On Sunday night, the Alaska State Troopers received a report of an overdue Piper PA-12 Supercruiser aircraft that had not returned as scheduled. Initial information led troopers to believe that the location of the downed aircraft was either Tustumena Lake or the Kenai Mountains east of Homer. The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center and the Coast […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska —During the culminating training event of exercise Special Operation Forces Arctic Medic 2025, Alaska Army National Guard aviators assigned to Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 211th General Support Aviation Battalion landed a HH-60M Black Hawk helicopter on the platform of an Alaska rail car that was staged on a bridge above the […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON — The Alaska Air National Guard’s 176th Wing rescued eight individuals during four rescue missions in Alaska and Yukon Territory between Jan. 26 and Jan. 31. A 210th Rescue Squadron HH-60G Pave Hawk and a 211th Rescue Squadron HC-130J Combat King II, both with 212th Rescue Squadron pararescuemen (PJs) onboard, responded Jan. […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The Alaska National Guard strengthened operational cooperation with Alaskan Command through an Oct. 21 signing of a memorandum of agreement that establishes “a formal coordination relationship” between the two organizations. As stated in the MOA, the purpose of the document is to detail the relationship between ALCOM and the Alaska […]