ST. MARY’S — “Your left. Your left. Your left, right, left.” As a young girl, Tech. Sgt. Sharon Queenie remembers Guardsmen marching down the dirt road in Mountain Village with their ruck sacks strapped to their shoulders, singing cadences. A 20-mile stretch of road connects Mountain Village to Andreafski High School in St. Mary’s where […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons rescued a climber injured during a fall on April 1 near Glacier View about 80 miles northeast of Anchorage. Despite being attached to a belay line, the climber was injured during the fall when he collided with another member of his […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Alaska Air National Guardsmen of 210th, 211th, and 212th Rescue Squadrons medevac’d a critically ill patient April 4 at Little Diomede just two miles east of the Russian island of Big Diomede. The Norton Sound Regional Hospital in Nome requested assistance from the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center at JBER. The […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Monotonous beeps reverberated across the Joint Mobility Complex as Soldiers arriving to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson were scanned in for Reception, Staging, Onward movement and Integration ahead of 11th Airborne Division’s Joint Pacific Multi-National Readiness Center-Alaska 23-02 exercise. The Alaska Army National Guard’s 49th Personnel Detachment (Theater Gateway) and U.S. Army […]