JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — An Alaska National Guard task force of five soldiers departed Fairbanks, May 12, 2022 for the Interior Alaska community of Manley Hot Springs after the region received significant flooding from the Tanana River, prompting a state disaster declaration on May 7 for the Yukon Koyukuk Regional Education Attendance Area. On […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The Alaska National Guard’s Counterdrug Support Program, a joint unit of Air and Army National Guardsmen, supports and partners with the state’s Office of Substance Misuse and Addiction Prevention in addressing a rising trend of opioid overdoses in the state of Alaska. With the initiative Project HOPE, the abbreviated form […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The Alaska Army National Guard’s Golf Company, 2-211th General Support Aviation Battalion will conduct its federal, annual training requirements in western Alaska this year from April 30 to May 12. The timing coincides with the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management’s River Watch which provides aerial surveillance and real-time […]
Break-up flood potential above average due to high snow load, cold temperatures, and thick river ice JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Due to above-average snowfall, infrequent thaw/freeze episodes, and thick, in-place ice, the ice-jam flood potential for several interior Alaskan rivers is above average this spring. The Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management has […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON – Across the vast state of Alaska, small parcels of federal land host buildings used by the Alaska Army National Guard after World War II and during the Cold War. Now that these properties are no longer needed by the military, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Alaska District is working […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The Alaska Army National Guard’s Counterdrug Support Program and a LUH-71 Lakota helicopter crew of the 207th Aviation Battalion assisted in a drug bust in Southcentral Alaska last winter in coordination with the Drug Enforcement Administration, Alaska State Troopers, and U.S. Postal Inspection Service. “The mission of Counterdrug is to […]
According to the trooper dispatch, at 10:46 am on Saturday, Alaska Wildlife Troopers received a report of an injured snowmachiner in Hatcher Pass near mile 15 of the Palmer-Fishhook Road. AWT says the initial report indicated the snowmachiner, identified as 40-year-old Kevin Unks was with a party that had traversed two avalanche-laden areas before Unks […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Four members of the Alaska Army National Guard’s Golf Company, Detachment 1, 2-211th General Support Aviation Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment, received the 2021 Rescue of the Year award from DUSTOFF Association in early February for their efforts in a rescue last fall. At approximately 1:30 p.m. Sept. 15, 2021, a […]
Alaska State Troopers were notified on Sunday of an ELT activation from an aircraft located east of the Parks Highway near Willow and Talkeetna. The aircraft that emitted the signal would not be located until Thursday. Investigators could not locate any distress calls or reports of overdue aircraft AST said. Beginning Sunday, the day the […]