. Shelley Hughes wants the thousands of Alaskans who are recreational drone owners to know that small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are not permitted in general to be flown within 5 miles of airports, over crowds or near heavily traveled […]