JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Conner, a member of the 297th Infantry Battalion medical platoon, participated in Arctic Eagle 2020 at the search and extraction mass casualty simulation venue at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, Feb. 25. At this venue, military members from the Marine Corps, Air Force, […]
China’s health care system is struggling to cope with the surging number of patients infected by the deadly coronavirus despite that Chinese President Xi Jingping has re-emerged in public to call for greater confidence in his government. The death toll Tuesday totaled 1,018 worldwide among the more than 43,000 confirmed infections; 974 deaths, […]
Two persons died in a two-vehicle collision on the Parks Highway on Saturday afternoon according to Alaska State Troopers. Troopers responded to mile 61 of the Parks Highway to discover that two passengers in a small 2-door coupe died as the result of a head-on collision with a full-sized pickup truck operated by a […]
HEADQUARTERS, U.S. ARMY ALASKA, FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska – An Arctic Dustoff crew from C Company, 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment closed out 2019 and began the new year with a mission to assist survivors from a small plane crash. The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson forwarded the request for assistance just […]