HEADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY ALASKA, JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Soldiers from U.S. Army Alaska’s 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division will be firing 60mm mortars and 105mm howitzers into the Eagle River Flats Impact Area next week, beginning Dec. 8 and ending Dec. 11. Howitzers and mortars are indirect-fire weapons used by […]
HEADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY ALASKA, JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Col. Matthew McFarlane will relinquish command of the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division to Col. Scott A. Green in a change of command ceremony at JBER on Wednesday, Nov. 26 at 1 p.m. McFarlane has served as the commanding officer since December 2012. […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The Alaska Army National Guard received two rebuilt M-973 Small Unit Support Vehicles from the Red River Army Depot near Texarcana, Texas, Nov. 3. SUSVs are fully-tracked, all-terrain, amphibious vehicles designed to support platoon-sized units in arctic and mountainous conditions. The SUSV, originally named the Bandvagn 206, was developed by […]
HEADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY ALASKA, JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Fort Wainwright and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson were among 30 installations the Army studied in a recent Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Assessment for Army 2020 Force Structure Realignment to evaluate the environmental impacts of potential force reductions of active component soldiers and Army civilian employees. The Army determined […]