JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — An electronic sensor on the more than 800-mile stretch of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System was just triggered. A potential leak is happening, so you send a team out to respond. When the team shows up, it was a false alarm, but then another alarm goes off, then another, and before […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — While in Valdez, taking part in Exercise Arctic Eagle 2018, Guardsmen from the 103rd Civil Support Team, Alaska National Guard, and Washington National Guard Homeland Response Force worked with first responders after a real-life diesel fuel tanker truck crashed near a waterway. The tanker truck had exited the roadway and […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Keeping an eighty-thousand pound aircraft flying safely doesn’t just happen on accident; rather, precision machines the size of a giant blue whale are kept soaring safely through the skies by the dedication of dozens of Airmen, not the least of whom are crew chiefs. Having grown up in a Guard […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — The Alaska National Guard will host a guided discussion wargame, “Arctic Stardust 2018,” with military and civilian senior leaders at the National Guard armory here Feb. 6. Maj. Gen. Laurie Hummel, adjutant general of the Alaska National Guard and commissioner for the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, will […]