JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Command Sgt. Maj. Marc Petersen assumed the state command sergeant major position for the Alaska Army National Guard effective Aug. 1, bringing with him a career that has spanned three decades and multiple continents. Petersen’s story begins around 1973, not more than 10 miles from his new office within the […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Service members from the Alaska National Guard and U.S. Army Alaska worked together to perform a sequential airborne drop of two Small Unit Support Vehicles from an Alaska Air National Guard C-17 Globemaster III onto Malamute drop zone on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Sept. 16. The sequential drop was the first […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON — Airmen with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued three people in Cook Inlet on Friday morning, the three were stranded on a sandbar in the mud flats about six miles southeast of Fire Island. The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center had received the call from the Anchorage Fire Department at […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Staff Sgt. Jamie Haines, an Airman with the 212th Rescue Squadron and Spc. Tadhg Nakada, a Soldier with the 207th Aviation Battalion, competed in South American Military Ski Championships and International Ski biathlon Competition at the Army of Chile Mountain School in Portillo, Chile, last week. The biathlon event is […]